#hip

High school teachers who want to get reluctant readers turned around need to give the students some say in the reading list. Make it collaborative: The students will feel ownership, and everyone will dig in. ↗

— Dave Eggers

#collaborative #dig #everyone #feel #get

Friendships in childhood are usually a matter of chance, whereas in adolescence they are most often a matter of choice. ↗

— David Elkind

#adolescence #chance #childhood #choice #friendships

We are concerned with the relationship between art and life. Contemporary art is only intelligible in terms of its relationship to our life. ↗

— David Elliott

#between #concerned #contemporary #contemporary art #intelligible

Submission, when it is submission to the truth — and when the truth is known to be both beautiful and merciful — has nothing in common with fatalism or stoicism as these terms are understood in the Western tradition, because its motivation is different. According to Fakhr ad-Din ar-RazT, one of the great commentators upon the Quran: The worship of the eyes is weeping, the worship of the ears is listening, the worship of the tongue is praise, the worship of the hands is giving, the worship of the body is effort, the worship of the heart is fear and hope, and the worship of the spirit is surrender and satisfaction in Allah. ↗

— Fakhr ad-Din ar-Razi

#fatalism #islam #quran #stoicism #worship

Don't find fault, find a remedy. ↗

— Henry Ford

#fault #find #remedy

Mine is just a simple old human story - of one person trying, with great rigor and discipline, to comprehend her personal relationship with divinity. ↗

— Elizabeth Gilbert

#discipline #divinity #great #her #human

The Net interprets censorship as damage and routes around it. ↗

— John Gilmore

#censorship #damage #interprets #net #routes

Hip-hop is a cultural expression - it's embracing. ↗

— Nikki Giovanni

#embracing #expression #hip-hop

Design can have such a positive impact on the way people live and on their relationships and moods. ↗

— Genevieve Gorder

#impact #live #moods #people #positive

It would be nice if I did have a good relationship with my family, and yes, part of me longs to have a mum and dad who love and accept me for who I am. But if they never do, it's OK. ↗

— Heather Graham

#am #be nice #dad #did #family