Learns Quotes (page 102)

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• learning
• kids
• drawing

When I was a kid I drew like Michelangelo. It took me years to learn to draw like a kid. Pablo Picasso

• learning
• soul
• compassion

It is through weakness and vulnerability that most of us learn empathy and compassion and discover our soul. Desmond Tutu

• peace
• watch
• contentment

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

• silence
• learning
• sometimes

You can listen to silence, Reuven. I’ve begun to realize that you can listen to silence and learn from it. It has a quality and a dimension all its own. It talks to me sometimes. I feel myself alive in it. It talks. And I can hear it. Chaim Potok

• lies
• light
• garden

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

• loneliness
• lyrics
• love

I have learned to be steady in my course of love, or fear, or loneliness, rather than impulsive in its wasting, either lyrically or emotionally. Rosanne Cash

• time
• learning
• history

With the rise of chiefdoms around 7,500 years ago, people had to learn, for the first time in history, how to encounter strangers regularly without attempting to kill them. Jared Diamond

• education
• author
• wild

I now realize that education is a last wild effort on the part of the authorities to prevent an overdose of leisure from driving the world mad. Learning is no longer an improver; it is merely the most expensive time-filler the world has ever known. Quentin Crisp

• touching
• hurt
• kiss

To touch is to heal, to hurt is to steal, if you want to kiss the sky, better learn how to kneel - on your knees boy! Bono

• sad
• learning
• sadly

I learned that getting mad was easier than being sad. Emily Giffin

• learning
• teaches
• rigorous

...teaching was the most rigorous form of learning. Kim Stanley Robinson

• love
• book
• learning

The love of learning, the sequestered nooks, And all the sweet serenity of books." ~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

• learning
• wisdom
• humble

Knowledge is proud that he has learned so much. Wisdom is humble that he knows not more. William Cowper

• learning
• feeling
• maturity

Venting every feeling isn't mature. Learning to deal with uncomfortable and unpleasant feelings is an important aspect of maturity. Laura Schlessinger

• learning
• world
• sees

We've learned to see the world in gasps. Margaret Atwood