“All the best things and treasures of this world are not to be produced by each generation for itself; but we are all intended, not to carve our work in snow that will melt, but each and all of us to be continually rolling a great white gathering snow-ball, higher and higher, larger and larger, along the Alps of human power.” WorldHumansWhiteProgressGenerationsThis WorldHigherBallsTreasureSnowBest ThingsRollingGatheringAll The BestHuman PowerAlps Book:Works: Source: Works:
“The child's true constructive energy, a dynamic power, has remained unnoticed for thousands of years. Just as men have trodden the earth, and later tilled its surface, without thought for the immense wealth hidden in its depths, so the men of our day make progress after progress in civilized life, without noticing the treasures that lie hidden in the psychic world of infancy.” MenWorldYearsChildrenEarthLyingEnergyWealthProgressHe ManDepthSurfaceTreasureCivilizedImmensePsychicsConstructiveNoticingInfancyUnnoticed Author:Maria Montessori
“... the progress of the language has caused us to lose many old treasures. It is thus with all progress, and one must make the best of it.” LanguageLosesProgressTreasureMake The Best Of It Book:The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable). Source: The Haunted Pool: (La Mare Au Diable).
“Now it has appeared to me unfair that humanity should be engaged perpetually in calling all those things bad which have been good enough to make other things better, in everlastingly kicking down the ladder by which it has climbed. It has appeared to me that progress should be something else besides a continual parricide; therefore I have investigated the dust-heaps of humanity, and found a treasure in all of them. I have found that humanity is not incidentally engaged, but eternally and systematically engaged, in throwing gold into the gutter and diamonds into the sea.” ShouldHas BeensEnoughHumanityFoundProgressSeaCallingGoldTreasureDustEngagedGood EnoughThrowingDiamondUnfairLaddersKickingGutters Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton
“To meet someone who really hurts you is to meet a rare and precious treasure. Hold that person in high esteem, and make full use of the opportunity to eradicate your defects and make progress on the path. If you cannot yet feel love and compassion for those who treat you badly, it is a sign that your mind has not been fully transformed and that you need to keep working on it with increased application.” IfsNeedsFeelsMindPersonsUseOpportunityHurtCompassionPathProgressTreatsTreasureEsteemApplicationTransformedDefectsLove And Compassion Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche
“That great political idea, sanctifying freedom and consecrating it to God, teaching men to treasure the liberties of others as their own and to defend them for the love of justice and charity more than as a claim of right, has been the soul of what is great and good in the progress of the last two hundred years.” MenYearsHas BeensTwoIdeasSoulLastsPoliticalJusticeLibertyProgressTeachingHundredClaimsCharityTreasureGreat Political Book:The History of Freedom: Great Event Source: The History of Freedom: Great Event
“We have to treasure our country, our freedom, the progress we've made, and if we see any of that threatened, we have to respond.” IfsMadeCountryProgressTreasureOur CountryThreatened Author:Barbara Boxer