"My mother, a teacher, encouraged me to use my creativity as an actual way to make a living, and my father, a Mississippi physician, did two things. First, he taught me that all human beings should be treated equally because no one is better than anyone else, and he never pressured me to become a doctor."

-- Greg Iles

#Mother Quotes #Teacher Quotes #Father Quotes

“An odd contradiction, if the layman were correct in his unconscious assumption that an artist begins with reality and ends with art: the converse is true - to the degree that this dichotomy has any truth - the artist begins with art, and through it arrives at reality.”
“We become more successful when we are happier and more positive.”

Source : "The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work". Book by Shawn Achor, September 14, 2010.
“get back, get back! ill turn you into a piglet! ast a bula- no wait. that turns ME into a piglet!!”
“If cryonics were a scam it would have far better marketing and be far more popular.”
“You know, tigers are very unpredictable.”

Source : "Suraj Sharma, ‘Life Of Pi’ Star, Introduces Himself To The Rest Of The World". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. November 20, 2012.
“The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.”
“What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?”
“Love is the keynote, Joy is the music, Knowledge is the performer, the Infinite All is the composer and audience.”

Source : Sri Aurobindo Mandir, Calcutta, Aurobindo Ghose (1943). “Annual”

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