over the rainbow

"And above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it."


~Roald Dahl

“We are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be, whether we find them attractive company or not.
Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4am of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends.
We forget all too soon the things we thought we could never forget.”



~Joan Didion

Of heroes

"There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty.
Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes.
Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes."


~Les Misérables, Victor Hugo

i am...

i Love teachers.

" Teaching is a complex art of performance, intellect, innate instinct, patience, cultural awareness, and courage—perhaps one of the most complex professions around. It’s not a community-service pit stop on the way to a real career. It’s one of the hardest and most influential jobs a person can hold."

~Do It Anyway, Courtney E. Martin

"What is now proved was once only imagined.” – William Blake

Impatient.

"My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child;
its restlessness keeps growing and is forever the same.
Everything interests me, but nothing holds me.
I attend to everything, dreaming all the while..."

~Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet

Let Go.

It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.


~Albert Einstein

Commitment .

About a boy!

i Love books.

"I stepped into the bookshop and breathed in that perfume of paper and magic that strangely no one had ever thought of bottling"

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Angel’s Game

"Along with the idea of romantic Love, she was introduced to another—physical beauty.
Probably the most destructive ideas in the history of human thought.
Both originated in envy, thrived in insecurity, and ended in disillusion"

~The Bluest Eye, Toni Morrison

"When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two things: either there will be ground to stand on, or you will be given wings to fly"


~The Summer King, O.R. Melling

"When I was young, I believed that life might unfold in an orderly way, according to my hopes and expectations.
But now I understand that the Way winds like a river,
always changing, ever onward…
My journeys revealed that the Way itself creates the warrior; that every path leads to peace, every choice to wisdom. And that life has always been, and will always be, arising in Mystery.

~ Socrates

"It is curious that physical courage should be so common in the world, and moral courage so rare"



~Mark Twain

"Today I believe in the possibility of Love; that is why I endeavor to trace its imperfections, its perversions."


— Frantz Fanon

Obedience

"Civil disobedience is not our problem. Our problem is civil obedience.
Our problem is that people all over the world have obeyed the dictates of leaders…and millions have been killed because of this obedience…
Our problem is that people are obedient all over the world in the face of poverty and starvation and stupidity, and war, and cruelty.
Our problem is that people are obedient while the jails are full of petty thieves… (and) the grand thieves are running the country.
That’s our problem."


— Howard Zinn

“If you tremble indignation at every injustice then you are a comrade of mine ”


Ernesto 'Che' Guevara

"The stars, that nature hung in heaven, and filled their lamps with everlasting oil, give due light to the misled and lonely traveller.”
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~ John Milton

‎"When faced with two choices, simply toss a coin.

It works not because it settles the question for you,

but because, in that brief moment when the coin is in the air,
you suddenly know what you are
hoping for"

~anonymous

Miss Ross

Hang in there.