"We love comfort, and people make a lot of money selling us comfort, but I would challenge the notion that comfort is usually good for us."

-- Daniel Lieberman

#Pain Quotes #People Quotes #Challenges Quotes

“If you have butterflies in your stomach ask them into your heart.”

Source : Cooper Edens (2007). “If You're Afraid of the Dark, Remember the Night Rainbow/Add One More Star to the Night”, p.53, Chronicle Books
“Our enemies didn't adhere to the Geneva Convention. Many of my comrades were subjected to very cruel, very inhumane and degrading treatment, a few of them even unto death. But every one of us - every single one of us - knew and took great strength from the belief that we were different from our enemies, that we were better than them, that we, if the roles were reversed, would not disgrace ourselves by committing or countenancing such mistreatment of them.”
“The Theory of Relativity confers an absolute meaning on a magnitude which in classical theory has only a relative significance: the velocity of light. The velocity of light is to the Theory of Relativity as the elementary quantum of action is to the Quantum Theory: it is its absolute core.”
“There is a voice that doesnâ€™t use words. Listen.”
“My main objective is to prepare candidates for professional baseball; however, the majority of our graduates will go home as much better qualified amateurs.”
“I was small but slow as a college tackle.”
“This world is not for the poor, nor the next for the unkind.”
“The flowers never waste their sweetness on the desert air or, for that matter, on the jungle air. In fact, they waste it only when nobody except a human being is there to smell it. It is for the bugs and a few birds, not for men, that they dye their petals or waft their scents.”

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