Apple Seeds...
by Barb Erickson
Every morning Barb/MI posts an inspiring or thought-provoking quotation we refer to as an "Apple Seed" on the main chatboard http://teachers.net/chatboard. In each issue of the Gazette we'll post a compilation of the seeds from the previous month.
June 2002
Sa, 06-01:
Kindness is more important than wisdom, and the recognition of this is the beginning of wisdom.
~ Theodore Isaac Rubin
Su, 6-02:
Obstacles cannot crush me; every obstacle yields to stern resolve.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
Mo, 06-03:
A good teacher is one who helps you become who you feel yourself to be.
~ Julius Lester
Tu, 06-04:
A good teacher is one who says something that you won't understand until ten years later.
~ Julius Lester
We, 06-05:
Do what you love. Know your own bone; gnaw at it, bury it, unearth it, and gnaw it still.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Th, 06-06:
There are many persons ready to do what is right because in their hearts they know it is right. But they hesitate, waiting for the other person to make the first move -- and s/he, in turn, waits for you.
~ Marian Anderson
Fr, 06-07:
Don't let what you cannot do interfere with what you CAN do!
~ John Wooden
Sa, 06-08:
Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody has thought.
~ Albert von Szent-Gyorgi
Su, 06-09:
The most important outcome of education is to help students become independent of formal education.
~ Paul E. Gray
Mo, 06-10:
A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
~ Chinese proverb
Tu, 06-11:
Summer's lease has all too short a date.
~ William Shakespeare
We, 06-12:
Summer days call for light reading.
~ Unknown
Th, 06-13:
One must still have chaos in oneself to be able to give birth to a dancing star.
~ Friederich Nietzsche
Fr, 06-14:
It is by will alone that I set my mind in motion.
~ Memtat prayer
Sa, 06-15:
Trust in yourself. Your perceptions are often more accurate than you are willing to believe.
~ Claudia Black
Su, 06-16:
Few will have geatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events.
~ Robert F. Kennedy
Mo, 06-17:
Insist on yourself; never imitate.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tu, 06-18:
Look within. Within is the fountain of good, and it will ever bubble up, if thou wilt ever dig.
~ Marcus Aurelius
We, 06-19:
There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.
~ Lou Reed
Th, 06-20:
We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
~ Oscar Wilde
Fr, 06-21:
Believe nothing, no matter where you read it or who has said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.
~ the Buddha
Sa, 06-22:
If I am not I, who will be?
~ Henry David Thoreau
Su, 06-23:
Good people are good because they come to wisdom through failure.
~ William Saroyan
Mo, 06-24:
We must become the change we want to see.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
Tu, 06-25:
Everyone has been made for some particular work, and the desire for that work has been put in her/his heart.
~ Rumi
We, 06-26:
If you think you can or you think you can't, you are right.
~ Henry Ford
Th, 06-27:
Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.
~ John Barton
Fr, 06-28:
You give birth to that on which you fix your mind.
~ Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Sa, 06-29:
The best way to succeed in life is to act on the advice we give others.
~ Unknown
Su, 06-30:
A person is happy so long as s/he chooses to be happy, and nothing can stop her/him.
~ Alexander Solzhenitsyn
You can view past Apple Seeds at:
http://teachers.net/gazette/JUN02/seeds.html
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAY02/seeds.html
http://teachers.net/gazette/APR02/seeds.html
http://teachers.net/gazette/MAR02/seeds.html
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