"We set up a certain aim, and put ourselves of our own will into the power of a certain current. Once having done that, we find ourselves committed to usages and customs which we had not before fully known, but from which we cannot depart without giving up the end which we have chosen. But we have no right, therefore, to claim that we are under the yoke of necessity. We might as well say that the man whom we see struggling vainly in the current of Niagara could not have helped jumping in."

-- Anna Brackett

#Freedom Quotes #Giving Up Quotes #Struggle Quotes

“I would always love this fragile human girl, for the rest of my limitless existence.”
“The West didn't see our real situation, and we were blinded by the compliments coming from the Europeans and Americans.”

Source : Source: www.spiegel.de
“We can't all be Einstein (because we don't all play the violin). At the very least, we need a sort of street-smart science: the ability to recognize evidence, gather it, assess it, and act on it.”

Source : Judith Stone (1991). “Light Elements: Essays in Science from Gravity to Levity”, Ballantine Books
“I'd like to think the best of me was still hiding up in my sleeve.”
“By amending our mistakes, we get wisdom. By defending our faults, we betray an unsound mind.”
“Philosophy does provide me a structure and a way of thinking. Religion - like the religion I grew up with, Mormonism - also provides a way of thinking. And I think those two structures - one highly logical, the other anything but - are always part of my thought process as I'm putting together a story.”

Source : Source: logger.believermag.com
“Of all the arts the living of a life is perhaps the greatest; to live every moment of life with the same imaginative commitment as the poet brings to a special field.”
“I hope the Vandals had thorns in their sandals”

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