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“To make a resolution and act accordingly is to live with hope. There may be difficulties and hardships, but not disappointment or despair if you follow the path steadily. Do not hurry. This is a fundamental rule. If you hurry and collapse or tumble down, nothing is achieved. DO not rest in your efforts; this is another fundamental rule. Without stopping, without haste, carefully taking a step at a time forward will surely get you there.”
― Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

“Teaching music is not my main purpose. I want to make good citizens. If children hear fine music from the day of their birth and learn to play it, they develop sensitivity, discipline and endurance. They get a beautiful heart.”
― Shinichi Suzuki

“If he or she really goes about it in earnest, anyone can cultivate ability in ten years, I believe. Even in one year, shortcomings can be changed into good points if only we set our aims high enough. Continuing for ten years, we can become outstanding indeed...There is no limit to our shortcomings. Until we die, we should spare no time or effort in changing our weaknesses to merits. To do so can be pleasant and interesting. We can become like the horse that starts last and yet outruns the field, reaching the wire first; it is the same fun.”
― Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

“I cannot live without children.”
― Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

“A child's slowness in any subject indicates a deficiency in his environment, educational or otherwise.”
― Shinichi Suzuki, Nurtured by Love: The Classic Approach to Talent Education

“Music is ... A higher revelation than all Wisdom & Philosophy”
― Ludwig van Beethoven

“Grace is the most perplexing, powerful force in the universe, and, I believe, the only hope for our twisted, violent planet.”
― Phillip Yancey

“We tend to think, 'Life should be fair because God is fair.' But God is not life. And if I confuse God with the physical reality of life- by expecting constant good health for example- then I set myself up for crashing disappointment.”
― Philip Yancey, Disappointment with God

“I have learned that faith means trusting in advance what will only make sense in reverse.”
― Philip Yancey

“[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

“As children, we all live in a world of imagination, of fantasy, and for some of us that world of make-believe continues into adulthood.”
― Jim Henson

“Love God and He will enable you to love others even when they disappoint you.”
― Francine Rivers, And the Shofar Blew

“True beauty is rare, and seldom recognized by the one who possesses it.”
― Francine Rivers, A Voice in the Wind

“Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence.”
― Robert Frost

“The educated differ from the uneducated as much as the living differ from the dead.”
― Aristotle

“It is important that students bring a certain ragamuffin, barefoot irreverence to their studies; they are not here to worship what is known, but to question it.”
― Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man