"We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith, hope, and joy."

-- Dean Koontz

#Love Quotes #Kindness Quotes #Generosity Quotes

“Much work is merely a way to make money; much leisure is merely a way to spend it.”
“True peace is not merely the absence of tension: it is the presence of justice.”
“Since the natural tendencies of mankind are so bad that it is not safe to allow them liberty, how comes it to pass that the tendencies of organizers are always good?”
“The better the artist, the more vulnerable he seems to be.”

Source : Al Alvarez (2013). “The Savage God: A Study of Suicide”, p.259, Bloomsbury Publishing
“Fuzzy Tally is no more.”
“When the world is mad, a mathematician may find in mathematics an incomparable anodyne. For mathematics is, of all the arts and sciences, the most austere and the most remote, and a mathematician should be of all men the one who can most easily take refuge where, as Bertrand Russell says, "one at least of our nobler impulses can best escape from the dreary exile of the actual world."”

Source : G. H. Hardy (2012). “A Mathematician's Apology”, p.143, Cambridge University Press
“Democracy cannot survive overpopulation.”
“The goal you set must be challenging. At the same time, it should be realistic and attainable, not impossible to reach. It should be challenging enough to make you stretch, but not so far that you break.”

Source : Rick Hansen, Joan Laub (1994). “Going the distance: 7 steps to personal change”

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