The sun, with all those planets revolving around it and dependent upon it, can still ripen a bunch of grapes as if it had nothing else in the universe to do.
–Galileo Galilei
Gardening is cheaper than therapy and you get tomatoes.
—Poster Slogan
Man—despite his artistic pretensions, his sophistication, and his many accomplishments—owes his existence to a six inch layer of topsoil and the fact that it rains.
—Unknown
The only moral lesson which is suited for a child–the most important lesson for every time of life–is this: ‘Never hurt anybody.’
—Jean-Jacques Rousseau
How others treat me is their path; how I react is mine.
–Dr. Wayne Dyer
I shall allow no man to belittle my soul by making me hate him.
–Booker T. Washington
I don’t have to attend every argument I’m invited to.
—Unknown
Hate is like drinking poison, hoping the other person will die.
–Rev. Marvin Wiley
Holding a grudge is letting someone live rent-free in your head.
–Esther Lederer
She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for that sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called ‘leaves’) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.
–Carl Sagan
Bookmark? You mean quitter strip?
—Unknown
They condemn what they do not understand.
–Cicero
The books that the world calls immoral are the books that show the world its own shame.
–Oscar Wilde
=CHANGE
It is not the strongest of the species that survive nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.
–Charles Darwin
A bend in the road, is not the end of the road…unless you fail to make the turn.
–Helen Keller
I cannot say whether things will get better if they change; what I can say is they must change if they are to get better.
–Georg C. Lichtenberg
=CHARACTER
Character matters. Researches concerned with academic-achievement gaps have begun to study, with increasing interest and enthusiasm, a set of personal qualities—often referred to as noncognitive skills, or character strengths—that include resilience, conscientiousness, optimism, self-control, and grit. These capacities generally aren’t captured by our ubiquitous standardized tests, but they seem to make a big difference in the academic success of children, especially low-income children.
—Paul Tough
In Japanese schools, the students don’t take any exams until they reach grade four (the age of 10). They just take small tests. It is believed that the goal for the first 3 years of school is not to judge the child’s knowledge or learning, but to establish good manners and to develop their character. Children are taught to respect other people and to be gentle to animals and nature. They also learn how to be generous, compassionate, and empathetic. Besides this, the kids are taught qualities like grit, self-control, and justice.
—novakdjokovicfoundation.org
You can easily judge the character of a man by how he treats those who can do nothing for him.
—Malcolm S. Forbes
The 12 Principles of Character: (1) honesty, (2) understanding, (3) compassion and empathy, (4) appreciation, (5) patience, (6) discipline, (7) fortitude, (8) perseverance, (9) humor, (10) humility, (11) generosity, (12) respect.
–Kathryn B. Johnson
Get to know two things about a man—how he earns his money and how he spends it —and you have the clue to his character, for you have a searchlight that shows up the inmost recesses of his soul. You know all you need to know about his standards, his motives, his driving desires, his real religion.
–Robert James McCracken
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.
–Martin Luther King, Jr.
The measure of a man’s real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.
–Thomas Babington Macaulay
=CHILDREN
Children are the messages we send to a future we will not see.
–Neil Postman
At some point in your life your parents put you down and never picked you up again.
—Unknown
When a child gives you a gift, even if it is a rock they just picked up, exude gratitude. It might be the only thing they have to give, and they have chosen to give it to you.
—Dean Jackson
Computers are incredibly fast, accurate, and stupid. Human beings are incredibly slow, inaccurate, and brilliant. Together they are powerful beyond imagination.
—Albert Einstein
It is as unforgivable to let a student graduate without knowing how to use a computer as it was in the past to let him graduate without knowing how to use a library.
–John Kennedy
I have a spelling checker, It came with my PC.
It plainly marks four my revue
Mistakes I cannot sea.
I’ve run this poem write through it,
I’m shore your pleas too no
It’s letter perfect in it’s weigh,
My checker tolled me sew!
–New York Times
