"These scars are just cracks from the times the world knocked me over. I'm 99% staples, stitches and glue.
It's the 1% of me that's special enough to warrant these repairs" - Shane Koyzcan
It's the 1% of me that's special enough to warrant these repairs" - Shane Koyzcan
"You'll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It's a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it is education. It's history. It's poetry. . .I'm not trying to tell you that only educated and scholarly men are able to contribute something valuable to the world. It's not so." - MR. ANTOLINI J.D. Salinger's The Catcher in the Rye, p. 246 |
"[William] Faulkner said something HORRIBLE like: 'No one remembers Shakespeare's daughter.' And I just think that's THE WORST QUOTE I'VE EVER HEARD, you know, 'cause I think that in life there are ripple effects and, I think that one, you know, what could be more important than, you know, than making sure that your kids are fed and they're loved and that your spouse is taken care of. I mean that to me is always number one." ~ Austin Kleon, Sept. 19, 2013 Chase Jarvis LIVE interview |
“No matter what he does, every person on earth plays a central role in the history of the world. And normally he doesn’t know it.” - Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist |
"The life I touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. Our lives are linked together. No man is an island." - Frederick Buechner, The Hungering Dark
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"From the Desk of Professor S. Pangbord Perry, PhD NOTES FOR EXPERIMENT a) Recent scientific experiments indicate that a tiny, subatomic particle afloat in space may be paired up with another like particle in such a way that if the two are separated, even by distanced as wide as the whole universe, they still remain mysteriously connected. Whatever affects one affects the other, simultaneously. What joins them, even when they're apart? It's a mystery...But it's real. Scientists call it 'quantum entanglement,' Einstein called it 'spooky action at a distance.'" (p. 45).
- The Misadventures of Edgar & Allan Poe: The Tell-Tale Start
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We’re all human, aren’t we? Every human life is worth the same, and worth saving. |
40 “The King will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did for one of the least of these brothers and sisters of mine, you did for me.’
41 “Then he will say to those on his left, ‘Depart from me, you who are cursed, into the eternal fire prepared for the devil and his angels. 42 For I was hungry and you gave me nothing to eat, I was thirsty and you gave me nothing to drink, 43 I was a stranger and you did not invite me in, I needed clothes and you did not clothe me, I was sick and in prison and you did not look after me.’ 44 “They also will answer, ‘Lord, when did we see you hungry or thirsty or a stranger or needing clothes or sick or in prison, and did not help you?’ 45 “He will reply, ‘Truly I tell you, whatever you did not do for one of the least of these, you did not do for me.’" Matthew 25:40-45 |
"Shine so that you know...that those we call 'friend' add strength to our backbone when standing alone is something they can never let us do because they pack their bags, ready to travel with us past everything we go through, preparing to shine in the dark places, to tie together the shoelaces of boogeymen..." - Shane Koyzcan, "Shine," 3:23-3:40.
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"To the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world." - Bill Wilson, Author of Whose Child Is This?
Although perhaps a slightly trite quote, pair it with the 2004 movie, Shark Tale (Angie: "Oscar, you don't have to live at the top of the reef to be a somebody."), from which one of our class lessons actually pulls a clip. Also see Jamie Tworkowski's blog post, "Everybody is Somebody," which embraces the plot of The Amazing Spiderman 2 to relay a similar message about the equation of popularity - being a "somebody" - with individual worth ("Max recognizes Spider-Man, and it means the world to Max when Spider-Man says his name and tells him that he matters. Max has seen himself a nobody, but Spider-Man tells him he's a somebody....The thing that really stood out to me was Max's desire to be known. Even as he begins to become the villain, you can see that at his core, Max simply wants to matter, he wants to be significant").
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