Children whose curiosity survives parental discipline and who manage to grow up before they blow up are invited to join the Yale faculty. Within the university they go on asking their questions and trying to find the answers … it is a place where the world’s hostility to curiosity can be defied. ~ Edmund S. MorganTweetShareSharePin
Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquillity: the emotion is contemplated till, by a species of reaction, the tranquillity gradually disappears, and an emotion, kindred to that which ~ William WordsworthTweetShareSharePin
I have discovered that when we least care to admit it, we feel more confused than thankful, more caught than called, more worried than gracious. In humble moments when we can no longer gloss over the roughness of life, gratitude has a way of pushing out t ~ Patrick J. MaloneTweetShareSharePin
Corporation: An ingenious device for obtaining profit without individual responsibility. ~ Ambrose Gwinett BierceTweetShareSharePin
The essence of being human is that one does not seek perfection that one is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the inevitable price of fastening one’s love upon other human individuals. ~ George OrwellTweetShareSharePin
It is not giving children more that spoils them it is giving them more to avoid confrontation. ~ John GrayTweetShareSharePin