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“...happiness is your innermost nature. It needs no outside condition: it is simply there; it is you. Bliss is your natural state; it is not an achievement. If you simply get out of the mechanism of the mind, you start feeling blissful.”
― Fame, Fortune, and Ambition: What Is the Real Meaning of Success?
― Fame, Fortune, and Ambition: What Is the Real Meaning of Success?
“Death is a strange thing. People live their whole lives as if it does not exist, and yet it’s often one of the great motivations for living.”
― A Man Called Ove
― A Man Called Ove
“Somewhere inside me a tornado swoops down, lifting a matchstick house into an exploding sky. Shards fall like rain, piercing my skin, thorning the ground. In dreams begin follies, says a voice like a forgotten poem. I walk carefully through the thorns, one foot in front of the other not looking back. Behind me the car door sighs shut.”
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“Teaching happens when teachers help students to think about what they are doing and learning, to ask questions, to consider new possibilities, to take seriously their own capacities to grow and learn and to develop a sense of judgment.”
― Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher's Creed
― Exploring the Moral Heart of Teaching: Toward a Teacher's Creed
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