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Learning & Teaching
“Teachers affect eternity. They never know where their influence stops.” — Learning & Teaching
“Teachers affect eternity. They never know where their influence stops.” — Henry Adams
“It is not enough to have a good mind, the main thing is to use it well.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Teachers, if indeed wise, do not bid you enter the house of their wisdom, but lead you to the threshold of your own mind.” — Kahil Gibran
“School is always in session, and life challenges us to excell at being both enthusiastic student and inspired teacher.” — Unknown
“Students are often in no position to judge ‘relevance’ until long after the fact.” — Thomas Sowell
“It is a good thing for an uneducation man to read books of quotations.” — Sir Winston Churchill
“Life is tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.” — John Wayne
“Let us not try to be the best or the worst of others, but let us make the effort to be the best of ourselves.” — Unknown
“Be wiser than others, if you can, but do not tell them so.” — Lord Chesterfield
“It matters not how strait the gate; how charged with punishments the scroll;
I am the master of my fate: I am the captain of my soul.” — W.E. Henley, Poet
“Knowledge is knowing a fact. Wisdom is knowing what to do with that fact.” — B.J. Palmer
“The Key to wisdom is knowing all the right questions.” — John A. Simone, Jr.
“A Mind is like a Parachute. It works best when OPENED.” — Unknown
“If you learn to love Reading, you will never be alone.” — Nelle Reagan, Told to her young son, Ronald
“When the pupil is ready, the Master will appear.” — Confuscious
“Those who don’t read have no advantage over those who can’t.” — Mark Twain
“If you think education is expensive, try ignorance.” — Unknown
“A College Degree is not a sign that one is a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for life.” — Rev. Edward A. Malloy
“You can’t use what you don’t know.” — Harold Huff
“Wisdom is the correct application of knowledge.” — Unknown
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship.” — Louisa May Alcott
“A seed gives birth to fruit of its own kind.” — Robert Smith
Don’t judge each day by the harvest you reap, but by the seeds you plant.” — Robert Louis Stevenson
“The more wisdom we know the more we may earn. Those who seek to learn more of their craft shall be richly rewarded.” — George S. Clason – from “The Richest man in Babylon”
“The wonderful truth about skills and knowledge: they don’t wear out with use.” — Tom Hopkins
“We’d like to help you learn to help yourself.” — Simon & Garfunkle – “Mrs. Robinson”
“Half of knowledge is knowing where to find it.” — Unknown
“There are many who can teach, but only a few who can reach.” — Unknown
“Everybody, at some point, is going to have adversity. If we don’t learn from that, then it was just a penalty. But, if you use it, then it becomes TUITION.” — ‘Dr. Phil’ McGraw
“School is a building that has four walls with tomorrow inside.” — Lon Watters
Life & Living
“Life is a journey, not a guided tour.” — Unknown
“Life is the sum of all your choices.” — Albert Camus
“Life is a short visit. Enjoy your stay.” — Unknown
“Life is not the candle or the wick, but the burning.” — Unknown
“Life is tough. It’s tougher when you’re stupid.” — John Wayne
“Life is like a ten speed bike. Most of us have gears we never use.” — Charles Schultz
Don’t make a living at the expense of life.” — Unknown
“Time is the coin of life. It is the only coin you have, and only you can determine how it will be spent. Be careful, lest you let others spend it for you.” — Carl Sanburg
One should count each day a separate life.” — Seneca (B.C. 3-65 A.D.)
“Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can.” — Danny Kaye
“To live without loving is not really to live.” — Jean Baptiste Poquelin MoliEre
“Life is just a minute,
Only sixty seconds in it,
Forces upon you, can’t refuse it.
Didn’t seek it, didn’t choose it.
But it’s up to you to use it.
