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Where love rules, there is no will to power, and where power predominates, love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other. - Author object (290)

The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. - Author object (290)

The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves. - Author object (290)

An understanding heart is everything in a teacher, and cannot be esteemed highly enough. One looks back with appreciation to the brilliant teachers, but with gratitude to those who touched our human feeling. The curriculum is so much necessary raw material, but warmth is the vital element for the growing plant and for the soul of the child. - Author object (290)

The best political, social, and spiritual work we can do is to withdraw the projection of our shadow onto others. - Author object (290)

If there is anything that we wish to change in the child, we should first examine it and see whether it is not something that could better be changed in ourselves. - Author object (290)

We cannot change anything unless we accept it. - Author object (290)

Every human life contains a potential, if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted... - Author object (290)

The true leader is always led. - Author object (290)

The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. - Author object (290)

Shame is a soul eating emotion. - Author object (290)

The first half of life is devoted to forming a healthy ego, the second half is going inward and letting go of it. - Author object (290)

It is better to offer no excuse than a bad one. - Author object (521)

It is better to be alone than in bad company. - Author object (521)

The inner voice is something which cannot be described in words. But sometimes we have a positive feeling that something in us prompts us to do a certain thing. The time when I learnt to recognise this voice was, I may say, the time when I started praying regularly. - Author object (115)

Fearlessness is the first requisite of spirituality. Cowards can never be moral. - Author object (115)

Love doesn't just sit there like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new. - Author object (297)

We read books to find out who we are. What other people, real or imaginary, do and think and feel... is an essential guide to our understanding of what we ourselves are and may become. - Author object (297)

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy? - Author object (297)

People who deny the existence of dragons are often eaten by dragons. From within. - Author object (297)