"We run after values that, at death, become zero. At the end of your life, nobody asks you how many degrees you have, or how many mansions you built, or how many Rolls Royces you could afford. That's what dying patients teach you."

-- Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

#Death Quotes #Running Quotes #Zero Quotes

“What appear to us to be causal explanations are in fact just storiesâ€”descriptions of what happened that tell us little, if anything, about the mechanisms at work.”

Source : Duncan J. Watts (2011). “Everything Is Obvious: *Once You Know the Answer”, p.27, Crown Business
“When I stand up to talk, people listen to me; they will follow what I have to say. Is it any power of mine? Of course not. St. Paul says, 'What have you that you have not received and you who have received, why do you glory as if you had not?' But the secret of my power is that I have never in fifty-five years missed spending an hour in the presence of our Lord in the Blessed Sacrament. That's where the power comes from. That's where sermons are born. That's where every good thought is conceived.”
“Loosening control of your life into Gods hands brings an overwhelming sense of peace and confidence.”

Source : "A conversation with Carolina Hurricanes goalie Dan Ellis". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com. March 2013.
“My parents weren't artistic, but I was always surrounded by beautiful things. And Mexico is a country which has experienced thousands of years of art and culture.”
“A few birds flew out from the mountains and glided for a while without sound. Standing out against the sky on high slopes beyond a range of low hills, they saw an endless herd of deer, rendered mute by distance. The landscape was reminiscent of a cardboard cutout, but on a huge scale, which gave the impression they were the ones who had become miniatures...All three of them were equally lost.”

Source : César Aira (2013). “The Hare”, p.239, New Directions Publishing
“The painter goes through states of fullness and evaluation. That is the whole secret of art.”
“Pop art is the inedible raised to the unspeakable.”

Source : 1965 In Publisher's Weekly, 5 Apr. See Wilde 909:22.
“I've got a great ambition to die of exhaustion rather than boredom.”

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