Quotes by Teachers - Page 18

Misery is a routine you can learn to live with. It's like rain. Once you're soaked to the skin, you can't get any wetter.
Alan Gibbons
I clamped down on the sick, hurt feeling inside that threatened to make me burst into tears. My eyes dried instantly. I was good at hiding tears. I should be; I'd had three years to get good at it.
P.C. Cast
We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
Oswald Chambers
If I could just write it down in a piece of paper, then maybe she could get a decent night's sleep, eat a little of her dinner. Maybe she could have a minute's worth of peace.
Wally Lamb
My only defense is the acquisition of vocabulary.
Margaret Edson
Words are powerful. They too can be the agents of what is new, of what is conceivable and can be thought and let loose upon the world.
David Malouf
It has always been my custom to treat words with respect. I can recall the time...when I knew words would be my life's work
Margaret Edson
Books are in the mind, Grandfather Alessandro said. Too many books and you forget your body is in the world.
Tom Spanbauer
Her works are said to be too far from reality to be considered real literature. “Why doesn’t she write about life?” the people of Rabbit Back ask.
Pasi Ilmari Jääskeläinen
The responsibility of literatuure is to make people awake, present, alive. If the writer wanders, then the reader, too, will wander.
Natalie Goldberg
If a Manx cat tells you that it is trying to preserve its long, beautiful tail, you don't have to believe it - especially if you have eyes.
Idries Shah
Knowledge is something which you can use. Belief is something which uses you.
Idries Shah
Show me a person who really knows what 'good' is, and I will show you that he almost never uses the word.
Idries Shah
By the time these students enter the workforce, many of the jobs they will apply for ill be in industries that don't even exist yet. That's a hard future to prepare someone for. Teachers have their sights set on the real goal: not to produce Ivy League graduates, but to encourage the development of naturally curious, confident, flexible, and happy learners who are ready for whatever the future has in store.
Taylor Mali
The laziness of adolescence is a rehearsal for the incapacity of old age.
Idries Shah
...To see your life flow in obscurity among the treasures of the heart and of nature, happy in your anonymity, and to occasionally lose yourself in reading or in the pleasure of being a sensitive admirer of the fine arts; that’s the image of modern life you’re looking for!
Paul Amadeus Dienach
Dec. 31… “Let the past rest, but let it rest in the sweet embrace of Christ. Leave the broken, irreversible past in His hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
Oswald Chambers
Creativity occurs in the moment, and in the moment we are timeless.
Julia Cameron
Writing for the sake of writing, writing that draws its credibility from its very existence, is a foreign idea to most Americans. As a culture, we want cash on the barrel head. We want writing to earn dollars and sense so that it makes sense to us. We have a conviction—which is naive and misplaced—that being published has to do with being “good” while not being published has to do with being “amateur.” ...“Did you write today?”“Yes.”“Then you’re a writer today.”It would be lovely if being a writer were a permanent state that we could attain to. It’s not, or if it is, the permanence comes posthumously.A page at a time, a day at a time, is the way we must live our writing lives. Credibility lies in the act of writing. That is where the dignity is. That is where the final “credit” must come from.
Julia Cameron
I have no sympathy with the belief that art is the restricted province of those who paint, sculpt, make music and verse. I hope we will come to an understanding that the material used is only incidental, that there is artist in every man; and that to him the possibility of development and of expression and the happiness of creation is as much a right and as much a duty to himself, as to any of those who work in the especially ticketed ways.
Robert Henri
The end will be what it will be. The object is intense living, fulfillment; the great happiness in creation.
Robert Henri
In every human being there is the artist, and whatever his activity, he has an equal chance with any to express the result of his growth and his contact with life. I don't believe any real artist cares whether what he does is 'art' or not. Who, after all, knows what art is?
Robert Henri
Humans need to be a little crazy, spontaneous, unusual, free-flowing, and creative.
