"Just when you think you've hit rock bottom, you realize you're standing on another trapdoor."

-- Marisha Pessl

#Thinking Quotes #Rocks Quotes #Realizing Quotes

“Intern will resonate not only with doctors, but with anyone who has struggled with the grand question 'What should I do with my life?' In a voice of profound honesty and intelligence, Sandeep Jauhar gives us an insider's look at the medical profession and also a dramatic account of the psychological challenges of early adulthood.”
“It is not strange that that early love of the heart should come back, as it so often does when the dim eye is brightening with its last light. It is not strange that the freshest fountains the heart has ever known in its wastes should bubble up anew when the lifeblood is growing stagnant. It is not strange that a bright memory should come to a dying old man, as the sunshine breaks across the hills at the close of a stormy day; nor that in the light of that ray, the very clouds that made the day dark should grow gloriously beautiful.”
“When everyone has good players, teaching will be a telling difference.”
“Democracy opens new vistas and opportunities. We should use the opportunities it offers to correct past mistakes not to blunder anew.”
“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”

Source : "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.
“I find that the dead-end route is to try to describe what's going on in your mouth.”
“God has so framed us as to make freedom of choice and action the very basis of all moral improvement, and all our faculties, mental and moral, resent and revolt against the idea of coercion.”
“As we say in Berlin, there are many ways to bake a parrot.”

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