Learning Quotes (page 102)
![Pablo Picasso quote: "When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to..."](/pic/350605/600x316/quotation-pablo-picasso-when-i-was-a-kid-i-drew-like-michelangelo-it.jpg)
![Desmond Tutu quote: "It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn..."](/pic/350590/600x316/quotation-desmond-tutu-it-is-through-weakness-and-vulnerability-that-most.jpg)
It is useless to try to make peace with ourselves by being pleased with everything we have done. In order to settle down in the quiet of our own being we must learn to be detached from the results of our own activity. We must withdraw ourselves, to some extent, from the effects that are beyond our control and be content with the good will and the work that are the quiet expression of our inner life. We must be content to live without watching ourselves live, to work without expecting any...
Thomas Merton
In the rain forest, no niche lies unused. No emptiness goes unfilled. No gasp of sunlight goes untrapped. In a million vest pockets, a million life-forms quietly tick. No other place on earth feels so lush. Sometimes we picture it as an echo of the original Garden of Eden—a realm ancient, serene, and fertile, where pythons slither and jaguars lope. But it is mainly a world of cunning and savage trees. Truant plants will not survive. The meek inherit nothing. Light is a thick yellow vitamin...
Diane Ackerman
![Bono quote: "To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss..."](/pic/350039/600x316/quotation-bono-to-touch-is-to-heal-to-hurt-is-to-steal-if-you-want-to.jpg)
![Henry Wadsworth Longfellow quote: "The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet..."](/pic/349924/600x316/quotation-henry-wadsworth-longfellow-the-love-of-learning-the.jpg)
![William Cowper quote: "Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is..."](/pic/349918/600x316/quotation-william-cowper-knowledge-is-proud-that-he-has-learned-so-much.jpg)