Today Quotes
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On the plus side, death is one of the few things that can be done just as easily lying down.Woody Allen
Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when he has been rendered as artificially silent as a mute and as immovable as a paralytic. He is an individual annihilated, not disciplined.Maria Montessori
We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.Maria Montessori
To live content with small means, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich, to study hard, think quietly, talk gently, act frankly, to listen to stars and birds, to babes and sages, with open heart, to bear all cheerfully, do all bravely, await occasions, hurry never, in a word to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common, this is to be my symphony.William Henry Channing
A wise man can see more from the bottom of a well than a fool can from a mountain top.Unknown
Nobody trips over mountains. It is the small pebble that causes you to stumble. Pass all the pebbles in your path and you will find you have crossed the mountain.Unknown
The more you sweat in peace, the less you bleed in war.George Hyman Rickover
The greater difficulty, the more glory in surmounting it. Skillful pilots gain their reputation from storms and tempests.Epicures
Difficulties strengthen the mind, as labor does the body.Seneca
Difficulties show men what they are. In case of any difficulty remember that God has pitted you against a rough antagonist that you may be a conqueror, and this cannot be without toil.Epictetus