"Be contented, when you have got all you want."

-- Holbrook Jackson

“It would be better for the true physics if there were no mathematicians on earth.”
“Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name.”
“There was a loneliness because kids my age had video games, tennis. They traveled. They had beautiful clothes. I was wearing my sisters' old clothes that were adjusted on me, because we didn't have money to buy clothes. So that really made me go deep inside on my heart, because the only things I could have with me were my heart and my brain.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“My purpose is to acknowledge the wonder of being part of Creation. Though I myself don't create anything, I make from what has been created.”
“We all have a choice. We all have a say. We are spectators in life or we get in and play. Whichever we choose, how we handle lifes game, the choices are ours no one else is to blame.”

Source : Tom Krause, “Choices”
“The youth of an art is, like the youth of anything else, its most interesting period.”
“When Goethe says that in every human condition foes lie in wait for us, "invincible only by cheerfulness and equanimity," he does not mean that we can at all times be really cheerful, or at a moment's notice; but that the endeavor to look at the better side of things will produce the habit, and that this habit is the surest safeguard against the danger of sudden is evils.”

Source : Leigh Hunt (1851). “Table-talk: To which are added Imaginary conversations of Pope and Swift”, p.37, Smith, Elder
“Our bodies are temples of the Lord. We should earn respect and admiration for our hearts, not for showing skin to look sexy.”

Source : Carrie Prejean (2009). “Still Standing: The Untold Story of My Fight Against Gossip, Hate, and Political Attacks”, p.177, Regnery Publishing

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