#earning

The longing for sweets is really a yearning for love or "sweetness. ↗

— Marion Woodman

#food #longing #love #sweetness #sweets

My new favorite quote is, "Feed kids Cokes and french fries and you get an obesity crisis. Feed them mental junk food and you get non-readers and poor thinkers. ↗

— Joy Hakim

#food

The more you test him, the slower he will learn and the less he'll want to do. The less you test him, the quicker he will learn and the more he'll want to learn. Knowledge is the most precious gift you can give your child. Give it as generously as you give him food. ↗

— Glenn Doman

#learning #parenting #food

There are probably other things in the world the sheep can't teach me, thought the boy as he regarded the old merchant. All they ever do really is look for food and water. And maybe it wasn't that they were teaching me but that I was learning from them. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#food

I look in the mirror through the eyes of the child that was me. ↗

— Judy Collins

#forgiveness #growing #hope #learning #love

It took me 42 years to write this song, and 5 minutes to sing it." [On The Heart of the Matter, during the Eagles' Hell Freezes Over tour.] ↗

— Don Henley

#learning #lessons #letting-go #life #forgiveness

But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness. I want sin. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#hunger #thirst #yearning #freedom

I heard this story once," she said, "where this bloke got locked up for years and years and he learned amazin' stuff about the universe and everythin' from another prisoner who was incredibly clever, and then he escaped and got his revenge." "What incredibly clever stuff do you know about the universe, Gytha Ogg?" said Granny. "Bugger all," said Granny cheerfully. "Then we'd better bloody well escape right now. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#learning #prison #humor

There is a master way with words which is not learned but is instead developed: a deaf man develops exceptional vision, a blind man exceptional hearing, a silent man, when given a piece of paper... ↗

— Criss Jami

#building-up #compression #creativity #deaf #development

Maybe we were all destined to just keep doing the same stupid things, over and over again, never really learning a single thing. ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#learning #lesson #life #people #stupid-things