Wishing Lantern Quotes & Sayings

You can never out-give God. — Anonymous

It was never factually true that young people learn to read or do arithmetic primarily by being taught these things. These things are learned, but not really taught at all. Over-teaching interferes with learning, although the few who survive it may well come to imagine it was by an act of teaching. — John Taylor Gatto

Buddha is said to have given a "silent sermon" once during which he held up a flower and gazed at it. After a while, one of those present, a monk called Mahakasyapa, began to smile. He is said to have been the only one who had understood the sermon. According to legend, that smile (that is to say, realization) was handed down by twenty-eight successive masters and much later became the origin of Zen. — Eckhart Tolle

He glanced furtively up and down the hallway. "Hodge too. Everyone wants to talk to me. Except you, I bet you don't want to talk to me," said Jace.
"No," said Clary. "I want to eat. I'm starving. — Cassandra Clare

As soon as people decide to confront a problem, they realize that they are far more capable than they thought they were. — Paulo Coelho

But we need not fear that we can lose any thing by the progress of the soul. The soul may be trusted to the end. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Even if they had it in the streets, I wouldn't go. — Samuel Goldwyn