"There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; suffering has to enter in for them to come to be."

-- Leon Bloy

#Death Quotes #Heart Quotes #Suffering Quotes

“I think my motto is to always remain focused on what it is that youre trying to accomplish.”
“There's a battle going on inside you in Ramadan, and for 30 days Allah gives you the power to win.”
“Any piece of knowledge which the pupil has himself acquired- any problem which he has himself solved, becomes, by virtue of the conquest, much more thoroughly his than it could else be. The preliminary activity of mind which his success implies, the concentration of thought necessary to it, and the excitement consequent on his triumph, conspire to register the facts in his memory in a way that no mere information heard from a teacher, or read in a schoolbook, can be registered.”
“Life doesn't have a neat beginning and a tidy end; life is always going on. You should begin in the middle and end in the middle, and it should be all there.”

Source : V. S. Naipaul (2012). “Half a Life”, p.74, Pan Macmillan
“Your â€˜brandâ€™ is what your customers think of you, not what you think of you.”
“And I continued to grow until I was 25 years old.”
“We live in more pragmatic times than when we originally recorded those songs. But many of the dreamers of the '60s have been elected to governmental office or taken on a leadership role in their communities. They are now in the position to make a difference.”
“The need for general scientific understanding by the public has never been larger, and the penalty for scientific illiteracy never harsher... Lack of scientific fundamentals causes people to make foolish decisions about issues such as the toxicity of chemicals, the efficacy of medicines, the changes in the global climate.”

Source : Nobel Banquet Speech, www.nobelprize.org. December 10, 2003.

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