Mary Caroline Richards Quotes

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• It is for each of us freely to choose whom we shall serve, and find in that obedience our freedom.
• Am I willing to give up what I have in order to be what I am not yet? Am I willing to let my ideas…
• For since most of our living is unconscious, play is like matchstrokes in the void, bringing into light the structures we behave by, illuminating for…
• We have to believe that a creative being lives within ourselves, whether we like it or not, and that we must get out of its…
• It helps, I think, to consider ourselves on a very long journey: the main thing is to keep to the faith, to endure, to help…
• Compassion is an alternate perception
• Our works and our play. All our pleasures experienced as the pleasure of love. What could be better that? To feel in one's work the…
• And with listening, too, it seems to me, it is not the ear that hears, it is not the physical organ that performs the act…
• We must be steady enough in ourselves, to be open and to let the winds of life blow through us, to be our breath, our…
• To have character is to be big enough to take life on.
• The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.
• The child takes in his world as if it were food. And his world nourishes or starves him. Nothing escapes his thirst. Secrets are impossible.…
• Love is not a doctrine, Peace is not an international agreement. Love and peace are beings who live as possibilities in us.
• It is part of our pedagogy to teach the operations of thinking, feeling, and willing so that they may be made conscious. For if we…
• Inhabit ourselves that we may indeed do what we want to do.
• Who are enemies? Those who oppose each others will.
• Bear ye one another's burdens, the Lord said, and he was talking law.
• The big art is our life.
• From the seed grows a root, then a sprout; from the sprout, the seedling leaves; from the leaves, the stem; around the stem, the branches;…
• Poetry often enters through the window of irrelevance.

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