A.R.Maria Quotes

Who speaks of conquering? To endure is everything.

We were eighteen and had begun to love life and the world; and we had to shoot it to pieces.

Since I'm constantly in the sun, I use sunscreen daily.

He does not always remain bent over the pages; he often leans back and closes his eyes over a line he has been reading again, and its meaning spreads through his blood.

The only journey is the one within.

It seems to me that the only way one can be helpful is to extend one's hand to someone else involuntarily, and without ever knowing how useful this will be.

Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Do not despair if the answers don't come immediately. Some answers are only revealed with the passage of time.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart.

I want to unfold. Let no place in me hold itself closed, for where I am closed, I am false.

First the education of the senses, then the education of the intellect.

The work of the eyes is done. Go now and do the heart-work on the images imprisoned within you.

We have a hunger of the mind which asks for knowledge of all around us, and the more we gain, the more is our desire; the more we see, the more we are capable of seeing.

This is the treasure we need today - helping the child become independent of us and make his way by himself, receiving in return his gifts of hope and light.

shall I, for fear of feeble man who shall die, hold my peace? Shall I for fear of scoffs and frowns, refrain my tongue? Ah, no!

Keep things at arm's length... If you let anything come too near you want to hold on to it. And there is nothing a man can hold on to.

A child needs freedom within limits.

The future enters into us, in order to transform itself in us, long before it happens.

Perfectionism doesn't make you feel perfect. It makes you feel inadequate.

I don't get to do as much sightseeing as I would like to.

The more the capacity to concentrate is developed, the more often the profound tranquility in work is achieved, then the clearer will be the manifestation of discipline within the child.

Music acts like a magic key, to which the most tightly closed heart opens.

All the nations of the earth are crying out for liberty and equality. Away, away with tyranny and oppression!

Everything is gestation and then birthing.

Back in the day after I won my first pageant there was an agency that was getting me work on the side.

... but that's what mankind is like: they only prize what they no longer possess.

Every angel is terrifying.

There must be provision for the child to have contact with nature; to understand and appreciate the order, the harmony and the beauty in nature.

Preventing war is the work of politicians, establishing peace is the work of educationists.

I don't spend a lot of my time in the locker room. That's my least favourite place in the world.

I am honored to be a Bond girl and be a part of the Bond legacy, To star in a video game with Connery, the original Bond, is incredible.

Children become like the things they love.

It were a blessed sight to see That child become a willow tree, His brother trees among. He'd be four times as tall as me, And live three times as long.

Our care of the child should be governed, not by the desire to make him learn things, but by the endeavor always to keep burning within him that light which is called intelligence.

Peace in patriarchy is war against women.

We were all at once terribly alone; and alone we must see it through.

The unknown energy that can help humanity is that which lies hidden in the child.

A child's work is to create the person she/he will become.

Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.

A child's character develops in accordance with the obstacles he has encountered... or the freedom favoring his development that he has enjoyed.

Our deepest fears are like dragons, guarding our deepest treasure.

If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.

There is a world beyond ours, a world that is far away, nearby and invisible.

What batters you becomes your strength.

Establishing lasting peace is the work of education; all politics can do is keep us out of war.

We may draw good out of evil; we must not do evil, that good may come.

Character formation cannot be taught. It comes from experience and not from explanation.

Someone said to me once that a cigarette at the right moment is better than all the ideals in the world.

I do not have to forgive my enemies, I have had them all shot.

An artist's sphere of influence is the world.