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The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living. -Wendell Phillips.
WENDELL PHILLIPS The best education in the world is that got by struggling to get a living.
WENDELL PHILLIPS You're full of contradictions, Ms. Wallace."
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TAMMARA WEBBER How should I know?" said Alice, surprised at her own courage. "It's no business of mine."
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LEWIS CARROLL Now is everything
Now is the essence
Now is the focus
Focus on the now
For that ...
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VICTOR SHAMAS One must simply take the days of their lives as they happen. If you spend time worrying over what is...
R.J. GONZALES Some people never take a chance and never know what it's like to live life to the full.
CHLOE THURLOW Life doesn't happen to you, it happens FROM you.
GREGG KORROL We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.
THICH NHAT HANH Idleness is a form of passivity in an active universe.
MICHAEL BASSEY JOHNSON The love you get, is equal to the love you give.
BEN OAK Smiling at death seems like a pretty bold act. And so I smile like a damned fool.
EMM COLE I have always wished the present to resemble memory: because the present can be flat at times, and b...
LYDIA MILLET The hardest thing in this world, is to live in it.
MUTANT ENEMY, BUFFY THE VAMPIRE SLAYER A person who lives truly in present time is dependent on oneself only not on sycophants’ people.
ANUJ SOMANY The Buddha told him, "When we sit, we know we are sitting. When we walk, we know we are walking. Whe...
THICH NHAT HANH She plucked the blossoms from the bag and arranged them, one by one, in the water glass on her dress...
SARAH JIO Tomorrow is tomorrow.
Future cares have future cures,
And we must mind today.
SOPHOCLES To him, even the momentary was momentous.
G.K. CHESTERTON ‎You can clutch the past so tightly to your chest that it leaves your arms too full to embrace the...
JAN GLIDEWELL I could think, write or tell, instead I Lived and Created Myself!
RAMANA PEMMARAJU I tell young people to prepare themselves as best they can for a world that grows more challenging e...
JULIAN BOND Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?...
ERNEST HEMINGWAY Sometimes best things in life turns out to be worst and teach us lessons; lessons limited to the min...
SAURABH OBEROI Cornel West bridges another gap between the intellectual elite and the masses of people that are str...
LARRY CROWE i know im not the girl you wanted. not the one you want to hear from. but what you see is what you g...
SIMI GREWAL His life seemed like a deck of cards, and in the midst of all those two’s and three’s someone ha...
TEKOA MANNING We feel the best way to approach education is to make sure we've got the best teachers in the classr...
TIM MURTAUGH Write to Say something,
Say to Make something,
Make to Be something.
SHASHIDHAR SA Pursuit of contentment is not the pursuit of an elusive tomorrow; it is the celebration of today. In...
MAJID KAZMI When you live in the present, the past is forgotten & the future takes care of itself.
MANDY HALE If you want to conquer the anxiety of life, live in the moment, live in the breath.
AMIT RAY Life can only be understood looking backward. It must be lived forward.
ERIC ROTH Things were a little untidy, but what did that matter? It was possible to become the slave of things...
ELIZABETH VON ARNIM To live in the present, you need to act or accept but never stay stuck.
JOHN KUYPERS Beautify your breath – beautify your life.
AMIT RAY No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
GILBERT KEITH CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G. K. CHESTERTON No man who worships education has got the best out of education... Without a gentle contempt for edu...
G.K. CHESTERTON I’d wish it were easier to not allow other people’s pasts to create my own present.
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FRANCINE RIVERS The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
CRAIG GROESCHEL He wept because he was afraid now that he could not save Gabriel. He no longer cared about himself
LOIS LOWRY If the best is possible, than good is never enough and only do the best.
ROBERT SIAHAAN To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you r...
MANDY HALE The best antidote to the woes of the world is the right education! The world is full of several woes...
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BRAD PITT Mother Superior jump the gun...
-The Beatles, Happiness is a Warm Gun
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KARLA PERRY Anything that is exclusive will be accused of elitism; living one’s dreams will be called pretenti...
FENNEL HUDSON If I provide for this life and turn away from the Lord, I am wise for a moment, but lost forever.
FRANCINE RIVERS The only way he could have her was to shatter this stubborn faith of hers. In doing so, would he sha...
FRANCINE RIVERS The war is just there to get Dad off stage, ... 'Little Women' is not about war, it's not about pov...
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- Ni ja, Ivane, ne pristajem da se odričem. Ja hoću ceo, sav, ...
DOBRICA ĆOSIć She was restless. She drove a little too fast, swam a little too far offshore. She hitchhiked. She s...
ELIZABETH WINDER Life is not a game. Still, in this life, we choose the games we live to play.
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GERMANY KENT Honesty is the best policy.
BENJAMIN FRANKLIN Wake up to a brand new day and realize why you woke up to meet the day! Live to the end of another d...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Seize the day, then let it go.
MARTY RUBIN Being present is being connected to All Things.
