"We come unbidden into this life, and if we are lucky we find a purpose beyond starvation, misery, and early death which, lest we forget, is the common lot."

-- Abraham Verghese

#Lucky Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Common Quotes

“Gay-Lussac was quick, lively, ingenious and profound, with great activity of mind and great facility of manipulation. I should place him at the head of all the living chemists in France.”

Source : Humphry Davy (1839). “The Collected Works: Memoirs of the life of Sir Humphry Davy”, p.167
“The fault seems to me to have been that men have taken ancient country churches as their models and have failed to discover that between them and churches in towns there ought to be a most distinct and marked difference.”
“Those proud of keeping an orderly desk never know the thrill of finding something that they thought irretrievably lost.”
“I feel all things as dynamic events, being, changing, and interacting with each other in space and time even as I photograph them.”

Source : Wynn Bullock, Barbara Bullock-Wilson (1984). “Wynn Bullock, photographing the nude: the beginnings of a quest for meaning”, Gibbs Smith
“He who cannot overcome his own demons could never defeat another”
“Blood may be thicker than water, but it is still sticky, unpleasant and generally nauseating.”
“The masculine grows by challenge, but the feminine grows by praise. A man must be unabashed and expressed in his appreciation for his woman. Praise her freely.”
“I remember I was so crabby in my third trimester - I got gestational diabetes because I'd been acting like I was in a one-woman pie-eating contest.”

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