Kindness

 "Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love." 

- Lao Tse

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Real value

"Joy, feeling one's own value, being appreciated and loved by others, feeling useful and capable of production are all factors of enormous value for the human soul." 

- Maria Montessori
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Life

"All of life is peaks and valleys. Don't let the peaks get too high and the valleys too low." 

 - John Wooden

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Education is a work of self-organization

"Education is a work of self-organization by which man adapts himself to the conditions of life." 

 - Maria Montessori

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Adjust the action steps

  "When it is obvious that the goals cannot be reached, don't adjust the goals, adjust the action steps." 

- Confucius

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Infuse your life with action

"Infuse your life with action. Don't wait for it to happen. Make it happen. Make your own future. Make your own hope. Make your own love. And whatever your beliefs, honor your creator, not by passively waiting for grace to come down from upon high, but by doing what you can to make grace happen... yourself, right now, right down here on Earth."

- Bradley Whitford
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......all of which have the potential to turn a life around

"Too often we underestimate the power of a touch, a smile, a kind word, a listening ear, an honest compliment, or the smallest act of caring, all of which have the potential to turn a life around."

 - Leo Buscaglia

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