"We can't control whether we are rewarded for our endeavours, with cash or recognition. It is not up to us how much cash or time we get on Earth, but it is down to us how we spend it."

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Source : " What good luck to miss out on a £64m lottery win" by Julian Baggini, www.theguardian.com. December 6, 2012.

Julian Baggini

#Earth Quotes #Cash Quotes #Recognition Quotes

“Calling something exotic emphasizes its distance from the reader. We don't refer to things as exotic if we think of them as ordinary. We call something exotic if it's so different that we see no way to emulate it or understand how it came to be. We call someone exotic if we aren't especially interested in viewing them as people - just as objects representing their culture.”
“We have to distrust each other. It is our only defense against betrayal.”
“You cannot know where your people are going if you don't know where your people have been.”
“What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do is stand around and wait for them to come true?”

Source : "In pictures: cutting edge climate science, communication, and kittens from the 2013 AGU conference" by Dana Nuccitelli, www.theguardian.com. December 17, 2013.
“Phil has always been a fighter. He was getting in fights all the time. I told him that if he ever hit me then I would leave the band. He wanted to find out if I was telling him the truth. He hit me so I left and that is how UFO split up.”
“There would be no chance at all of getting to know death if it happened only once. But fortunately, life is nothing but a continuing dance of birth and death, a dance of change. Every time I hear the rush of a mountain stream, or the waves crashing on the shore, or my own heartbeat, I hear the sound of impermanence. These changes, these small deaths, are our living links with death. They are death's pulses, death's heartbeat, prompting us to let go of all the things we cling to.”
“It is easy to acknowledge, but almost impossible to realize for long, that we are mirrors whose brightness, if we are bright, is wholly derived from the sun that shines upon us.”
“Creation is everything you do. Make something.”

Source : Ntozake Shange (2010). “Sassafrass, Cypress & Indigo: A Novel”, p.58, Macmillan

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