We learn best when we care about what we are doing, when we have choices. We learn best when the work has meaning to us, when it matters. We learn best when we are using our hands and our minds.We learn best when the work we are doing is real and relevant.

- Dennis Littky

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

– George Bernard Shaw

I have been very blessed in my life and rewarded with good friends and good health. I am grateful and happy to be able to share this.

– Eric Idle

Let us remember that sorrow alone is the creator of great things.

– Ernest Renan

America is the student who defies the odds to become the first in a family to go to college – the citizen who defies the cynics and goes out there and votes – the young person who comes out of the shadows to demand the right to dream. That’s what America is about.

– Barack Obama

A huge part of swimming for me is I love it, and it is so much fun.

– Missy Franklin

Success is within reach of all people, but you can grasp it only when you realise the power within you.

– Stephen Richards

I enjoy being happy every day, and hopefully you can hear my happiness in my music. Life is beautiful.

– Christina Milian

The greatest healing therapy is friendship and love.

– Hubert H. Humphrey

Love yourself first and everything else falls into line. You really have to love yourself to get anything done in this world.

– Lucille Ball

Drawing is the only thing I’ve found in which I can lose myself completely. I love it. It started as something that relaxed me, but now it’s a struggle because I’m pushing myself. The day-to-day sketching is fraught.

– Peter Capaldi

It doesn’t matter where you come from, what you have or don’t have, what you lack, or what you have too much of. But all you need to have is faith in God, an undying passion for what you do and what you choose to do in this life, and a relentless drive and the will to do whatever it takes to be successful in whatever you put your mind to.

– Stephen Curry

Love is much nicer to be in than an automobile accident, a tight girdle, a higher tax bracket or a holding pattern over Philadelphia.

– Judith Viorst

My sun and my moon signs are mostly Cancer – it’s really strong. We’re deeply intuitive and sentimental. I really like to take care of people, nurturing them. I’m very passionate about the things I do and like to see people I love grow.

– Kali Uchis

Love is a better teacher than duty.

– Albert Einstein

A great empire, like a great cake, is most easily diminished at the edges.

– Benjamin Franklin

Tears are nature’s lotion for the eyes. The eyes see better for being washed by them.

– Christian Nestell Bovee

Reading the Bible will help you get to know the word, but it’s when you put it down and live your life that you get to know the author.

– Steve Maraboli

We started in 1976, jamming, and we played our first show on Valentine’s Day 1977, so we can mark 40 from there, or we can mark 40 from 1979 when we did our first record.

– Kate Pierson

Learning to trust is one of life’s most difficult tasks.

– Isaac Watts

Sympathy constitutes friendship; but in love there is a sort of antipathy, or opposing passion. Each strives to be the other, and both together make up one whole.

– Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The reason many people in our society are miserable, sick, and highly stressed is because of an unhealthy attachment to things they have no control over.

– Steve Maraboli

You be as angry as you need to be,” she said. “Don’t let anyone tell you otherwise. Not your grandma, not your dad, no one. And if you need to break things, then by God, you break them good and hard.”

– Patrick Ness

There are three constants in life… change, choice and principles.

– Stephen Covey

Most folks are as happy as they make up their minds to be.

– Abraham Lincoln

There is a thin line between the impossible and the possible – that is determination.

– Ogwo David Emenik