Now I'd rather be infected with love for the tiniest sliver of a second than live a hundred years smothered by a lie.
And when I wake up it's wonderful, like I've been carried quietly onto a calm, peaceful shore, and the dream, and its meaning, has broken over me like a wave and is ebbing away now, leaving me with a single, solid certainty. I know now.
Most people would like to be delivered from temptation but would like it to keep in touch.
'T is better to be lowly born, And range with humble livers in content, Than to be perked up in a glistering grief, And wear a golden sorrow.
The best current evidence is that media are mere vehicles that deliver instruction but do not influence student achievement any more than the truck that delivers groceries causes change in our nutrition.
My past is my wisdom to use today. . . my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides.
When the student is ready. . . the lesson appears.
Every path serves a purpose.
Perhaps all the questions we ask of love, to measure, test, probe, and save it, have the additional effect of cutting it short. Perhaps the reason we are unable to love is that we yearn to be loved, that is, we demand something (love) from our partner instead of delivering ourselves up to him demand-free and asking for nothing but his company.