"One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child."

Jung, Carl on teacher
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"The images of the unconscious place a great responsibility upon a man. Failure to understand them, or a shirking of ethical responsibility, deprives him of his wholeness and imposes a painful fragmentariness on his life."

Jung, Carl on consciousness   

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed."

Jung, Carl on cooperation
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"The earth laughs in flowers."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on laughter
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"It takes courage to grow up and turn out to be who you really are."

Cummings, E.E. (Edward. E.) on courage
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"If I were just curious, it would be very hard to say to someone, I want to come to your house and have you talk to me and tell me the story of your life. I mean people are going to say, You're crazy. Plus they're going to keep mighty guarded. But the camera is a kind of license. A lot of people, they want to be paid that much attention and that's a reasonable kind of attention to be paid."

Arbus, Diane on photography
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"The virtue of the camera is not the power it has to transform the photographer into an artist, but the impulse it gives him to keep on looking."

Atkinson, Brooks on photography
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"It takes a lot of imagination to be a good photographer. You need less imagination to be a painter, because you can invent things. But in photography everything is so ordinary; it takes a lot of looking before you learn to see the ordinary."

Bailey, David on photography
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"The camera is an instrument that teaches people how to see without a camera."

Lange, Dorothea on photography
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"Sometimes you can tell a large story with a tiny subject."

Porter, Eliot on photography
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"Somewhere along the line of development we discover what we really are, and then we make our real decision for which we are responsible. Make that decision primarily for yourself because you can never really live anyone else's life, not even your own child's."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on decisions
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"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being."

Jung, Carl on light
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"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

Jung, Carl on imitation
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"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate."

Jung, Carl on fate
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"When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love has always won. There have been tyrants and murderers and for a time they seem invincible but in the end, they always fall -- think of it, ALWAYS."

Gandhi, Mahatma on despair
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"The moment the slave resolves that he will no longer be a slave. His fetters fall... freedom and slavery are mental states."

Gandhi, Mahatma on freedom
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"I have also seen children successfully surmounting the effects of an evil inheritance. That is due to purity being an inherent attribute of the soul."

Gandhi, Mahatma on inheritance
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"A man who was completely innocent, offered himself as a sacrifice for the good of others, including his enemies, and became the ransom of the world. It was a perfect act."

Gandhi, Mahatma on jesus christ
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"My life is an indivisible whole, and all my attitudes run into one another; and they all have their rise in my insatiable love for mankind."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Whenever you are confronted with an opponent. Conquer him with love."

Gandhi, Mahatma on love
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"Dreams are necessary to life."

Nin, Anais on dream
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"Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born."

Nin, Anais on friends and friendship
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"And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

Nin, Anais on action
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"Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together."

Nin, Anais on action   

"It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we cease to see. The writer shakes up the familiar scene, and, as if by magic, we see a new meaning in it."

Nin, Anais on action
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"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one's courage."

Nin, Anais on courage
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"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

Cosby, Bill on success
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"We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them."

Jung, Carl on adversity
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"The future belongs to those who believe in the beauty of their dreams."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on dream
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"You have to accept whatever comes and the only important thing is that you meet it with the best you have to give."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on effort
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"Self-denial is the shining sore on the leprous body of Christianity."

Wilde, Oscar on abstinence
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"It is only in misery that we recognize the hand of God leading good men to good."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on direction
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"Every situation, every moment -- is of infinite worth; for it is the representative of a whole eternity."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on eternity
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"Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on faults
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"One can be very happy without demanding that others agree with them."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on agreement
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"Where is the man who has the strength to be true, and to show himself as he is?"

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on honesty
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"The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the more familiar we are with it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on music
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"In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is before it, beside it, under it and over it."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on nature   

"The philosopher must station themselves in the middle."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on philosophers and philosophy   

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von on potential
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