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A garden should make you feel you've entered privileged space -- a place not just set apart but reverberant -- and it seems to me that, to achieve this, the gardener must put some kind of twist on the existing landscape, turn its prose into something nearer poetry. ↗

— Michael Pollan

#gardening #landscape #nature #poetry #education

Leaders are not known by their positions; they are known by their roles in those position. You have many gifts as a leader, but your dominant gift is what you will use to lead. ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#dominant #dominant-gift #dominate #dominion #food-for-thought

We are very quiet there, but it is the quiet of a storm centre. . ↗

— Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.

#leadership #leadership

Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live. ↗

— Gustave Flaubert

#amuse #children #instruction #like #live

Give the pupils something to do, not something to learn; and the doing is of such a nature as to demand thinking; learning naturally results. ↗

— John Dewey

#educational-system #philosophy #education

Religion has convinced people that there's an invisible man ... living in the sky. Who watches everything you do every minute of every day. And the invisible man has a list of ten specific things he doesn't want you to do. And if you do any of these things, he will send you to a special place, of burning and fire and smoke and torture and anguish for you to live forever, and suffer, and suffer, and burn, and scream, until the end of time. But he loves you. He loves you. He loves you and he needs money. ↗

— George Carlin

#humor #life #religion #humor

I love to see a young girl go out and grab the world by the lapels. Life's a bitch. You've got to go out and kick ass. ↗

— Maya Angelou

#inspirational #life #humor

We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect. ↗

— Anaïs Nin

#qoutes-on-writing #writing #life

There is no knowing that does not begin with knowing God. ↗

— Jean Calvin

#knowledge #theology #education

He saw that science had become as great a hoax as religion, that nationalism was a farce, patriotism a fraud, education a form of leprosy, and that morals were for cannibals ↗

— Henry Miller

#morals #nationalism #religion #science #education