True teachers are those who use themselves as bridges over which they invite their students to cross; then, having facilitated their crossing, joyfully collapse, encouraging them to create their own.

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"The human soul is heavy, clumsy, held in the mud of the flesh. Its perceptions are still coarse and brutish. It can divine nothing clearly, nothing with certainty."

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"The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet."

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"In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can."

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"In order to succeed. We must first believe that we can."

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""In order to succeed, we must first believe that we can.""

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"The expert in anything was once a beginner."

- Helen Hayes

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"Learn as if you will live forever, live like you will die tomorrow."

- Mahatma Gandhi

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"To know how much there is to know is the beginning of learning to live."

- Dorothy West

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"In the beginner’s mind, there are many possibilities; in the expert’s mind, there are few."

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"I am always doing what I cannot do yet in order to learn how to do it."

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