"Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry." Mark Twain
Prompt: What defines a good life?
"A man's real worth is determined by what he does when he has nothing
to do."
Prompt: How does community service build self-worth?
"You can't hold a man down without staying down with him." Booker T. Washington
Prompt: Why are people sometimes mean?
“Great is the human who has not lost his childhood heart." Mencius (4th century B.C.)
Prompt: Why is it important to keep your "childhood heart"?
Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go." T. S. Eliot
Prompt: Would you try something new, even though you faced the possibility of failure?
"Experience is a hard teacher. She gives the test first, the lesson afterwards." Vernon Law
Prompt: What life experience has taught you an important lesson?
"Getting an idea should be like sitting on a pin; it should make you jump up and do something." E.L. Simpson
Prompt: Do you act on ideas, or let them pass you by? Recall a missed opportunity or taken opportunity.
"The real purpose of books is to trap the mind into doing its own thinking." Christopher Morley
Prompt: What have you learned from reading books?
"The simplest and shortest ethical precept is to be served by others as little as possible, and to serve others as much as possible." Tolstoy
Prompt: What benefits does one reap from being in a service-oriented field?
"The mark of an immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while the mark of the mature man is that he wants to live humbly for one." Wilhelm Stekel
Prompt: How would you interpret this quotation; what lesson does it hope to teach.
"Give a man a fish, and you feed him for one day; teach him to fish---and you feed him for a lifetime." Native American saying
Prompt: Would you rather do things yourself or have others do for you? Why?
"If we begin with certainties, we shall end in doubts; but if we begin with doubts, and are patient, we shall end in certainties." Francis Bacon
Prompt: What does this quotation mean; what type of person are you---closed-minded or open-minded?
"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." Buddha (6th century B.C.)
Prompt: How does this saying promote higher thinking?
"The soul is born old but grows young. That is the comedy of life. And the body is born young and grows old. That is life's tragedy." Oscar Wilde
Prompt: Another well known saying is that “youth is wasted on the young”; what are these quotations saying about life’s irony?
"You can tell more about a person by what he says about others than you can by what others say about him." Leo Aikman
Prompt: Rephrase the quotation and offer an example of of its meaning.
"A fallacy that makes me glad is worth a truth that makes me sad." Christoph Martin Wieland
Prompt: This quotation promotes lying. What are the circumstances and why is it sometimes a good thing to lie?
"Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of nonessentials." Lin Yutang
Prompt: What does this quotation mean. Give an example from your own life that would attest to the accuracy of this statement.
"We should be taught not to wait for inspiration to start a thing. Action always generates inspiration. Inspiration seldom generates action." Frank Tibolt
Prompt: What kind of person are you as related to this quotation? Do you have to be coaxed to action or do you act first, then feel inspired?
"Common sense is genius dressed in its working clothes." Ralph Waldo Emerson
Prompt: What are the benefits of common sense over brilliance?
"The most wasted of all our days are those in which we have not laughed." Nicolas-Sebastien de Chamfort
Prompt: This is a lesson about how one should live life? Do you agree or disagree? Why or why not?
"Education is the ability to listen to almost anything without losing your temper or your self-confidence." Robert Frost
Prompt: Why is this an important tool for teaching and learning?
"We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give." Norman MacEwan
Prompt: Explain this quotation by offering an example in your own life. Why is generosity worth more than money?
“Imagination is more important than knowledge." Einstein
Prompt: Do you agree or disagree? Offer an example of your point of view?
"The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism." Norman Vincent Peale
Prompt: What does this quotation mean? Do you agree? How well do you take criticism and what is the value in it?
"Experience is not what happens to you; it is what you do with what happens to you." Aldous Huxley
Prompt: Think of a bad experience you’ve had, then state if this saying is true or false as related to your experience.
"Speech is civilization itself. The word, even the most contradictory word, preserves contact---it is silence that isolates." Thomas Mann
Prompt: Why is it important to voice concerns, opinions and beliefs. What would happen if we kept these things to ourselves?
"Education should teach us to play the wise fool rather than turn us into the solemn ass." Kenneth Eble
Prompt: The word “sophomore” means wise fool. Explain what this saying is trying to teach us?
"I would rather be the man who bought the
Prompt: What is this person trying to say about the our character traits as humans?
"The worst sin towards our fellow-creatures is not to hate them but to be indifferent to them; that's the essence of inhumanity." George Bernard Shaw
"You think your pain and your heartbreak are unprecedented in the history of the world, but then you read. It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me with all the people who were alive, or who had ever been alive." James Baldwin
"A word is not a crystal, transparent and unchanging, it is the skin of a living thought and may vary greatly in color and content according to the circumstances and time in which it is used." Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
"True politeness is perfect ease and freedom. It simply consists
in treating others just as you love to be treated yourself." Earl of