S. KELLEY HARRELL, M. DIV. We're combining the best practices of the business world to the world of education.
DANIEL HAMBURGER Mindfulness is observing the beauty of every moment unfolding before us.
AMIT RAY Understanding your life purpose is vital to joy and dynamic participation in the world.
LAURIE BUCHANAN, PHD If you want to be happy, do not dwell in the past, do not worry about the future, focus on living fu...
ROY BENNETT I didn't care for humans at 16 and it hasn't gotten any better. They say one thing and do another. I...
BOBBY W. MILLER The universe is a gathering of nows that I spread before my feet like a landscape.
JANET TURPIN MYERS The egoic mind imagines a problem, and then it imagines a solution. When we get caught up in these t...
GINA LAKE The beauty of this day doesn't depend on its lasting forever.
MARTY RUBIN In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...
HENRY DAVID THOREAU the room of the spirit is the mind and the seat of the spirit is the heart. What we give room to muc...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH I'd rather be on the ground than under
To feel the heavy rain and the thunder.
ANA CLAUDIA ANTUNES A lot of people are struggling to get by.
JEAN ROSS I have better understanding how difficult and complex life can be, fortunately I know when not to ta...
SHELLIE PALMER To see the world, get more education and have children, not necessarily in that order.
MARCIA MCBEATH How do you know if something is real? That’s easy. Does it change you? Does it form you? Does it g...
C. JOYBELL C. I've been struggling so far being the rookie out there. It's a big learning curve stepping up from t...
BEN LAUGHLIN The way is yours for the asking - the way is yours for the taking. The way is as it should be.
KAREN HACKEL Even as we live with the knowledge that each day might be our last, we don’t want to believe it.
SHARON SALZBERG I think that many people will intentionally overlook all of the lifeless facts about their relations...
C. JOYBELL C. A new day is here! yesterday is gone! tomorrow is preparing to come! but why is today here?
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH May you begin living beyond.
ASA DON BROWN We've got nice facilities, etc., etc., but it's really about the people. The best players in the wor...
CRAIG TILEY The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
LUCIUS ANNAEUS SENECA The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA (SENECA THE ELDER) The bravest sight in the world is to see a great man struggling against adversity.
SENECA Intentional living is the art of making our own choices before others' choices make us.
RICHIE NORTON Make it a point whilst you live that long after you are gone, your works must live, teach, inspire a...
ERNEST AGYEMANG YEBOAH Honesty is the best policy - when there is money in it.
MARK TWAIN We have been struggling. We let a team get into the game. and when a team goes up on you by 18 point...
JEFF SHAW FËDOR Mikhailovich Dostoevski, the
Russian novelist, said one time that, "One sacred memory fr...
KURT VONNEGUT I learned that LIVING my LIFE is best about LIVING by my highest priorities.
LORRIN L. LEE Abstract conversations are my favourite, for they unviel true convictions.
PARUL WADHWA All I suggest is to make K-12 like higher education. Higher education in the United States is the be...
GARY JOHNSON We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P. GARDNER We learn simply by the exposure of living. Much that passes for education is not education at all bu...
DAVID P GARDNER Don't tell me you're one of those people who becomes their disease. I know so many people like that....
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WENDELL WILLKIE It might seem to you that living in the woods on a riverbank would remove you from the modern world....
WENDELL BERRY Not too many teams get a chance to play against a state-ranked team that has only one loss. We look ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES What they do is they're consistent in the their offensive attack. They don't vary. They're precise. ...
WENDELL BYRD With Oracle shares currently trading at 34 times our revised [calendar year 2001] EPS estimate of 43...
WENDELL LAIDLEY I talked to [Roy] prior to that. We spoke cordially before the game. We make contact on the phone wi...
WENDELL BYRD It is a horrible fact that we can read in the daily paper, without interrupting our breakfast, numer...
WENDELL BERRY We played hard and we played good defense. We just didn't shoot well. People can preach team (play) ...
WENDELL JEFFRIES When a balance between Trinidad and island interests is being served, and the Caribbean is again spe...
WENDELL MOTTLEY Lovers must not, like usurers, live for themselves alone. They must finally turn from their gaze at ...
WENDELL BERRY No settled family or community has ever called its home place an “environment.” None has ever ca...
WENDELL BERRY The freedom of affluence opposes and contradicts the freedom of community life.
WENDELL BERRY Healing is impossible in loneliness; it is the opposite of loneliness. Conviviality is healing. To b...
WENDELL BERRY ...the care of the earth is our most ancient and most worthy and, after all, our most pleasing respo...
WENDELL BERRY We have lived by the assumption that what was good for us would be good for the world. And this has ...
WENDELL BERRY Until we understand what the land is, we are at odds with everything we touch. And to come to that u...
WENDELL BERRY We walked always in beauty, it seemed to me. We walked and looked about, or stood and looked. Someti...
WENDELL BERRY Sabbaths, 1982—IV  
(“A gardener rises out of the ground”)


Thrush song,...
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