"Either life entails courage, or it ceases to be life."

-- E. M. Forster

#Courage Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Honestly, I don't want to worry about the trivial feelings here. I have nothing and I still have a far way to go. There's no time for me to hesitate. The people around me force me to hesitate.”
“The world is, of course, nothing but our conception of it.”
“I don't know what I think until I write it down.”

Source : "Joan Didion Survives 'The Year of Magical Thinking'". Interview with Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. September 30, 2005.
“I used to lift very heavy weights in my mid-twenties - I used to bench press over 300lb. The most I ever lifted was 330lb; I couldn't do that today, no way.”
“You have a winner and a loser and that doesn't bother me, I am man enough to accept that.”
“Nobody, from that standpoint, is any luckier than I am or will ever be any luckier than I am. It's great.”
“When the song of the angels is stilled, When the star in the sky is gone, When the kings and princes are home, When the shepherds are back with their flock, The work of Christmas begins: ...To find the lost, To heal the broken, To feed the hungry, To release the prisoner, To rebuild the nations, To bring peace among brothers, To make music in the heart.”

Source : Howard Thurman (2006). “Howard Thurman: Essential Writings”
“Mathematics began to seem too much like puzzle solving. Physics is puzzle solving, too, but of puzzles created by nature, not by the mind of man.”

Source : "A Course in Mathematical Methods for Physicists". Book by Russell L. Herman, p. 53, December 4, 2013.

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