"Don't ever underestimate the capacity of a human being who is determined to do something."

-- Edna Adan Ismail

#Motivation Quotes #Determined Quotes #Underestimate Quotes

“Obviously, if theism is a belief in a God and atheism is a lack of a belief in a God, no third position or middle ground is possible. A person can either believe or not believe in a God. Therefore, our previous definition of atheism has made an impossibility out of the common usage of agnosticism to mean "neither affirming nor denying a belief in God."”

Source : Gordon Stein (1980). “An Anthology of Atheism and Rationalism”
“Every gulp of air that goes out in a cause other than the cause of Allah will turn to sorrow and regret on the Day of Judgement.”
“We're not good at thinking fast. We are good at feeling fast.”
“.. the guitar is just a wonderful instrument. It's everything: a bartender, a psychiatrist, a housewife. It's everything, but it's elusive”
“A falcon hovers at the edge of the sky.Two gulls drift slowly up the river.Vulnerable while they ride the wind,they coast and glide with ease.Dew is heavy on the grass below,the spider's web is ready.Heaven's ways include the human:among a thousand sorrows, I stand alone.”

Source : Du Fu, “I Stand Alone”
“The use of travelling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.”
“I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.”

Source : Isabelle Eberhardt (2003). “The Nomad: The Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt”, Interlink Publishing Group Incorporated
“Believe it or not, philosophy has consequences.”

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