It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Leo BuscagliaRead
We need to learn to let go as easily as we grasp and we will find our hands full and our minds empty.
Interpretation
Letting go can bring peace and clarity to our lives.
In this quote, Leo Buscaglia emphasizes the importance of learning to release our attachments and burdens with the same ease that we hold onto things. By letting go of excess baggage, we create space for new experiences and maintain a clear and peaceful mind, allowing us to fully enjoy life.
In practice
During a motivational speech about personal growth and healing.
It is paradoxical that many educators and parents still differentiate between a time for learning and a time for play without seeing the vital connection between them.
Life is a great and wondrous mystery, and the only thing we know that we have for sure is what is right here right now. Don't miss it.
Only when we give joyfully, without hesitation or thought of gain, can we truly know what love means.
Life lived for tomorrow will always be just a day away from being realized.
Don't spend your precious time asking "Why isn't the world a better place?" It will only be time wasted. The question to ask is "How can I make it better?" To that there is an answer.
To love others you must first love yourself.
During the Arab Spring, I learned all sorts of things from Twitter. I wouldn't necessarily trust that information, but it gave me ideas about questions to ask. You can really learn things from the wisdom of crowds.
For the young people here: practicality is a good thing. There are times where compromise is necessary. That's part of wisdom. But it's also important to hang on to what you believe.
Talent! There's no such thing as talent. What they call talent is nothing but the capacity for doing continuous hard work in the right way.
If you don't like what you're doing, it's unlikely anyone else will either, so be sure you are happy with your own work first.
He hath not eat paper, as it were; he hath not drunk ink; his intellect is not replenished; he is only an animal, only sensible in the duller parts. (Shakespeare, Love's Labor's Lost, IV)
Basically you have to suppress your own ambitions in order to be who you need to be.
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