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“[Kids] don't remember what you try to teach them. They remember what you are.”
― Jim Henson, It's Not Easy Being Green: And Other Things to Consider

“The world is your oyster. It's up to you to find the pearls.”
― Chris Gardner, The Pursuit of Happyness

“Experience life in all possible ways --
good-bad, bitter-sweet, dark-light,
summer-winter. Experience all the dualities.
Don't be afraid of experience, because
the more experience you have, the more
mature you become.”
― Osho

“Be realistic: Plan for a miracle”
― Osho

“Friendship is the purest love. It is the highest form of Love where nothing is asked for, no condition, where one simply enjoys giving.”
― Osho

“To be creative means to be in love with life. You can be creative only if you love life enough that you want to enhance its beauty, you want to bring a little more music to it, a little more poetry to it, a little more dance to it.”
― Osho

“Be — don't try to become”
― Osho

“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
― Mark Twain

“Children must be taught how to think, not what to think.”
― Margaret Mead

“If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library.”
― Frank Zappa

“Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all.”
― Aristotle

“I am not a teacher, but an awakener.”
― Robert Frost

“Spoon feeding in the long run teaches us nothing but the shape of the spoon.”
― E.M. Forster

“We spend the first year of a child's life teaching it to walk and talk and the rest of its life to shut up and sit down. There's something wrong there.”
― Neil deGrasse Tyson

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”
― Mark Twain, Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World

“Wisdom.... comes not from age, but from education and learning.”
― Anton Chekhov

“All I have learned, I learned from books.”
― Abraham Lincoln

“I don't want to believe. I want to know.”
― Carl Sagan

“A man who has never gone to school may steal a freight car; but if he has a university education, he may steal the whole railroad.”
― Theodore Roosevelt

“I received the fundamentals of my education in school, but that was not enough. My real education, the superstructure, the details, the true architecture, I got out of the public library. For an impoverished child whose family could not afford to buy books, the library was the open door to wonder and achievement, and I can never be sufficiently grateful that I had the wit to charge through that door and make the most of it. Now, when I read constantly about the way in which library funds are being cut and cut, I can only think that the door is closing and that American society has found one more way to destroy itself.”
― Isaac Asimov, I. Asimov: A Memoir

“Why not spend that time on art: painting, sculpting, charcoal, pastel, oils? Are words or numbers more important than images? Who decides this? Does algebra move you to tears? Can plural possessives express the feelings in your heart? If you don't learn art now, you will never learn to breathe!”
― Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak

“When you hurt people, they begin to love you less. That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.”
― Arundhati Roy

“Some people standby you in your darkest hour while others walk away; only a select few march towards you and become even closer friends.”
― Jeffrey Archer, Only Time Will Tell

“To be able to laugh and to be merciful are the only things that make man better than the beast”
― Ruskin Bond

“തീ പടര്‍ത്താനുഭയോഗിച്ച കമ്പോ കൊള്ളിയോ കത്തിത്തീര്‍ന്നാലും തീ പിന്നെയും പടര്‍ന്നുകൊണ്ടിരിക്കും. അഗ്നിഭാതയില്‍, ഒരു പക്ഷെ ചിന്തയുടെ അഗ്നിഭാതയില്‍ ആത്മനാശത്തിന്റെ അംശമുണ്ട്. അതിന്നര്‍ത്ഥം നിങ്ങള്‍ മറ്റുള്ളവരില്‍ പടരുന്നു എന്നോ സ്വയം ഇല്ലാതായിത്തീര്‍ന്നിട്ട് മറ്റുള്ളവരില്‍ ജീവിക്കുന്നു എന്നോ ആണ്. അതൊരു സാഫല്യമാണ്”
― M. N. Vijayan | എം.എന്‍ .വിജയന്‍

“Laugh loudly, laugh often, and most important, laugh at yourself.”
― Chelsea Handler, Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me

“ഇരയായി ഉടുപ്പിട്ട്‌ അഭിനയിക്കുകയാണ്‌ ഇര പിടിക്കുവാനുള്ള പുതിയ തന്ത്രം. ആലയില്‍ കടക്കാനും ആടുകളെ നയിക്കാനും ഇതും ഒരു തന്ത്രമാണെ്‌ പഴമക്കാരും അറിഞ്ഞിരുന്നു‍. ആദാമിന്‍റെ സന്തതി പരമ്പരയില്‍ ഈ തന്ത്രം ഇപ്പോഴും ഫലിക്കാതിരിക്കുന്നി‍ല്ല. അതുകൊണ്ട്‌ ഒരാശയത്തെ നശിപ്പിക്കുവാന്‍ അതേ ഇനത്തില്‍പ്പെട്ട സൂക്ഷ്മജീവികളെ നിയോഗിക്കാം. രാസായുധങ്ങളെക്കാള്‍ മെച്ചം ജൈവായുധങ്ങളാണ്‌”
― M.N. Vijayan

“സംതൃപ്തമായ യുവത്വം നിഷ്ക്രിയമായ യുവത്വവും നിര്ജീവമായ ജീവിതവുമായിത്തീരും... യുവത്വത്തിന് അതിന്റെ അസ്വസ്ഥത നഷ്ടപ്പെടുമ്പോള് അതൊരു യന്ത്രം പോലെ സമര്ത്ഥവും നിര്ജീവവും വന്ധ്യവും ആയിത്തീരും. വന്ധ്യതയ്ക്ക് ഒന്നിനെയും സൃഷ്ടിക്കുവാന് കഴിയാത്തതുകൊണ്ട് പുതിയ ഒരു ലോകക്രമത്തെ നിര്മ്മിക്കുവാനും അതിന് കഴിയില്ല.”
― M.N. Vijayan

“It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.”
― John Updike, My Father's Tears and Other Stories

“I’m not in this world to live up to your expectations and you’re not in this world to live up to mine.”
― Bruce Lee