inspirational quotes about school

I do my work at the same time each day - the last minute. ~Author Unknown



We begin life with the world presenting itself to us as it is. Someone - our parents, teachers, analysts - hypnotizes us to "see" the world and construe it in the "right" way. These others label the world, attach names and give voices to the beings and events in it, so that thereafter, we cannot read the world in any other language or hear it saying other things to us. The task is to break the hypnotic spell, so that we become undeaf, unblind and multilingual, thereby letting the world speak to us in new voices and write all its possible meanings in the new book of our existence. Be careful in your choice of hypnotists. ~Sidney Jourard



Ah, how good it feels! The hand of an old friend. ~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow



Great minds have purposes, others have wishes. ~Washington Irving



I'll never get used to anything. Anybody that does, they might as well be dead. ~Truman Capote, Breakfast at Tiffany's, 1958, spoken by the character Holly Golightly



Jealousy... is a mental cancer. ~B.C. Forbes



Can an afternoon revert? ~Carrie Latet



I told my mother-in-law that my house was her house, and she said, "Get the hell off my property." ~Joan Rivers



Train up a child in the way he should go: and when he is old, he will not depart from it. ~Proverbs 22:6



It is impossible to calculate the moral mischief, if I may so express it, that mental lying has produced in society. When a man has so far corrupted and prostituted the chastity of his mind as to subscribe his professional belief to things he does not believe he has prepared himself for the commission of every other crime. ~Thomas Paine, The Age of Reason



Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind. ~Richard Powers



He had the uneasy manner of a man who is not among his own kind, and who has not seen enough of the world to feel that all people are in some sense his own kind. ~Willa Cather



How is one to live a moral and compassionate existence when one finds darkness not only in one's culture but within oneself? There are simply no answers to some of the great pressing questions. You continue to live them out, making your life a worthy expression of leaning into the light. ~Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them. ~Samuel Taylor Coleridge



When suffering comes, we yearn for some sign from God, forgetting we have just had one. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



We welcome passion, for the mind is briefly let off duty. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Neurotic's Notebook, 1960



The first half of our lives is ruined by our parents and the second half by our children. ~Clarence Darrow



It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah It is not for him to pride himself who loveth his own country, but rather for him who loveth the whole world. The earth is but one country and mankind its citizens. ~Baha'u'llah



No one appreciates the very special genius of your conversation as the dog does. ~Christopher Morley



It's better to have beer in hand than gas in tank. ~Author Unknown



War is fear cloaked in courage. ~William Westmoreland