"We often cause ourselves suffering by wanting only to live in a world of valleys, a world without struggle and difficulty, a world that is flat, plain, consistent."

-- Bell Hooks

#Struggle Quotes #Suffering Quotes #Valleys Quotes

“When it comes to parenthood everyone thinks they will be terrible at it. We don't think we have it in us. Then you find out that you do, which truly is a miracle in life.”
“All you need is trust and a little bit of pixie dust!”
“A country cannot subsist well without liberty, nor liberty without virtue.”
“Count my own money, see the paper cut fingers?”
“Love fills everything. It cannot be desired because it is an end in itself. It cannot betray because it has nothing to do with possession. It cannot be held prisoner because it is a river and will overflow its banks. Anyone who tries to imprison love will cut off the spring that feeds it, and the trapped water will grow stagnant.”
“Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.”
“Few years ago I did 30m in 3.7 seconds. Whether that makes me quicker than [Usain] Bolt, I don't know! We all know Usain is the best.”
“Mathematics without natural history is sterile, but natural history without mathematics is muddled.”

Source : John Maynard Smith (1988). “Games, sex and evolution”, Prentice Hall

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