Posts Tagged: birthday

The future of learning

“The principle goal of education should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done -men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers” -Jean Piaget

The future of learning

“The principle goal of education should be creating men and women who are capable of doing new things, not simply repeating what other generations have done -men and women who are creative, inventive and discoverers” -Jean Piaget

I’ve seen this before

“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” -Andy Warhol

I’ve seen this before

“Isn’t life a series of images that change as they repeat themselves?” -Andy Warhol

A life connected

“We cannot live only for ourselves. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects.” -Herman Melville

A life connected

“We cannot live only for ourselves. Our lives are connected by a thousand invisible threads, and along these sympathetic fibers, our actions run as causes and they come back to us as effects.” -Herman Melville

Something to believe in

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” -Aldous Huxley

Something to believe in

“All gods are homemade, and it is we who pull their strings, and so, give them the power to pull ours.” -Aldous Huxley

Life imitating art

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” -Edgar Degas

Life imitating art

“Painting is easy when you don’t know how, but very difficult when you do.” -Edgar Degas

Is this the real life?

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” -Iris Murdoch

Is this the real life?

“We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusion. The great task in life is to find reality.” -Iris Murdoch

Overcoming obstacles

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -John Q. Adams

Overcoming obstacles

“Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.” -John Q. Adams

Success is just around the corner

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” -John D. Rockefeller

Success is just around the corner

“I do not think there is any other quality so essential to success of any kind as the quality of perseverance. It overcomes almost everything, even nature.” -John D. Rockefeller

We regret what we feared to do

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” -Tom Stoppard

We regret what we feared to do

“We cross our bridges when we come to them and burn them behind us, with nothing to show for our progress except a memory of the smell of smoke, and a presumption that once our eyes watered.” -Tom Stoppard

The art of living

“To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

The art of living

“To live is not merely to breathe; it is to act; it is to make use of our organs, senses, faculties – of all those parts of ourselves which give us the feeling of existence” -Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I believe in man

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of Earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and   angels.”

I believe in man

“I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in the kindness of human beings. I am so absorbed in the wonder of Earth and the life upon it that I cannot think of heaven and   angels.”

Concrete rose

“We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is

Concrete rose

“We wouldn’t ask why a rose that grew from the concrete for having damaged petals, in turn, we would all celebrate its tenacity, we would all love its will to reach the sun, well, we are the roses, this is