#pro

Play to your strengths.” “I haven’t got any,” said Harry, before he could stop himself. “Excuse me,” growled Moody, “you’ve got strengths if I say you’ve got them. ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#education #encouragement #exhortation #prophecy #education

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on. ↗

— Henry Cisneros

#direction #enthusiastic #given #people #plan

Her face felt like it was scattered in pieces and she could not keep it straight. The feeling was a whole lot worse than being hungry for any dinner, yet it was like that. I want--I want--I want--was all that she could think about--but just what this real want was she did no know. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#discontentment #humanity #improvement #life #longing

Education is not a problem. Education is an opportunity. ↗

— Lyndon B. Johnson

#opportunity #problem

When life gets you down, improvise as if crawling was part of the choreography. ↗

— Iveta Cherneva

#crawling #dance #down #improvise #life

Always try to be joyful and proactively benign to the people. By doing so everyday, people have no control at all over my mood. ↗

— Toba Beta

#control #happiness #joyful #life #mood

life unfolds itself in mysteries ways. ↗

— Kahlil Gibran

#life

We can't have any weak or silly. Life is real again, and the useless and cumbersome and mischievous have to die. They ought to die. They ought to be willing to die. It's a sort of disloyalty, after all, to live and taint the race. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#life

One of the greatest problems of our time is that many are schooled but few are educated. ↗

— Thomas More

#few #greatest #many #our #our time

The second mouse gets the cheese!" - The Inimitable Terry Pratchett ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#mouse #proverb #retort #education