Quot Box

words echo through eternity

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“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.”

-Carl Jung

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“It is in playing and only in playing that the individual child or adult is able to be creative and to use the whole personality. And it is only in being creative that the individual discovers the self.

-D.W. Winnicott

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“The goal of education is not to increase the amount of knowledge but to create the possibilities for a child to invent and discover, to create men who are capable of doing new things”

-Jean Piaget

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“Morality is not just any old topic in psychology but close to our conception of the meaning of life. Moral goodness is what gives each of us the sense that we are worthy human beings”

-Steven Pinker

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“It's only when we truly know and understand that we have a limited time on earth - and that we have no way of knowing when our time is up, we will then begin to live each day to the fullest, as if it was the only one we had.” - Elisabeth Kübler-Ross

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“In the right place, at the right time, and in right degree, anger is not only appropriate but may be indispensable. It serves to deter from dangerous behaviour, to drive off a rival, or to coerce a partner. In each case the aim of the angry behaviour is the same - to protect a relationship which is of very special value to the angry person.”

- John Bowlby

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“Psychology is not just the study of weakness and damage; it is also the study of strength and virtue. Treatment is not just fixing what is broken; it is nurturing what is best within ourselves”

- Martin Seligman

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“The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived”

- Irvin Yalom

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“To deny people their human rights is to challenge their very humanity”

-Nelson Mandela

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I am just a child who has never grown up. I still keep asking these “how” and “why” questions. Occasionally, I find an answer.

- Stephen Hawking

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I love my country too much to be a nationalist

-Albert Camus

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We think too much and feel too little. More than machinery, we need humanity; more than cleverness, we need kindness and gentleness. Without these qualities, life will be violent and all will be lost. 

- Charlie Chaplin, in “The Great Dictator”

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Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

- Carl Sagan

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Καλότυχοι εκείνοι που δε γνώρισαν τον εαυτό τους ανδρείοι εκείνοι που αποσιώπησαν την αθωότητά τους μα ευλογημένοι αυτοί που τα δώσανε όλα κι ύστερα κοίταξαν έν’ άστρο σαν τη μόνη ανταπόδοση.

- Τάσος Λειβαδίτης

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“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think”

- Horace Walpole

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The eyes of others our prisons; their thoughts our cages

- Virginia Woolf

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No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible

- Voltaire