"We need to be angels for each other, to give each other strength and consolation. Because only when we fully realize that the cup of life is not only a cup of sorrow but also a cup of joy will we be able to drink it."

-- Henri Nouwen

#Angel Quotes #Giving Quotes #Joy Quotes

“Give no time to finding fault of criticism.”
“Dogs, ye have had your day!”
“I played English football - soccer - instead of American football, because we couldn't afford the equipment.”
“Aerodynamics is for those who cannot manufacture good engines.”
“As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan
“A large part of my work has been collaborating with composers; I think we've commissioned about 140 pieces now, a lot of them percussion concertos.”
“There was nothing that I ever did, no conscious effort to do one kind of behavior or another, I can't explain what it was, but I can explain that the thinking of the time was that we didn't want to emulate our heroes. That wasn't kosher. 'Don't try to play the old cliches, play like yourself' - that's what people were saying”
“Getting to meet people that I've admired my entire life, and getting to meet them in such a way where they're coming in to play completely different characters than I had ever seen them do is just wonderful.”

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