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Being always overavid, I demand from those I love a love equal to mine, which, being balanced people, they cannot supply.
When love turns away, now, I don't follow it. I sit and suffer, unprotesting, until I feel the tread of another step.
When I teach people, I marry them.
You must be true to yourself. Strong enough to be true to yourself. Brave enough to be strong enough to be true to yourself. Wise enough to be brave enough to be strong enough to shape yourself from what you actually are.
Not just part of us becomes a teacher. It engages the whole self - the woman or man, wife or husband, mother or father, the lover, scholar or artist in you as well as the teacher earning money ...
...the more violent the boy, the more I see that he creates, and when he kicks the others with his big boots, treads on fingers on the mat, hits another over the head with a piece of wood or throws a stone, I put clay in his hands, or chalk. He can create bombs if he likes or draw my house in flame, but it is the creative vent that is widening all the time and the destructive one atrophying, however much it may look to the contrary. And anyway I have always been more afraid of the weapon unspoken than of the one on the blackboard.
I've got to relearn what I was supposed to have learned.
Children have two visions, the inner and the outer. Of the two the inner vision is brighter.
It is not so much the content of what one says as the way in which one says it. However important the thing you say, what's the good of it if not heard or, being heard, not felt?
What a desire! ... to live in peace with that word: Myself.
As the blackness of the night recedes so does the nadir of yesterday. The child I am forgets so quickly.
I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.
How much of my true self I camouflage and choke in order to commend myself to him, denying the fullness of me. How often have I paraded sweetness and interest when I felt otherwise; pretended to take careful leave of him on many an occasion when I would rather have walked right out. How I've toned myself down, diluted myself to maintain his approval.
Love has the quality of informing almost everything - even one's work.
I flung my tongue round like a cat-o'-nine-tails so that my pleasant peaceful infant room became little less than a German concentration camp as I took out on the children what life should have got.
To feel as well as hear what someone says requires whole attention.
I am my own Universe, I my own Professor.
Education, fundamentally, is the increase of the percentage of the conscious in relation to the unconscious. It must be a developing idea.
I never forgive attacks on my work.
Inspiration is the richest nation I know, the most powerful on earth. Sexual energy Freud calls it; the capital of desire I call it; it pays for both mental and physical expenditure.
It's just as possible to live to the full in a narrow corner as it is in bigness.
So often I have said in the past, when a war is over, the statesmen should not go into conference one with another, but should turn their attention to the infant rooms, since it is from there that comes peace or war.
There is only one answer to destructiveness and that is creativity.
A comforting acquaintance, hope, a contagious thing like spring, inebriating like lager.