“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
Life“Without this playing with fantasy no creative work has ever yet come to birth. The debt we owe to the play of the imagination is incalculable.”
Imagination“Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness. It is far better take things as they come along with patience and equanimity.”
Life“One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feelings. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child.”
Teacher“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people.”
Best“The debt we owe to the play of imagination is incalculable.”
Imagination“Often the hands will solve a mystery that the intellect has struggled with in vain.”
Intelligence“We are born at a given moment, in a given place and, like vintage years of wine, we have the qualities of the year and of the season of which we are born. Astrology does not lay claim to anything more.”
Science“Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off.”
Great“The shoe that fits one person pinches another there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.”
Life“If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves.”
Change“The word 'happiness' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness.”
Happiness“Where love rules, there is no will to power and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”
Love“Man needs difficulties they are necessary for health.”
Health“Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.”
Parenting“Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams“Who has fully realized that history is not contained in thick books but lives in our very blood?”
History“A 'scream' is always just that - a noise and not music.”
Music“We should not pretend to understand the world only by the intellect. The judgement of the intellect is only part of the truth.”
Intelligence“We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them.”
Experience“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams who looks inside, awakes.”
Dreams“Shrinking away from death is something unhealthy and abnormal which robs the second half of life of its purpose.”
Death