"Relearn astonishment, stop grasping for knowledge, lose the habit of the past." 驚きを学び直し、知識を得ようとするのをやめ、昔の習慣は無くしなさい。 Elias...

原書は2005年に出版されていますが、翻訳版は2019年。随分時間が経っちゃってるので、内容的に古い部分があるかと思いきや、そうでもなくて、きっと今もNYの高校ってこんなだろうなと思います。（もちろん、コロナ禍を抜きにしての話です。）Vocational...

"You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end each of us must work for his own improivement."...

"I used to listen to Dr. King in chapel... One of the things I liked about him was that he didn't pretend to be a great powerful...

If it rains, let it rain, If the wind blows, let it blow. 雨降らば降れ、風吹かば吹け。 Ikkyu, 15th-century Japanese poet 一休宗純（室町時代の僧） 一休さんって、詩人でもあったんですね。

We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope. 限りのある失望は受け入れなければならないが、無限の希望を無くしてはならない。 Martin Luther King Jr....

Consider - We are born not with purpose, but with potential. 目的を持って生まれたんじゃなくて、可能性を持って生まれたって考えよう。 Octavia E. Butler...

"They say the first sentence in any speech is always the hardest. Well, that one's behind me, anyway." Wislawa Szymborska /...

"The key to my motivation has always been to look at how far I had still to go rather than how far I had come." A.P.I. Abdul Kalam /...

"Going was easy. Keep on going was hard." Ursula K. Le Guin /アーシュラ・K・ル＝グウィン（アメリカの作家） その通り！続けることが大事。

今年の日めくりはこれ。「冷静に戦い続けろ！」第二次世界大戦で、もしドイツがイギリスに上陸してきたら使う予定だったポスターとの事。今はこれの変化版が色々出てますよね。 This calender, inspired by the original poster, has...

I think that the willingness and the courage to keep on trying develops best if there is someone we love close by who can lend us some of...

One of the most essential ways of saying, "I love you," is by careful listening - listening with "the ear of the heart."...

There's something unique about being a member of a family that really needs you in order ro function well. 家族がうまく機能するために、あなたが家族の一員である必要がある。

2015年のオバマ大統領のSummer Book Listに載っていて、所属していたBook Clubでも課題図書になっていたので、買ってはいたのですが積読状態だった本。やっと読み終わりました。短い章が積み重なる書き方の本なので、眠くて無理〜という日も、じゃあ１章だけ頑張る...

It takes strength to talk about our feelings and to reach out for help and comfort when we need it. 自分の感情を話したり、必要な時に助けや癒やしを求めるのには強さが必要です。

”Growing on the inside" are the words I use when I talk with children about such things as learning to wait, learning to keep on trying,...

（The) "growing on the inside" signs of growth need at least as much notice and applause as the outword kind, and children need to feel...

My grandfather was one of those people who loved to live (and) teach. Every time I was with him, he'd show me something about the world...

The difficult truth is that there are real limits to how much comfort we can bring to loved ones when they hurt....