"I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness."

-- Siddhartha Mukherjee

#Cancer Quotes #Ideas Quotes #Interesting Quotes

“Could there ever be a more wonderful story than your own?”

Source : Nichiren (2003). “The Writings of Nichiren Daishonin”
“I am of the African race, and in the colour which is natural to them of the deepest dye; and it is under a sense of the most profound gratitude to the Supreme Ruler of the Universe.”
“Take a saint, and put him into any condition, and he knows how to rejoice in the Lord.”
“Each small candle lights a corner of the dark.”

Source : Song: Each Small Candle
“Yesterday one has wished, to-day one attains the madly longed-for object, and to-morrow one will blush to think that one ever desired it.”

Source : Ivan Goncharov (2015). “Oblomov”, p.102, Sheba Blake Publishing
“I was pretty awkward when I was young, but I was never afraid of putting myself out there. I would say stupid things but then they would laugh at me and possibly find it endearing.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“The world we know at present is in no fit state to take over the dreariest little meteor ... If we have the courage and patience, the energy and skill, to take us voyaging to other planets, then let us use some of these to tidy up and civilize this earth. One world at a time, please.”
“The other day I got invited to a party, but I stayed home instead. Just me and my pal Johnny Walker and his brothers Black and Red.”

Source : Song: I Drink Alone

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