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That's right,' she told the girls. 'You are bored. And I'm going to let you in on a little secret about life. You think it's boring now? Well, it only gets more boring. The sooner you learn it's on you to make life interesting, the better off you'll be.


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MARIA MITCHELL My dad has some depressive issues, and he's really tough on himself. So sometimes he can say thi...
MARIA BAMFORD Don't ever, ever, believe anyone who tells you that you can just get by, by doing the easiest th...
MARIA BARTIROMO To aid life, leaving it free, however, that is the basic task of the educator.
MARIA MONTESSORI The greatest object in educating is to give a right habit of study.
MARIA MITCHELL If we take care of the moments, the years will take care of themselves.
MARIA EDGEWORTH An opera begins long before the curtain goes up and ends long after it has come down. It starts in m...
MARIA CALLAS "Niagara! wonder of this western world, And half the world beside! hail, beauteous queen Of ...
MARIA BROOKS We teachers can only help the work going on, as servants wait upon a master.
MARIA MONTESSORI The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The tea...
MARIA MONTESSORI The task of the educator lies in seeing that the child does not confound good with immobility and ev...
MARIA MONTESSORI The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years...
MARIA MONTESSORI Never help a child with a task at which he feels he can succeed.
MARIA MONTESSORI I keep pointing at the child; they keep staring at my finger.
MARIA MONTESSORI Discipline must come through liberty. . . . We do not consider an individual disciplined only when h...
MARIA MONTESSORI Peace is when time doesn't matter as it passes by.
MARIA SCHELL My biggest dream since I was a kid was to be the woman sneaking on the pirate ship dressed like a ma...
MARIA BELLO Fragrant o'er all the western groves The tall magnolia towers unshaded.
MARIA BROOKS I cannot switch my voice. My voice is not like an elevator going up and down.
MARIA CALLAS I would like to be Maria, but there is La Callas who demands that I carry myself with her dignity.
MARIA CALLAS I only have nightmares because my dreams have come true.
MARIA BARRAGAN My future is just a mirage. The more I expect from it, it just turns out to be mere reflections.
MARIA K It is not true that I invented what is called the Montessori Method... I have studied the child; I h...
MARIA MONTESSORI I would never want to model as my career, but fashion is my hobby. When you love what you're wea...
MARIA VALVERDE My mom always does this thing where, the closer I get to home, the more she calls. 'Hey, listen,...
MARIA BAMFORD Temptation, if it is not to conquer, must not fall like a bomb against another bomb of instantaneous...
MARIA MONTESSORI Women somehow get portrayed as one type. You're either a feminist or you're not. You're ...
MARIA SHRIVER I'm not an extroverted person, nor am I hyper-confident in my point of view. I just don't ha...
MARIA BAMFORD I think the issue is that Americans traveling abroad if gotten into legal problems should have acces...
MARIA CANTWELL The United States and the European Union do want to have a rule of law, and that rule of law should ...
MARIA CANTWELL