"In life it is more necessary to lose than to gain. A seed will only germinate if it dies."

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Source : Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

Boris Pasternak

#Loss Quotes #Gains Quotes

“You don't have to just hit nails with hammers, you know; you can use a hammer to beat somebody's brains in, to make armor or break a car window. You can do all kinds of things with your instrument outside of its surface purpose. My bass is my crutch but the best crutch I could have.”
“Speciesism: A failure, in attitude or practice, to accord any nonhuman being equal consideration and respect”

Source : Joan Dunayer (2004). “Speciesism”, Ryce Pub
“One influential philosophical position about the use of probability in science holds that probabilities are objective only if they are based on micro-physics; all other probabilities should be interpreted subjectively, as merely revealing our ignorance about physical details. I have argued against this position, contending that the objectivity of micro-physical probabilities entails the objectivity of macro-probabilities.”
“I never did drugs and I can't really drink because I have zero tolerance for alcohol, so my vice became women. I was never faithful to most of them”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“You have to look for the joy. Look for the light of God that is hitting your life, and you will find sparkles you didn't know were there.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (2004). “Stick a Geranium in Your Hat and Be Happy”, p.78, Thomas Nelson Inc
“Kartik places a sovereign in the lady's cup, and I know that it's likely all he has. "Why did you do that?" I ask. He kicks a rock on the ground, balancing it nimbly between his feet like a ball. "She needed it." Father says it isn't good to give money to beggers. They'll only spend it unwisely on drink or other pleasures. "She might buy ale with it." He shrugs. "Then she'll have ale. It isn't the pound that matters; it's the hope...I know what it's like to fight for things that others take for granted.”
“If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.”

Source : Song: Try Again, Album: I Care 4 U
“As Christians, though there may be reasons to be troubled, there are greater reasons not to be.”

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