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“It takes a very long time to become young.”
― Pablo Picasso

“Sitting in the flickering light of the candles on this kerchief of sand, on this village square, we waited in the night. We were waiting for the rescuing dawn - or for the Moors. Something, I know not what, lent this night a savor of Christmas. We told stories, we joked, we sang songs. In the air there was that slight fever that reigns over a gaily prepared feast. And yet we were infinitely poor. Wind, sand, and stars. The austerity of Trappists. But on this badly lighted cloth, a handful of men who possessed nothing in the world but their memories were sharing invisible riches. ”
― Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand and Stars

“One might almost say that an apparition is human vision corrected by divine love. I do not see you as you really are, Joseph; I see you through my affection for you. The Miracles of the Church seem to me not to rest so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from afar off, but upon our perceptions being made finer, so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear what is there about us always.”
― Willa Cather, Death Comes for the Archbishop

“There is no God but one God and Art is his revealer; that’s my creed and I'll follow it to the end, to a hotter place than Pittsburgh if need be.”
― Willa Cather

“Friendship with oneself is all important, because without it one cannot be friends with anyone else in the world.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Every time you meet a situation you think at the time it is an impossibility and you go through the tortures of the damned, once you have met it and lived through it, you find that forever after you are freer than you were before.”
― Eleanor Roosevelt

“Motherhood is a choice you make everyday, to put someone else's happiness and well-being ahead of your own, to teach the hard lessons, to do the right thing even when you're not sure what the right thing is...and to forgive yourself, over and over again, for doing everything wrong.”
― Donna Ball, At Home on Ladybug Farm

“The only journey is the one within.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Ah, how good it is to be among people who are reading.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge

“Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.”
― Rainer Marie Rilke

“A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“If your daily life seems poor, do not blame it; blame yourself, tell yourself that you are not poet enough to call forth its riches; for to the creator there is no poverty and no poor indifferent place.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

“It seems to me that almost all our sadnesses are moments of tension, which we feel as paralysis because we no longer hear our astonished emotions living. Because we are alone with the unfamiliar presence that has entered us; because everything we trust and are used to is for a moment taken away from us; because we stand in the midst of a transition where we cannot remain standing. That is why the sadness passes: the new presence inside us, the presence that has been added, has entered our heart, has gone into its innermost chamber and is no longer even there, - is already in our bloodstream. And we don't know what it was. We could easily be made to believe that nothing happened, and yet we have changed, as a house that a guest has entered changes. We can't say who has come, perhaps we will never know, but many signs indicate that the future enters us in this way in order to be transformed in us, long before it happens. And that is why it is so important to be solitary and attentive when one is sad: because the seemingly uneventful and motionless moment when our future steps into us is so much closer to life than that other loud and accidental point of time when it happens to us as if from outside. The quieter we are, the more patient and open we are in our sadnesses, the more deeply and serenely the new presence can enter us, and the more we can make it our own, the more it becomes our fate.”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and greet each other. ”
― Rainer Maria Rilke

“¿Qué necesitan aprender los participantes para que sean capaces de llevar a cabo determinado objetivo de desempeño?”
― Juanita Hernandez, Cómo Diseñar Sesiones Dinámicas de Aprendizaje: Una Guía para Preparar Clases que Encantan a Tus Estudiantes (Liderazgo Moral nº 4)

“Un maestro de tercero básico estaba enseñando a sus alumnos sobre las capas de la tierra.  Decidió incorporar a todas las inteligencias posibles. Primero, contó una historia a los niños sobre un viaje al centro de la tierra (lingüística).  Luego, les pidió explicar cómo se sentirían al participar en un viaje así (intrapersonal). Seguidamente, les pidió que hicieran un modelo con diferentes colores de plastilina mostrando las capas de la tierra (visual, cinética). En la clase de matemáticas les dio problemas relacionados con la temperatura y el grosor de las diferentes capas. En música aprendieron una canción sobre el tema. Finalmente, los dividió en parejas y pidió a cada uno que elaborara 3 preguntas sobre el tema para hacer a su compañero y que contestara las preguntas que el otro le hici”
― Juanita Hernandez, Cómo Diseñar Sesiones Dinámicas de Aprendizaje: Una Guía para Preparar Clases que Encantan a Tus Estudiantes (Liderazgo Moral nº 4)