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

Aristotle on friends and friendship
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"Good teaching is one-fourth preparation and three-fourths theater."

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

Shaffer, Robert H. on teacher
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"When teaching, light a fire, don't fill a bucket."

Snow, Dan on teacher
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"The mediocre teacher tells. The good teacher explains. The superior teacher demonstrates. The great teacher inspires."

Ward, William A. on teacher
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"Hold yourself responsible for a higher standard than anybody else expects of you, never excuse yourself."

Beecher, Henry Ward on responsibility
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"Only you can hold yourself back, only you can stand in your own way. Only you can help yourself."

Strabo, Mikhail on responsibility
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"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 on love
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"I no doubt deserved my enemies, but I don't believe I deserved my friends."

Whitman, Walt on enemies
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"Gratitude is one of the least articulate of the emotions, especially when it is deep."

Frankfurter, Felix on gratitude   

"Try as much as possible to be wholly alive, with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell and when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough."

Saroyan, William on life
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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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"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by each experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face. You are able to say to yourself, ?I have lived through this horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.? You must do the thing you think you cannot do."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on fear
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"Great minds discuss ideas; average minds discuss events; small minds discuss people."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on gossip
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"I am not a teacher, but an awakener."

Frost, Robert on teacher
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"It is the supreme art of the teacher to awaken joy in creative expression and knowledge."

Einstein, Albert on teacher
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"Life is nothing without friendship."

Cicero, Marcus T. on friends and friendship
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"Friendship needs no words..."

Hammarskjold, Dag on friends and friendship
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"The language of friendship is not words but meanings."

Thoreau, Henry David on friends and friendship
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"The task of the modern educator is not to cut down jungles, but to irrigate deserts."

Lewis, C. S. on education
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"Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art. It has no survival value; rather it is one of those things that give value to survival."

Lewis, C. S. on friends and friendship
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"Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours."

Lewis, C. S. on giving
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"God cannot give us a happiness and peace apart from Himself, because it is not there. There is no such thing."

Lewis, C. S. on happiness
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"I believe in Christianity as I believe in the rising sun; not because I see it, but by it I can see all else."

Lewis, C. S. on christians and christianity
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"You have to leave the city of your comfort and go into the wilderness of your intuition. What you'll discover will be wonderful. What you'll discover is yourself."

Alda, Alan on risk
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"When love and skill work together, expect a masterpiece."

Ruskin, John on ability
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"The minute you settle for less than you deserve, you get even less than you settled for."

Dowd, Maureen on acceptance
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"Love is but the discovery of ourselves in others, and the delight in the recognition."

Smith, Alexander on love
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"The art of teaching is the art of assisting discovery."

Doren, Mark Van on teacher
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"Life is amazing: and the teacher had better prepare himself to be a medium for that amazement."

Blishen, Edward on teacher   

"Nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent."

Roosevelt, Eleanor on inferiority
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