"Most striking at first is the appearance of sudden illumination, a manifest sign of long unconscious prior work."

-- Henri Poincare

#Illumination Quotes #Long Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There are times when the actual experience of leaving something makes you wish desperately that you could stay, and then there are times when the leaving reminds you a hundred times over why exactly you had to leave in the first place.”
“War is the greatest plague that can afflict mankind... Any scourge is preferable to it.”
“Each of us must do massive right thinking, take massive right action and get massive right results, right here, right now.”
“I do not discriminate about size. I design dresses to accentuate a woman's positives, whether you are a size 0 or a size 3X.”
“The Masonic system represents a stupendous and beautiful fabric, founded on universal purity, to rule and direct our passions, to have faith and love in God, and charity toward man.”
“According to Madam Pomfrey, thoughts could leave deeper scars than almost anything else.”
“Sweet is the infant's waking smile, And sweet the old man's rest-- But middle age by no fond wile, No soothing calm is blest.”

Source : John Keble (1850). “The Christian year ... By John Keble. Thirty-seventh edition”, p.173
“Change may be the vitalizing wind blowing through the house of life, but it is not an abiding force. We need permanent things to soak peace into us as well as progress - the beauty of the earth, seedtime and harvest, the smiles of lovers, the joy of the young in being alive, pride in craftsmanship. Why, oh why must we let ourselves forget these lasting treasures in an age of consuming ambition, speed madness and accumulated goods that leave us no chance to live? If we cannot be contented with a little no wealth will ever satisfy us.”

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