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- We are here not only to transform the world but also to be transformed.
- By surviving passages of doubt and depression on the vocational journey, I have become clear about at least one thing: self-care is never a selfish…
- The kind of teaching that transforms people does not happen if the student’s inward teacher is ignored… we can speak to the teacher within our…
- We think it's about little techniques and tricks, but techniques only take you so far. We need teachers who care about kids, who care about…
- Community cannot take root in a divided life. Long before community assumes external shape and form, it must be present as seed in the undivided…
- Humility is the only lens though which great things can be seen--and once we have seen them, humility is the only posture possible.
- In my own life, as winters turn into spring, I find it not only hard to cope with mud but also hard to credit the…
- Our deepest calling is to grow into our own authentic self-hood, whether or not it conforms to some image of who we ought to be.…
- As a young man, I yearned for the day when, rooted in the experience that comes only with age, I could do my work fearlessly.…
- The academic bias against subjectivity not only forces our students to write poorly ("It is believed...," instead of, "I believe..."), it deforms their thinking about…
- Self-care is never a selfish act - it is only good stewardship of the only gift I have, the gift I was put on earth…
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- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- War has become a luxury that only small nations can afford. — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- I have gained this from philosophy: that I do without being commanded what others do only from fear of the law. — Aristotle
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- Men create gods after their own image, not only with regard to their form but with regard to their mode of life. — Aristotle
- It is just that we should be grateful, not only to those with whose views we may agree, but also to those… — Aristotle