If you look at every flower individually, they look quite miserable. Put them together in a vase and they become a bouquet and that's quite attractive. I think about our community often in that way

Henri J.m. Nouwen
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  1. You cannot teach a man anything, you can only help him find it within himself. - Galileo Galilei

  2. It is easier to write a book with footnotes than the same book written so that children can understand it. - Fulton J. Sheen

  3. Those who know, do. Those that understand, teach. - Aristotle

  4. I never teach my pupils, I only attempt to provide the conditions in which they can learn. - Albert Einstein

  5. I’ve come to a frightening conclusion that I am the decisive element in the classroom. It’s my personal approach that creates the climate. It’s my daily mood that makes the weather. As a teacher, I possess a tremendous power to make a child’s life miserable... - Haim G. Ginott

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  1. To the world you may be one person but to one person you may be the world.

  2. Believe more deeply. Hold your face up to the light, even though for the moment you do not see.

  3. When we retire at night, we constructively review our day. Were we resentful, selfish, dishonest or afraid? Do we owe an apology? Have we kept something to ourselves which should be discussed with another person at once? Were we kind and loving toward all? What...

  4. I was not an atheist. Few people really are, for that means blind faith in the strange proposition that this universe originated in a cipher and aimlessly rushes nowhere.

  5. Indecision with the passing of time becomes decision.

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