"A search always starts with Beginner's Luck and ends with the Test of the Conqueror."

-- Paulo Coelho

#Luck Quotes #Tests Quotes #Beginners Quotes

“The actions of bad men produce only temporary evil, the actions of good men only temporary good ; and eventually the good and the evil altogether subside, are neutralized by subsequent generations, absorbed by the incessant movements of future ages. But the discoveries of great men never leave us; they are immortal; they contain those eternal truths which survive the shock of empires, outlive the struggles of rival creeds, and witness the decay of successive religions.”

Source : Henry Thomas Buckle (1865). “History of Civilization in England: In Five Volumes”, p.208
“There have been various pesticides that have been properly tested, that have been registered and then have been used and later on they've been discoveredthat they can create harm, like in the case of this Oftanol that was being used here (in Sacramento, against the Japanese beetle). Now they find that it can cause problems at least to animals. So we stopped using it.”
“I'd like to grow very old as slowly as possible.”
“Art is the imagination at play in the field of time. Let yourself play.”
“The fact is that the mind is only a bundle of thoughts. The mind is fattened by new thoughts rising up. Therefore it is foolish to attempt to kill the mind by means of the mind. The only way of doing it is to find its source and hold on to it. The mind will then fade away of its own accord.”
“I don't think you should just do what makes you happy. Do what makes you great. Do what's uncomfortable and scare and hard but pays off in the long run... let yourself fail. And pick yourself up and fail again. Without that struggle, what is your success anyway?”

Source : Charlie Day's Commencement Address at Merrimack College in North Andover, Massachusetts, www.businessinsider.com. May 21, 2014.
“Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.”

Source : Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult
“Ireland, Italy and Brazil are the most musical places for me. They're extremely musical cultures and anything you pitch they basically catch.”

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