#ear

The test of every religious, political, or educational system is the man which it forms. If it injures the intelligence, it is bad; if it injures the character, it is vicious; if it injures the conscience, it is criminal. ↗

— Amiel

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education

If we let go of the past, we will never learn from our mistakes. ↗

— Sarah van Waterschoot

#life #past #life

This is a story about survival. Letting go and learning to let in. Getting along and moving on. The truth about life. The things left unsaid... ↗

— Nadège Richards

#letting-go #life #moving-on #moving-on-and-letting-go #survival-story

The best day of my life used to be the day I asked you to marry me onstage in Pittsburgh, but as memorable as that was, today has been even better. ↗

— Olivia Cunning

#sed-lionheart #life

When the most important things in our life happen we quite often do not know, at the moment, what is going on. A man does not always say to himself, "hullo! i'm growing up." It is only when he looks back that he realises what has happened and recognises it as what people call "growing up. ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#lessons-learned #life #man #life

Poverty entails fear and stress and sometimes depression. It meets a thousand petty humiliations and hardships. Climbing out of poverty by your own efforts that is something on which to pride yourself but poverty itself is romanticized by fools. ↗

— J. K. Rowling

#depression #efforts #entails #fear #fools

You know what my father said about innocent clients? ... He said the scariest client a lawyer will ever have is an innocent client. Because if you fuck up and he goes to prison, it'll scar you for life ... He said there is no in-between with an innocent client. No negotiation, no plea bargain, no middle ground. There's only one verdict. You have to put an NG up on the scoreboard. There's no other verdict but not guilty." Levin nodded thoughtfully. "The bottom line was my old man was a damn good lawyer and he didn't like having innocent clients," I said. "I'm not sure I do, either. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#criminal-law #fear #guilt #innocence #justice

I think that the thing I most want you to remember is that research is a ceremony. And so is life. Everything that we do shares in the ongoing creation of our universe. ↗

— Shawn Wilson

#methodologies #research #life

I gave in to life. I was not defeated but outplayed. ↗

— Ivo Andrić

#life

The truth is in the heart; out there is true darkness. ↗

— Toba Beta

#heart #life #secret #true #truth