“Don´t let your work define you. But let you define what works for you to defy and refine you even more.”
“I’ve done everything I wanted to do, writing books, learning about things, but I’ve been swindled all the same because it’s never anything more.”
“Life is about learning and growing. Experiencing. Self-expression. And overall, living love in all forms. Our soul’s evolution is dependent upon embracing, and becoming, unconditional love. Acceptance is an important part of that if we wish to avoid resistance and human drama. At the end of the day, we all just want to feel good and be happy. And attaining that is all that matters because then, we can be the highest versions of ourselves. The ups and downs of life are what make it real for us. The ups and downs that we experience within ourselves are what make us real, and human. In order to fully live each and every day, we need to open to all of life and all of ourselves. Resistance puts a kink in that seamless plan and brings us more of what we do not want.”
“I’m not here to disagree with people or try to change anyone’s mind. I’m just here to accept and love others right where they are – no matter their belief systems or backgrounds.”
“...the [mental] organization of grammar [is] a case where complexity in the mind is not caused by learning; learning is caused by complexity in the mind.”
“The finding that rereading textbooks is often labor in vain ought to send a chill up the spines of educators and learners, because it’s the number one study strategy of most people—including more than 80 percent of college students in some surveys—and is central in what we tell ourselves to do during the hours we dedicate to learning. Rereading has three strikes against it. It is time consuming. It doesn’t result in durable memory. And it often involves a kind of unwitting self-deception, as growing familiarity with the text comes to feel like mastery of the content.”
“The future can not blame the present, just as the present cannot blame the past.”
“When you want to learn something, all the life experiences conspire in helping you to learn.”
“When I was a kid my mom would send me off to school each day with the words, ‘Remember: be happy! The most important thing today is that you are happy!”
“While you can t hold on to everything forever, you re a fool if you sell back your college books at semester s end: have you learned nothing of this life?”
“Everyone thinks that teachers are automatically above the taught The teachers are the taught.”
“The greatest learner in the world is one who can entertain perspective and then drop it.”
“Curiosity is good, but creativity is greater.”
“It is mathematics which reveals every genuine truth, for it knows every hidden secret, and bears the key to every subtlety of letters; whoever then has the effrontery to study physics while neglecting mathematics, should know from the start that he will never make his entry into the portals of wisdom.”
“It isn t a coincidence that governments everywhere want to educate children. Government education, in turn, is supposed to be evidence of the state s goodness and its concern for our well-being. The real explanation is less flattering. If the government s propaganda can take root as children grow up, those kids will be no threat to the state apparatus. They ll fasten the chains to their own ankles.”
“The holes in your life are permanent. You have to grow around them, like tree roots around concrete; you mold yourself through the gaps.”
“True success is achieved by stretching oneself, learning to feel comfortable being uncomfortable.”