Education is…

“Education is not the filling of a pail , but the lighting of a fire”
-W.B.Yeats

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A Prayer for Peace, Growth, and Recovery

A Prayer for Peace, Growth, and Recovery
Lord, make me an instrument of your peace.
Where there is hatred…let me sow love.
Where there is injury…pardon.
Where there is doubt…faith.
Where there is despair…hope.
Where there is darkness…light
Where there is sadness…joy.
Oh Divine Master, grant that I may not so much seek to be consoled…as to console.
To be understood…as to understand.
To be [...]

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

“People are like stained-glass windows.
They sparkle and shine when the sun is out,
but when the darkness sets in,
their true beauty is revealed only if there is a light from within”

-Elizabeth Kubler-Ross

Elisabeth Kubler-Ross, a psychiatrist who revolutionized the way the world looks at terminally ill patients with her book On Death and Dying and later as [...]

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Vincent Van Gogh

 
“The key to success is for you to make a habit throughout your life of doing the things you fear.”

Vincent Van Gogh

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Albert Einstein

 
Every day I remind myself that my inner and outer life are based on the labors of other men, living and dead, and that I must exert myself in order to give in the same measure as I have received and am still receiving.
Albert Einstein

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Mahatma Gandhi

 

“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the ocean are dirty, the ocean does not become dirty”

Mahatma Gandhi

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William Shakespeare

All the world’s a stage

Jaques:
All the world’s a stage,
And all the men and women merely players;
They have their exits and their entrances,
And one man in his time plays many parts,
His acts being seven ages.
William Shakespeare
As You Like It Act 2, scene 7, 139–143

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