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You shall not, for the sake of one individual, change the meaning of principle and integrity, nor endeavour to persuade yourself or me, that selfishness is prudence, and insensibility of danger security for happiness

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Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice

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Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you.

—Deepak Chopra  (via solunars)

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The Four Agreements:

1. Be Impeccable with your Word: Speak with integrity. Say only what you mean. Avoid using the Word to speak against yourself or to gossip about others. Use the power of your Word in the direction of truth and love.

2. Don’t Take Anything Personally
Nothing others do is because of you. What others say and do is a projection of their own reality, their own dream. When you are immune to the opinions and actions of others, you won’t be the victim of needless suffering.

3. Don’t Make Assumptions
Find the courage to ask questions and to express what you really want. Communicate with others as clearly as you can to avoid misunderstandings, sadness and drama. With just this one agreement, you can completely transform your life.

4. Always Do Your Best
Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse, and regret.

—The Four Agreements - Don Miguel Ruiz (via maddierose)

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If we begin to talk about education as a life process, as a natural part of human nature then we begin to move beyond the narrow standardized ideas of the industrial model and reach towards a education where people matter not as numbers, but as unique humans who are on the path of life that leads to learning and growth.

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- David Loitz, Imagining Learning Seed Steward

Education as a Essential Gesture of Human Existence

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Why I teach and how I live.

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It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days…Lightly, lightly—it’s the best advice ever given me. So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly, my darling.

—Island, Aldous Huxley (via commovente)

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The most successful people recognize that in life they create their own love, they manufacture their own meaning, they generate their own motivation.

—Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via healthspiring)

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