#om

The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#cheerfulness #most #sign #wisdom

Les expériences dangereuses, le monde les accepte dans le domaine de l’art parce qu’il ne prend pas l’art au sérieux, mais il les condamne dans la vie. ↗

— Jean Cocteau

#common-sense #life #opinions #art

If help and salvation are to come, they can only come from the children, for the children are the makers of men. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#come #help #makers #men #only

The teacher must derive not only the capacity, but the desire, to observe natural phenomena. The teacher must understand and feel her position of observer: the activity must lie in the phenomenon. ↗

— Maria Montessori

#capacity #derive #desire #feel #her

Eternity: a moment standing still for ever. ↗

— James Montgomery

#ever #moment #standing #still

Do I mind losing? No, because losses and wins are just the bricks on the path to success. Both losing and winning are needed to find prosperity.
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— Jarod Kintz

#brick-and-blanket-iq-test #brick-and-blanket-responses #brick-and-blanket-test #brick-and-blanket-uses #funny

So while it is true that I find really dark stuff funny sometimes, it's also true that as a writer of books I want to have the whole range of human emotions. ↗

— Rick Moody

#books #dark #emotions #find #funny

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. ↗

— Mario Monti

#come #culture #gradually #hold #i

In the area of macroeconomic policies, I think we'll see more centralization, like in the budgetary sphere. ↗

— Mario Monti

#budgetary #centralization #economic policies #i #i think

Like other antitrust agencies we make our assessment of a merger or antitrust case based on its impact on our jurisdiction, and not on the nationality of the companies. This is exactly what the U.S. antitrust agencies, the Justice Department and the FTC, do. ↗

— Mario Monti

#antitrust #assessment #based #case #companies