Critical Lenses
“The hero is one who
kindles a great light in the world, who sets up blazing torches in the dark streets of life for men to see by. The saint is
the man who walks through the dark paths of the world, himself a light.”
-Felix Adler
“Some people believe that holding on and hanging in there are
signs of great strength. However, there are times when it takes much more strength to know when to let go - - and then to
do it.
-Ann Landers
“The secret to mastery in any field is to forever
be a student”
-Martin Palmer
“It is not
so much what you believe in that matters, as the way in which you believe it and proceed to translate that belief into action.”
Lin Yutang
“The true
meaning of humanity is learned when a man plants shade trees under which he knows full well he will never sit”.
D. Elton Trueblood
“Conventionality
is not Morality. “
Emily Bronte
“No man is
an island entire of itself. Everyman is a piece of a continent, a part of the main.”
John Donne
“Be a good
animal, true to your instincts.”
D.H. Lawrence
“We live as
we dream.”
Conrad
"If you tell the
truth, you don't have to remember anything. "
Mark Twain
"The purpose of literature is to educate the imagination to train
us to see what is possible"
-Northrup Frye
"Literature makes comprehensible the myriad ways in which
human beings meet the infinite possibilities that life offers"
-Louise Rosenblatt
“What lies behind us and what lies before us are
tiny matters compared to what lies within us.”
-Ralph Waldo Emerson
"The beautiful
thing about learning is that no one can take it away from you. "
-BB King
"To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is
one of the chief aims of education. Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false,
the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
-Martin Luther King Jr.
"Watch your thoughts; they become your words.
Watch your words; they become your actions.
Watch your actions; they become your habits.
Watch your habits; they become your character.
Watch your character; it becomes your destiny."
