Emily > Emily's Quotes

“Imagination does not become great until human beings, given the courage and the strength, use it to create.”
― Maria Montessori

“The greatest sign of success for a teacher is to be able to say, "The children are now working as if I did not exist.”
― Maria Montessori

“Stories are the single most powerful weapon in a leader’s arsenal”
― Howard Gardner

“Time amid the silence of nature, in other words, makes you smarter.”
― Michael Finkel, The Stranger in the Woods: The Extraordinary Story of the Last True Hermit

“Although some might really prefer you behave yourself and not climb all over the furniture in joy or all over people in welcome, do it anyway. Some will draw back from you in fear or disgust. Your lover, however, will cherish this new aspect of you—if he or she be the right lover for you.”
― Clarissa Pinkola Estés, Women Who Run With the Wolves: Myths and Stories of the Wild Woman Archetype