"The wind, one brilliant day, called to my soul with an odor of jasmine. "In return for the odor of my jasmine, I'd like all the odor of your roses." "I have no roses; all the flowers in my garden are dead." "Well then, I'll take the withered petals and the yellow leaves and the waters of the fountain." the wind left. And I wept. And I said to myself: "What have you done with the garden that was entrusted to you?"

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Source : Antonio Machado, “The Wind, One BrILLIant Day”

Antonio Machado

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“The centermost processes of the brain with which consciousness is presumably associated are simply not understood. They are so far beyond our comprehension that no one I know of has been able to imagine their nature.”

Source : "Genius Talk: Conversations With Nobel Scientists and Other Luminaries". Book by Denis Brian, 1995.
“To have read the greatest works of any great poet, to have beheld or heard the greatest works of any great painter or musician, is a possession added to the best things of life.”
“When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.”
“If you're beautiful, you're led to believe that you can't also be smart. But you can be fun and fit and social and be really smart. And the smarter you are, the more capable you'll be to handle whatever challenges come up in life.”

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“What I am, what I have, what I am going to leave behind me - all this I owe to the game of baseball.”
“You never find yourself until you face the truth.”

Source : Pearl Bailey (1969). “The raw Pearl”, Pocket
“Truth should never travel faster than love.”

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