#om

How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home. ↗

— William Faulkner

#nostalgia #strange

The world is 3 days: As for yesterday, it has vanished along with all that was in it. As for tomorrow, you may never see it. As for today, it is yours, so work on it. ↗

— Hasan Al-Basri

#wisdom #islam

The happiness of the drop is to die in the river. ↗

— Al-Ghazali

#knowledge #sufism #wisdom #islam

If everything seems under control, you're not going fast enough. ↗

— Mario Andretti

#speed #startups #wisdom #race

Non-judgment quiets the internal dialogue, and this opens once again the doorway to creativity. ↗

— Deepak Chopra

#creativity #deepak-chopra #educational #inner-self #inner-voice

It's a rare book that wins the battle against drooping eyelids. ↗

— Tracy Chevalier

#drowsiness #insomnia #reading #sleepy #winning

Oh, Eva." He rubbed his cheek against my damp face. "I must've wished for you so hard and so often you had no choice but to come true. ↗

— Sylvia Day

#gideon-cross #choice

The plain fact is that education is itself a form of propaganda - a deliberate scheme to outfit the pupil, not with the capacity to weigh ideas, but with a simple appetite for gulping ideas ready-made. The aim is to make 'good' citizens, which is to say, docile and uninquisitive citizens. ↗

— H.L. Mencken

#homeschool #homeschooling #education

The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river. ↗

— Jiddu Krishnamurti

#achievement

Knowledge which is acquired under compulsion has no hold on the mind. Therefore do not use compulsion, but let early education be a sort of amusement; you will then be better able to discover the child's natural bent. ↗

— Plato

#homeschool #homeschooling #learning #education