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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. The "Apple Seeds" she posted during the month of June are compiled here.

June 2003

Su, 06-01:
Where are you going? What are you doing to get there?

~ Unknown

Mo, 06-02:
If you are not ready today, you will be even less so tomorrow.

~ Ovid

Tu, 06-03:
Happy are those whose life is today.

~ Ayi Kwei Armah

We, 06-04:
Education is not the piling on of learning, information, data, facts, skills, or abilities -- that's training or instruction -- but is rather a making visible of what is hidden as a seed.

~ Thomas Moore

Th, 06-05:
Acceptance of prevailing standards often means we have no standards of our own.

~ Jean Toomer

Fr, 06-06:
In teaching it is the method and not the content that is the message . . . the drawing out, and not the pumping in.

~ Ashley Montague

Sa, 06-07:
All growth is a leap in the dark.

~ Henry Miller

Su, 06-08:
Never be afraid to sit awhile and think.

~ Lorraine Hansberry

Mo, 06-09:
Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

~ James Joyce

Tu, 06-10:
Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never fires, and a touch that never hurts.

~ Charles Dickens

We, 06-11:
The key to everything is patience. You get the chicken by hatching the egg -- not by smashing it.

~ Ellen Glasgow

Th, 06-12:
Adversity causes some people to break, others to break records.

~ William A. Ward

Fr, 06-13:
Sweat plus sacrifice equals success.

~ Charlie Finley

Sa, 06-14:
You have no control over what the other person does. You only have control over what you do.

~ A. J. Kitt

Su, 06-15:
We keep going back, stronger, not weaker, because we will not allow rejection to beat us down. It will only strengthen our resolve. To be successful there is no other way.

~ Earl S. Graves

Mo, 06-16:
Memory is the cabinet of imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and the council chamber of thought.

~ St. Basil

Tu, 06-17:
A cynic can chill and dishearten with a single word.

~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

We, 06-18:
Don't be afraid of the space between your dreams and reality.

~ Belva Davis

Th, 06-19:
The great obstacle to discovering the shape of the earth, the continents, and the ocean was not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

~ Daniel J. Boorstin

Fr, 06-20:
The greater the obstacle, the more glory in overcoming it.

~ Moliere

Sa, 06-21:
We are what we repeatedly do.

~ Aristotle

Su, 06-22:
Afflictions are the steps to heaven.

~ Elizabeth Seton

Mo, 06-23:
Ideas shape the course of history.

~ John Keynes

Tu, 06-24:
Exceed expectations. We are not driven to do extraordinary things, but to do ordinary things extraordinarily well.

~ Bishop Gore

We, 06-25:
The soul that has no established aim loses itself.

~ Michel de Montaigne

Th, 06-26:
We are all wanderers on this earth. Our hearts are full of wonder and our souls are deep within dreams.

~ Gypsy saying

Fr, 06-27:
Action must be taken at once; there is no time to be lost.

~ Miguel Hildalgo

Sa, 06-28:
Be bold, and mighty forces will come to your aid.

~ Basil King

Su, 06-29:
It takes all sorts to make a world.

~ English proverb

Mo, 06-30:
The eleventh commandment:Don't let them scare you.

~ Unknown


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