Lauren Kop

“We can be knowledgeable with other men’s knowledge, but we can’t be wise with other men’s wisdom.”

Montaigne

how many people you touched > how many people you reached

“ “We won this war because our men are brave and because of many other things—because of Russia, England, and China and the passage of time and the gift of nature’s materials. We did not win it because destiny created us better than all other people. I hope that in victory we are more grateful than proud.”

Ernie Pyle, War Correspondent, in a posthum

“The heart cannot be taught in a classroom intellectually, to students mechanically taking notes…. Good, wise hearts are obtained through lifetimes of diligent effort to dig deeply within and heal lifetimes of scars…. You can’t teach it or email it or tweet it. It has to be discovered within the depths of one’s own heart when a person is finally re