"There is a determined though unseen bravery that defends itself foot by foot in the darkness against the fatal invasions of necessity and dishonesty. Noble and mysterious triumphs that no eye sees, and no fame rewards, and no flourish of triumph salutes. Life, misfortunes, isolation, abandonment, poverty, are battlefields that have their heroes; obscure heroes, sometimes greater than the illustrious heroes."

-- Victor Hugo

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“Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.”
“More fundamental than religion is our basic human spirituality. We have a basic human disposition towards love, kindness and affection, irrespective of whether we have a religious framework or not. When we nurture this most basic human resource - when we set about cultivating those basic inner values which we all appreciate in others, then we start to live spiritually.”
“It is easy to live multiple lives! What is hard is to be a whole person”

Source : Kim Stanley Robinson (2015). “Green Earth”, p.673, Del Rey
“If 'Trek' is a hit, we'd love to do a series of films - a regular event. Look at James Bond's films. They've been around since the early sixties.”
“The lure of the distant and the difficult is deceptive. The great opportunity is where you are.”

Source : John Burroughs (1908). “The Writings of John Burroughs: Leaf & tendrill”
“The Westerner is less a person than a continuing adaptation. The West is less a place than a process.”
“Some of the Fathers went so far as to esteem the love of music a sign of predestination, as a thing divine, and reserved for the felicities of heaven itself.”

Source : Sir William Temple, Jonathan Swift (1757). “The Works of Sir William Temple Bart,: Complete in Four Volumes Octavo. : To which is Prefixed, The Life and Character of the Author”, p.429
“I'm not sure if I know any 'functional' families, if functional means a family without difficult times and members who don't have a full range of problems.”

Source : David Sheff (2009). “Beautiful Boy: A Father's Journey Through His Son's Addiction”, p.14, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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