education

A truly educated man never ceases to learn. He never ceases to grow. I hope you women, as you take upon yourselves the burden of rearing families, will never set aside the desire to acquire knowledge.

I hated the flashcards and I hated the multiplication tables, but I did enjoy the fact that my dad took time out of his schedule to help me in the areas in which I needed it.

To learn, we must first listen.

When you love yourself, you love your spirit, so everyone can feel it, because everyone is a spiritual being.

It is a sinful abomination for one part of the world's Christians to grow richer year by year while our brothers and sisters ache and suffer for lack of minimal health care, minimal education, and even__n some cases__nough food to escape starvation.

Possession of wealth is not the happiness but expression of gratitude for the possession is the happiness.

Those born in the poorest quarter of American society have an 8% chance of earning a college degree. Those born in the wealthiest quarter of American society have a 75% chance of earning a college degree.

The truth is this: The rich will rule even at a place like Oberlin, where their kind is technically forbidden. They will simply invert the power structure to suit their needs. They will come out on top no matter what. Stuyvesant was hard but hopeful; Oberlin, on the other hand, reminds me yet again how the world works. I guess that's why they call it an education.

My life's misery and tragedy is my wealth and splendor.

We inherited a strong and flourishing country, and instead of making the investments - that is, the sacrifices - to maintain it, we chose to suck it dry and stick our children with the bill. If you want to see who is to blame for student debt, just look in the mirror. And if parents find themselves supporting kids beyond their college years, that is only, in the aggregate, a form of compensatory justice: the intergenerational transfer of wealth that should have been effected through taxation.

I am happy because my happiness does not depend on things, but on my thoughts.

Happiness depends on our thoughts and actions, not on wealth, splendor, or external conditions.

Three things will make you happy: always have happy thoughts, be honest to yourself, and express unconditional love for everything.

Youth is to wander! Adult is to act! Age is to assimilate the beauty of thoughts.

When you are non-judgmental, you are happy. Happiness depends on you, on your thoughts, on your attitude, on your ideas and vision, and nothing else.

Happiness is in simplicity. To be happy, always try to have happy thoughts.

Dancing is a expression of desire, thoughts, and emotion in a distinctive way.

To be happy, follow the heart not the thoughts.