"The lure of happiness and the fear of pain . . . are the two forces which have through untold millenniums kept what we usually call life from destruction by the ever encroaching outside forces of destruction."

-- Luther Burbank

#Pain Quotes #Two Quotes #Destruction Quotes

“As to people saying a few idle words about us, we must not mind that, any more than the old church steeple minds the rooks cawing about it.”
“When I was five I learned to read. Books were a miracle to me - white pages, black ink, and new worlds and different friends in each one. To this day, I relish the feeling of cracking a binding for the first time, the anticipation of where I'll go and whom I'll meet inside.”
“We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.”
“Social media has changed everything in our world. The collective humanity, as it was, has such a voice these days, and that's never really existed before.”
“It's not about ideas. It's about making ideas happen.”
“The most important thing that everyone should bring to the dining experience is a certain generosity of spirit. Just remember that there are two kinds of people: lovers and others. And you know what you can do with the others.”
“While I live, every criminal must die.”

Source : "Age of Reason Begins: Volume 7", by Will and Ariel Durant, (p. 240), 1961.
“I'm glad . . . that Edison didn't give up on the light bulb. That Luther refused to back down. That Michelangelo kept painting. That Lindbergh kept flying.”

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