"Gardening is an instrument of grace."

-- May Sarton

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“Make no mistake about it. The first man who will walk on the moon has already been born. I hope in America.”
“Should I be grateful or should I curse the fact that despite all misfortune I can still feel love, an unearthly love but still for earthly objects.”
“Failure is Central to engineering. Every single calculation that an engineer makes is a failure calculation.”
“I love the box that such a decision puts you in, and I love the interest the reader has in seeing how you negotiate that box: that seemingly hugely narrowed set of options. I also like the way in which it reminds us that we connect to the real world. That our relationship to the world matters.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Being humble and sweet is the hardest thing you can do.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“And If the surgeon is like a poet, then the scars you have made on countless bodies are like verses into the fashioning of which you have poured your soul.”

Source : Richard Selzer (1996). “Mortal Lessons: Notes on the Art of Surgery”, p.94, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“If the art of poetry is?the art of making sense of the chaos of human experience, it's not a bad thing to see a lot of chaos.”
“The problem and privilege we all have is being alive in this century and able to read this language. It makes any list meaningless except the list of an illiterate.”

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