"I would rather wear honest tears than the most beautiful and elaborately faked smile."

-- Tyler Knott Gregson

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“Every formula which expresses a law of nature is a hymn of praise to God.”

Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”
“Kids only learn that the stove is hot when they put their finger on and they burn it. This, unfortunately, is the limitation of our precious brain.”
“Faint not; the miles to heaven are but few and short.”
“The whole profit of the issuance of money has provided the capital of the great banking business as it exists today.”
“When a decision has to be made, make it. There is no totally right time for anything.”
“You see, I want a lot. Perhaps I want everything the darkness that comes with every infinite fall and the shivering blaze of every step up. So many live on and want nothing And are raised to the rank of prince By the slippery ease of their light judgments But what you love to see are faces that do work and feel thirst. You love most of all those who need you as they need a crowbar or a hoe. You have not grown old, and it is not too late To dive into your increasing depths where life calmly gives out its own secret.”
“Agape means recognition of the fact that all life is interrelated. All humanity is involved in a single process, and all men are brothers. To the degree that I harm my brother, no matter what he is doing to me, to that extent I am harming myself.”
“I want to be a living work of art”

Source : "The Divine Marquise" by Judith Thurman, www.newyorker.com. September 22, 2003.

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