"May God grant you a dream so humanly impossible that its improbable success can only point to His glory, not your own."

~Jonathan Acuff

"A good teacher is like a candle- she consumes herself to light the way for others."

~Anonymous  

"Worry implies that we don't quite trust that God is big enough, powerful enough, or loving enough to take care of what's happening in our lives."

~Francis Chan  

"Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable of being."

~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe 

"Faith makes all things possible, hope makes all things work, and love makes all things beautiful."

~Pastor Igor

"What a teacher thinks she teaches often has little to do with what students learn."

~Susan Ohanian 

"Change your thoughts and you change your world."

~Norman Vincent Peale  

"A problem is a chance for you to do your best."

~Duke Ellington

Friday, September 21, 2012

"You never know whose eyes God is watching you through."

~Denver Moore

"Loving God means loving people; and loving people means making a difference for God."

~Ron Hall

"To see things the way they truly are, sometimes you have to look more deeply."

~Don Thomas 

"Sometimes you can only understand why things happen when you see them in the rear-view mirror."

~Anonymous  

"I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be."

~Douglas Adams

"Secrets lose their power when they are no longer secrets."

~Theresa Flores  

"When one door of happiness closes, another opens; but often we look so long at the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us."

~Helen Keller  

"You gain strength, courage, and confidence by every experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.  You must do the thing which you think you cannot do."

~Eleanor Roosevelt

Thursday, September 13, 2012

"Life is not measured by the breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away."

~Anonymous

"It's always helpful to learn from your mistakes because then your mistakes seem worthwhile."

~Garry Marshall

"One person can make a difference, and every person should try."

~John F. Kennedy  

"Your students may not always remember what you taught them, but they will always remember how you treated them."

~Anonymous  

"Students who don't quite fit in for one reason or another sometimes just need a helping hand- not necessarily to help them reach, but to help them connect."

~Vicki Caruana 

"I have the power to mold, to nurture, to hold, to hug, to love, to cajole, to praise...to point out pathways...to become part of another person's well-being.  What could be more powerful?"

~Marva Collins  

Friday, September 7, 2012

"The best teachers teach from both the head and the heart."

~Harry Wong  

"A smile is a light to tell people that your heart is connected with theirs."

~Lynn Birdsong

"A smile is easier to produce than a frown."

~Harry Wong  

"Ours is not the business of producing doctors, lawyers, teachers, nurses, scientists, policemen, sales people, factory workers, or high test scores.  Ours is the business of producing smiles on young faces, happiness in young hearts, and dreams in young minds.  The rest will take care of itself."

~Dan Seufert  

"The heart of education is the education of the heart."

~Harry Wong  

"Students are influenced more by the depth of your conviction than the height of your intelligence."

~Harry Wong  

"I have come to a frightening conclusion.  I am the decisive element in the classroom.  It is my personal approach that creates the climate.  It is my daily mood that makes the weather.  As a teacher, I possess tremendous power to make a child's life miserable or joyous.  I can be a tool of torture or an instrument of inspiration.  I can humiliate or humor, hurt or heal.  In all situations, it is my response that decides whether a crisis will be escalated or de-escalated, and a child humanized or dehumanized."

~Haim Ginott