"I'll never be able to fill my father's or grandfather's shoes, but hopefully I can stand on their shoulders and reach farther."

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Philippe Cousteau, Jr.

#Father Quotes #Shoes Quotes #Able Quotes

“God has been preparing me for what God had prepared for me.”
“I hate the idea that, when it comes to books and learning, hard is often seen as the opposite of fun. It's strange to me that we should be so quick to give up on a book or a math problem when we are so willing to grapple, for centuries if necessary, with a single level of Angry Birds.”
“In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what other people thought of me. I thought of myself as just painfully awkward and dorky. I had a lot of hair and was kind of weird. I sang a lot in the hallways.”
“The 'what should be' never did exist, but people keep trying to live up to it. There is no 'what should be,' there is only what is.”
“The church is not here to meet our needs. We are the church here to meet the needs of the world.”
“A limbo large and broad, since call'd The Paradise of Fools to few unknown.”
“True science teaches us to doubt and, in ignorance, to refrain.”

Source : Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine (1865) Pt 1, Ch. 2, Sect. VII
“To be human is to be broken and broken is its own kind of beautiful.”

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