You must suffer if you lose it,
Give an account if you abuse it,
Just a tiny little minute,
But eternity is in it.” — Unknown
“Life is what happens to us while we are making other plans.” — Thomas LaMance
“The meaning of your life comes through your obligations to others.” — Dr. Laura Schlessinger
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life… and that word is LOVE.” — Sophocles
“To whom a lot has been given, a lot is expected.” — Unknown
“The secret of success in life is to be ready for your opportunity when it comes.” — Benjamin Disraeli
“If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.” — John Atkinson
“Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around.” — Leo Buscaglia
“When one gets to love work life is a happy one.” — Unknown
“Life is but a moment in the realm of all eternity, so have a little fun every day.” — Van Orden
“A College Degree is not a sign that one is a finished product, but an indication a person is prepared for life.” — Rev. Edward A. Malloy
“Don’t confuse having a career with having a life – they are not the same.” — Hillary Rodham Clinton
“A man only begins to be a man when he ceases to whine and revile, and commences to search for the hidden justice which regulates life.” — James Allen (From ‘As A Man Thinketh’)
“Go do the right thing.” — Dr. Laura Schlessinger
“Something done in an instant can cause heartache for a lifetime.” — Unknown
“It’s never too late to enjoy your childhood.” — Unknown
“LIFE’S SHORT. PRAY HARD.” — Unknown
“Live well, Love much, Laugh often.” — Unknown
Love & Romance
“Give all to Love; Obey they heart.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803 – 1882)
“There is no rememdy for love but to love more.” — Henry David Thoreau
“So much of what we know of LOVE we learn at home.” — Unknown
“The way to love anything is to realize it might be lost.” — G.K. Chesterton
“If kisses were raindrops, I’d send you a storm.” — Unknown
Sweetheart… I love you — Sentiment
“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.” — David Viscott
No matter how busy we get, we should always make time for you and me and the Love We Share.” — Sentient
“Now abide faith, hope, love, these three; but the greatest of these is Love.” — 1 Corinthisans 13:13
“The story of love is not important. What is important is that one is capable of LOVE. It is perhaps the only glimpse we are permitted of eternity.” — Helen Hayes
“There is no place I’d rather be than with thee”. — Van Orden
“He that falls in love with himself will have no rivals.” — Benjamin Franklin
I love the feeling I feel when I feel this feeling for you. — Sentiment
“No matter color, age or religion, we all need love.” — Unknown
“Tonight I’m going to give you what you love most.” — Sentiment
“A friend loveth at all times, and brother is born for adversity.” — Proverbs 17:17
“The heart has it’s reasons which reason cannot know.” — Pascal
“A Relationship is more than finding the right person, it’s being the right person.” — Unknown
“Choose your love wisely. Love your choice always.” — Unknown
For God so loved the world, that He gave His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. — John 3:16
“Absence is to love what wind is to fire; it extinguishes the small, it inflames the great.” — Bussy-Rabutin
“Love is, above all, the gift of oneself.” — Jean Anouilh
“Love is an irresistable desire to be irresistably desired.” — Robert Frost
“These things I command you, that you love one another. ” — John 15:17
“To live without loving is not really to have lived.” — Jean BaptistePoquelin MoliEre (1622-73)
The First Commandment
“Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind.” — Matthew 22:37
“Too much of a good thing can be wonderful.” — Mae West
“The best and most beautiful things in the world cannot be seen or even touched; they must be felt with the heart.” — Helen Keller
“Someday, perhaps the inner light will shine forth from us, and then we shall need no other light.” — Pierre Simon De LaPlace
“It’s only with the heart that one can see clearly; what’s essential is invisible to the eye.” — Lerner & Lowe – “The Little Prince”
“I love you more than you’ll ever know.” — Sentiment
“The music that reaches the farthest into heaven is the beating of a loving Heart.” — Henry Ward Beecher
“Love is the offspring of spiritual affinity and unless that affinity is created in a moment, it will not be created for years or even generations.” — Kalil Gibran
“Make someone happy. Make just one someone happy, and you’ll be happy too.” — Song written by Betty Condon, Adolph Green and Julie Styne
“Kids need Love when they are acting most unloveable.” — Unknown
“You are so beautiful to me.” — Joe Cocker
“Never let a fool kiss you, or a kiss fool you.” — Dr. Mardy Grothe
“Therefore, a man shall leave his father and mother, and shall cleave unto his wife; and they shall become one.” — Genesis 2:24
“It is the duty of men to love even those who injure them.” — Marcus Antonius
“God loves you and so do I.” — Christian Sentiment
“There is only one kind of Love, but there are a thousand imitations.” — Francois de la Rouchefoucauld
“I love you not because of who you are, but because of who I am when I am with you.” — Unknown
“One word frees us of all the weight and pain of life… and that word is LOVE.” — Sophocles
“The love we give away is the only love we keep.” — Elbert Hubbard
“People need loving the most when they deserve it the least.” — John Harrigan
“Love doesn’t just make the world go ’round… it makes the ride worthwhile.” — Unknown
“Live well, Love much, Laugh often.” — Unknown
“If you love deeply, you will grieve deeply. If you deny your grief, you deny the reality of the love you felt.” — Diane McKendree
“Work is love made visible.” — Kahlil GibranLearning & Teaching
