"The history of architecture is the history of the struggle for light."

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Le Corbusier

#Struggle Quotes #Light Quotes #Architecture Quotes

“I think while zealots fast and frown, And fight for two or seven, That there are fifty roads to town, And rather more to Heaven.”

Source : Winthrop Mackworth Praed (1854). “The Poetical Works of Winthrop Mackworth Praed”, p.266
“It was a maddening image and the only way to whip it was to hang on until dusk and banish the ghosts with rum.”
“Wisdom is not mathematical, nor astronomical, nor zoological; when it talks too much of any one thing it ceases to be itself. There are wise physicists, but wisdom is not physical; there are wise physicians, but wisdom is not medical.”

Source : George Sarton (1964). “A History of Science: Ancient Science Through the Golden Age of Greece”
“Sad hours and glad hours, and all hours, pass over; One thing unshaken stays: Life, that hath Death for spouse, hath Chance for lover; Whereby decays Each thing save one thing: - mid this strife diurnal Of hourly change begot, Love that is God-born, bides as God eternal, And changes not; - Nor means a tinseled dream pursuing lovers Find altered by-and-bye, When, with possession, time anon discovers Trapped dreams must die, - For he that visions God, of mankind gathers One manlike trait alone, And reverently imputes to Him a father's Love for his son.”
“We are all one, we are love at our core, we are magnificent”
“I think I spent all my life in gymnastics. And if you will ask me I want to change something in your past life, no. I will go same.”
“And I have to consider myself fortunate, because there are plenty of writers who spend most of a lifetime looking for that certain something without ever finding it.”

Source : "Necroscope: Looking Back". www.brianlumley.com.
“Divorce isn't such a tragedy. A tragedy's staying in an unhappy marriage, teaching your children the wrong things about love. Nobody ever died of divorce.”

Source : Jennifer Weiner (2010). “Fly Away Home”, p.362, Simon and Schuster

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