"Life unexamined, is not worth living."

-- Democritus

#Live Life Quotes #Life Wisdom Quotes

“Oh come on Pam, they're funny. They're like humans but miniature...tea cup humans!”
“A professor is not one who knows, but one who professes to know, and [thus] is constantly in the position of inviting challenge. . . . He professes publicly where everyone is invited to come and challenge, [and] at any time he must be willing and able to defend it openly against all comers. The degree is originally a chivalric device-a gauntlet of defiance to all rivals-and not a safe rampart or dug-out for a scholar to hide behind in safe immunity from any challenge.”
“A few modern philosopher's assert that an individual's intelligence is a fixed quantity, a quantity which cannot be increased. We must protest and react against this brutal pessimism.... With practice, training, and above all, method, we manage to increase our attention, our memory, our judgment and literally to become more intelligent than we were before.”
“Forgive but do not forget, or you will be hurt again. Forgiving changes the perspectives. Forgetting loses the lesson.”

Source : FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 04, 2017
“The only weapon I've got is comedy”
“I think I like playing the bad girl. I like complicated. I like flawed, messed up complicated. It's more interesting.”
“Let us ask the Lord for this grace: that our hearts become free and filled with light, so that we can rejoice as children of God.”
“Was the crew well? Was I not? I had profited in many ways by the voyage. I had even gained flesh, and actually weighed a pound more than when I sailed from Boston.”

Source : Joshua Slocum (1985). “The Voyages of Joshua Slocum”, p.372, Sheridan House, Inc.

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