"Truth is fire, and to speak the truth means to shine and to burn"

“We love music for the buried hopes, the garnered memories, the tender feelings it can summon at a touch.”

“Children want one thing at a time, and want that one thing passionately.”

“Human evolution has two steps - from being somebody to being nobody; and from being nobody to being everybody. This knowledge can bring sharing and caring throughout the world.”

“I'm Dan Gelber. As a federal prosecutor, I helped put away corporate criminals, corrupt politicians and violent gangs.”

“Believe you can do it. Believing something can be done puts your mind to work for you and helps you find ways to do it.”

Source : George Shinn (2014). “The Miracle of Motivation: The Guide to Becoming Everything You Want to Be”, p.111, BookBaby

“It is so much easier to rest contented with what we have already acquired than to change ever so slightly those routine but profound habits of thought and feeling which govern our life, and by which we live so blissfully. This mental inertia is, perhaps, our greatest enemy. Insidiously it leads us to assume that we can renew our lives without renewing our habits.”

“Poetry is the memory of language”

“As you know, this little grain of sand has mass. A very small mass, but mass nonetheless." And because this grain of sand has mass, it therefore exerts gravity. Again, too small to feel, but there." Now," Katherine said, "if we take trilions of these sand grains and let them attract one another to form... say, the moon, then their combined gravtiy is enough to move entire ocreans and drag the tides back and forth across our planet.”