Stuart Wilde
Owning something also means owning up to something. It means accepting responsibility, which means, literally, responsibility. When we write about our lives we respond to them. As we respond to them, we are rendered more fluid, more centered, more agile on our own behalf. We are rendered conscious. Each day, each life, is a series of choices, and as we use the lens of writing to view our lives, we see our choices.
Julia Cameron
Working with the morning pages, we begin to sort through the differences between our real feelings, which are often secret, and our official feelings, those on the record for public display.
Julia Cameron
Creativity - like human life itself - begins in darkness.
Julia Cameron
That's when you stop being one way and start being another, Ruby said. Not something many people can do, or want to do. In fact, Ruby said, The only people who cross over, cross over because they're on some kind of Mission Impossible.I could no longer live and stay the way I was, I said.
Tom Spanbauer
Have some fun while you wait for the will of heaven.
Tom Spanbauer
When Fortune knocks, open the door,' they say. But why should one make fortune knock, by keeping the door shut?
Idries Shah
We are troubled by having two selves, the inner and the outer. The outer one is rather dull and lets great things go by.
Robert Henri
As writers we live life twice, like a cow that eats its food once and then regurgitates it to chew and digest it again. We have a second chance at biting into our experience and examining it. ...This is our life and it's not going to last forever. There isn't time to talk about someday writing that short story or poem or novel. Slow down now, touch what is around you, and out of care and compassion for each moment and detail, put pen to paper and begin to write.
Natalie Goldberg
You live and then you die, I thought. It's good to have some good times.
Natalie Goldberg
Mercy is stronger than your sword.
P.C. Cast
Never to whine; to accept what came; to wait for better; to take what you could; to let no one, not even yourself, know how near to giving in you were.
Robin Jenkins
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge
Idries Shah
The colour of the water seems to be the colour of the glass into which it has been poured
Idries Shah
The word 'choice' is a fraud while people choose only what they have been taught to choose.
Idries Shah
The stupidest man I ever met had a favourite saying. It was: 'What do you think I am, stupid, or something?
Idries Shah
When you realise the difference between the container and the content, you will have knowledge.
Idries Shah
RemedyYour medicine is in you, and you do not observe it. Your ailment is from yourself, and you do not register it.Hazrat Ali
Idries Shah
Sufis are those who have expunged from their minds the human tendencies of envy and enmity.
Idries Shah
When humility is exercised, people begin to realise that they do not, as it were, exist at all.
Idries Shah
There can be no spirituality, according to the Sufi masters, without psychology, psychological insight and sociological balance.
Idries Shah
Premature independence is the daughter of conceit.
Idries Shah
One of the great Sufis said: 'A saint is a saint unless he knows that he is one.
Idries Shah
Laziness is always your fault. It is the sign that a man has persevered in uselessness for too long.
Idries Shah
Remember the proverb: 'A sign is enough for the alert, but a thousand counsels are not enough for the negligent.
Idries Shah
Greed harms you: generosity helps you. This is why it has been said: 'Greed is the mother of incapacity'.
Idries Shah
if... says: 'Do not be greedy, be generous', you may inwardly interpret this in such a manner that you will develop a greed for generosity
Idries Shah
The Sufi is one who does what others do – when it is necessary. He is also one who does what others cannot do – when it is indicated.
Idries Shah
Most of the supposedly Sufi organizations, exercises and “orders” are in fact only of archaeological interest.
Idries Shah
However fast you run, or however skilfully, you can’t run away from your own feet.
Idries Shah
The lightning said to the oak tree: ‘Stand aside, or take what is coming to you!
Idries Shah
None should say: ‘I can trust,’ or ‘I cannot trust’ until he is master of the option, of trusting or not trusting.
Idries Shah
Sufism, they say, is that which enables one to understand religion, irrespective of its current outward form.
Idries Shah
A Sufi is alive to the value of time, and is given, every moment, to what that moment demands.
Idries Shah
The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.
Idries Shah
The tongue is the best masseur of furrowed brows.
Idries Shah
In the realm of Greater Understanding, the workshop is dismantled after the work is finished.
Idries Shah
What you are seeking in your retreat, I see clearly in every road and alleyway.
Idries Shah