937 – “Love is not affectionate feeling, but a steady wish for the loved person’s ultimate good as far as it can be obtained.”

-C S Lewis

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922 – “I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”

-anonymous

912 – “The world can be seen as only connections, nothing else. We think of a dictionary as the repository of meaning, but it defines words only in terms of other words. I liked the idea that a piece of information is really defined only by what it’s related to, and how it’s related. There really is little else to meaning. The structure is everything.”

-Tim Berners-Lee

853 – “It doesn’t matter who you are or what you look like so long as somebody loves you.”

–Narrator in Roald Dahl’s The Witches

849 – “For the two of us, home isn’t a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.”

–Anna Oliphant in Stephanie Perkins’ Anna and the French Kiss

839 – “Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can’t expect them to help protect and care for it.”

–David Suzuki

835 – “[A good teacher] brings knowledge and his pupil into a vital relationship; and the object of teaching is to establish that relationship on an intelligible basis. This can only be done … by appealing to two qualities which are at the bottom of all knowledge, curiosity and observation. They are born with us, every child naturally develops them, and it is the duty of the teacher to direct them to proper ends.”

–Mandell Creighton [See Source for full Context]

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