“We destroy the love of learning in children, which is so strong when they are small, by encouraging and compelling them to work for petty and contemptible rewards, gold stars, or papers marked 100 and tacked to the wall, or A's on report cards, or honor rolls, or dean's lists, or Phi Beta Kappa keys, in short, for the ignoble satisfaction of feeling that they are better than someone else.”
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“You will find what you look for in people and in the world. If you are loving, you will find love. If you seek beauty, you will see beauty. If you pursue goodness, you will receive goodness. What you are inside will attract the same from the outside. When you love, love comes to you. When you hate, hate finds you.”
― Psychology and the Near-Death Experience: Searching for God
― Psychology and the Near-Death Experience: Searching for God
“You don’t grow up gradually. You grow up in short bursts at pivotal moments, by suddenly realizing how ignorant and immature you are.”
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
― In Europe's Shadow: Two Cold Wars and a Thirty-Year Journey Through Romania and Beyond
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