"Friendship is composed of a single soul inhabiting two bodies."

Aristotle | Friends and Friendship | 16 bookmarks

"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

Godwin, Gail | Teachers and Teaching | 3 bookmarks

"We must view young people not as empty bottles to be filled, but as candles to be lit."

Shaffer, Robert H. | Teachers and Teaching | 2 bookmarks

"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan | Teachers and Teaching | 1 bookmarks

"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Ward, William A. | Teachers and Teaching | 5 bookmarks

"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

Beecher, Henry Ward | Responsibility | 1 bookmarks

"Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself."

Strabo, Mikhail | Responsibility | 3 bookmarks

"Young love is a flame; very pretty, often very hot and fierce, but still only light and flickering. The love of the older and disciplined heart is as coals, deep-burning, unquenchable."

Beecher, Henry Ward | Love | 5 bookmarks

"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt | Enemies | 5 bookmarks

"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."

Frankfurter, Felix | Gratitude | 1 bookmarks