"You can tell other people all the alibis you want. I don't mind. But to yourself try to be honest."

-- Richard Hamming

#People Quotes #Mind Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Harry looked down and saw deep green mountains and lakes, coppery in the sunset.”
“And if I end up with blood on my hands, well I know, that you'll understand, 'cause I fight like a girl.”
“A community of Jesus which seeks to hide itself has ceased to follow him.”
“I don't suppose anybody ever deliberately listens to a watch or a clock. You don't have to. You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear.”
“Talk was like the vitamins of our friendship: Large daily doses kept it healthy.”

Source : E.L. Konigsburg (2011). “Silent to the Bone”, p.12, Simon and Schuster
“Is not man himself the most unsettled of all the creatures of the earth? What is this trembling sensation that is intensified with each ascending step in the natural order?”
“One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.”

Source : Jose Rizal (2006). “Noli Me Tangere (Touch Me Not)”, p.17, Penguin
“No decisions should ever be made without asking the question, is this for the common good?”

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