Persisting

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish. – Ben Franklin

Be nothing

To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing. – Elbert Hubbard

New starts

Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. - Carl Bard

Demading Love

Though I want and need love, I won’t demand it. -Les Carter

Thinking and Acting

Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought. – Henri Bergson

Why things go wrong

Things don't go wrong and break your heart so you can become bitter and give up. They happen to break you down and build you up so you can be all that you were intended to be. – Charles T. Jones

The Beginning

There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning. – Louis L’Amour

When life buries you

There were two groups... those who didn't die and those who came back to life.
Ester Perel

Discontent

There are two brands of discontent: the brand that merely fosters greed and snarling and back-biting, and the brand that inspires greater and greater effort to reach the desired goal. What is your brand? - BC Forbes

Standing

There are an infinity of angles at which one falls. Only one at which one stands. - GK Chesterton

The Best Teachers

The best teachers... sometimes discard or place less emphasis on traditional goals in favor of the capacity to comprehend, to use evidence to draw conclusions, to raise important questions, and to understand one’s thinking. In most disciplines, that means they emphasize comprehension, reasoning, and brilliant insights over memory, order punctuality, or the spick-and-span.

Spelling, the size of margins or fonts, and the style of footnotes and bibliographies are trivial in comparison to the power to think on paper; conceptual understanding of chemistry is more important than remembering individual details; the capacity to think about one’s thinking - to ponder metacognitively – and to correct it in progress is far more worthy than remembering any name, date, or number.

The ability to understand the principles and concepts in thinking critically through a problem outranks any capacity to reach the correct answer on any particular question. These teachers want their students to learn to use a wide range of information, ideas, and concepts logically and consistently to draw meaningful conclusions. They help their students achieve those levels by providing meaningful directions and exemplary feedback that quietly yet forcefully couple lofty ideals with firm confidence in what students can do – without making any judgments of their worth as human beings. Most significant, they help students shift their focus from making the grade to thinking about personal goals of development.

Ken Bain
What the Best College Teachers Do

The growth opportunities

Take special (and more) time to carefully analyze the unexpected results (successes and failures); that's where the growth opportunities lie.

Disarming anger and lust

The surest means of disarming an anger or a lust (is) to turn your attention from the girl or the insult and start examining the passion itself. – CS Lewis

Success comes

Success usually comes to those who are too busy to be looking for it.
Henry David Thoreau

Measuring Success

Success is to be measured not so much by the position that one has reached in life as by the obstacles which he has overcome. – Booker T. Washington