"It was only a smile, nothing more. It didn't make everything all right. It didn't make ANYTHING all right. Only a smile. A tiny thing. A leaf in the woods, shaking in the wake of a startled bird's flight. But I'll take it. With open arms. Because when spring comes, it melts the snow one flake at a time, and maybe I just witnessed the first flake melting. - Amir"

-- Khaled Hosseini

#Spring Quotes #Snow Quotes #Bird Quotes

“That's why successful people in every field are almost universally members of a certain set - the set of people who don't give up.”

Source : Leonard Mlodinow (2008). “The Drunkard's Walk: How Randomness Rules Our Lives”, p.14, Vintage
“As a dancer, obviously, we are all inspired by Michael Jackson, and I always looked up to Gene Kelly. He was a bigger version of Fred Astaire, and he was amazing as well.”
“The people I love the best, jump into work head first without dallying in the shallows.”

Source : Marge Piercy (2013). “Circles on the Water”, p.106, Knopf
“The ideal in chess can only be a collective image, but in my opinion it is Capablanca who most closely approaches this ...”
“I work grief and sadness out of my body when I dance, and I bring in joy and rhythm.”
“You can go back and try to generalize, but then you end up saying things that all editors say about everything that ever gets published. Something about voice, about urgency, about actually having a story to tell.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“She hath no loyal knight and true, The Lady of Shalott.”
“If you don't understand how something works, never mind: just give up and say God did it. You don't know how the nerve impulse works? Good! You don't understand how memories are laid down in the brain? Excellent! Is photosynthesis a bafflingly complex process? Wonderful! Please don't go to work on the problem, just give up, and appeal to God.”

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