"You go on. You set one foot in front of the other, and if a thin voice cries out, somewhere behind you, you pretend not to hear, and keep going."

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Source : Geraldine Brooks (2006). “March”, p.167, Penguin

Geraldine Brooks

#Perseverance Quotes #Persistence Quotes #Voice Quotes

“I have now come to a stage of realization in which I see that God is walking in every human form and manifesting Himself alike through the sage and the sinner, the virtuous and the vicious. Therefore when I meet different people I say to myself, â€œGod in the form of the saint, God in the form of the sinner, God in the form of the righteous, God in the form of the unrighteous.”
“All intelligent beings who are crowned with crowns of glory, immortality, and eternal lives must pass through every ordeal appointed for intelligent beings to pass through, to gain their glory and exaltation. Every calamity that can come upon mortal beings will be suffered ... to prepare them to enjoy the presence of the Lord. ... Every trial and experience you have passed through is necessary for your salvation.”

Source : Brigham Young (1861). “Journal of Discourses”, p.150
“You want to make him interested in you? Then pretend to be embarrassed in his presence-”
“Language is the memory of man. Without it he has no past, a paltry present, and an empty future. With it he can bring his dreams to life.”
“So, do I think I'm missing something? I really don't, and I think that comes with age.”
“[Gauss calculated the elements of the planet Ceres] and his analysis proved him to be the first of theoretical astronomers no less than the greatest of 'arithmeticians.'”

Source : "Mathematica: The Philomath's Quotation Book". Book by Robert Édouard Moritz, p. 157, 1942.
“If laying aside all worldly Greatness and Vain-Glory, I should be ask'd where I thought it was most probable that Men might enjoy true Happiness, I would prefer a small peaceable Society, in which Men, neither envy'd nor esteem'd by Neighbours, should be contented to live upon the Natural Product of the Spot they inhabit, to a vast Multitude abounding in Wealth and Power, that should always be conquering others by their Arms Abroad, and debauching themselves by Foreign Luxury at Home.”

Source : Bernard de Mandeville (1723). “The Fable of the Bees”, p.4, Jazzybee Verlag
“I once tried to make lace - which has been a great obsession of women - unsexy. And I achieved it.”

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