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“There is nothing personal in the thunderclap of understanding. The lightning that releases it comes from outside oneself.”
Source : Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin, Katherine Haramundanis (1996). “Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin: An Autobiography and Other Recollections”, p.85, Cambridge University Press
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“The impossible missions are the only ones which succeed.”
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“Virtual reality is a self-created form of chosen reality. Therefore it exists.”
Source : Joan Lowery Nixon (2013). “Don't Scream”, p.91, Delacorte Books for Young Readers
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“I expect them to tell me things about myself I don't know...”
Source : Bohumil Hrabal (1992). “Too Loud a Solitude”, p.8, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Sometimes I spend all day in my dressing gown. But if I do dress, I make myself ravishing because then, I feel ravishing.”
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“Run when you can, walk if you have to, crawl if you must; just never give up.”
Source : Dean Karnazes (2006). “Ultramarathon Man: Confessions of an All-Night Runner”, p.197, Penguin
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“Even in the winter, in the midst of the storm, the sun is still there. Somewhere above the clouds, it still shines and warms and pulls at the life buried deep inside the brown branches and frozen earth.”
Source : Gloria Gaither (1980). “Because He Lives”
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“Don't limit a child to your own learning, for he was born in another time.”
