"...learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.."

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Source : Edwin A. Abbott, Thomas Banchoff, Seth Caplan, Jeffrey Travis, Dano Johnson (2009). “Flatland: The Movie Edition”, p.80, Princeton University Press

Edwin A. Abbott

#Self Quotes #Ignorant Quotes #Lessons Quotes

“Idealism is the highest form of reason.”
“My mom's a Catholic, and my dad's a Jew, and they didn't want anything to do with anything.”
“To enlarge or illustrate this power and effect of love is to set a candle in the sun.”

Source : The Anatomy of Melancholy pt. 3, sec. 2 (1621 - 1651)
“I. Don't trace out your profile-- forget your side view-- all that is outer stuff. II. Look for your other half who walks always next to you and tends to be who you aren't.”
“I design some of my own clothes now.”

Source : Biography/Person Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Motherhood: if it were going to be easy, it never would have started with something called labor.”

Source : Barbara Johnson (2000). “Boomerang Joy: Joy That Goes Around, Comes Around”, p.175, Zondervan
“In the studio, I don't do a lot of work that requires repetitive activity. I spend a lot of time looking and thinking and then try to find the most efficient way to get what I want, whether it's making a drawing or a sculpture, or casting plaster or whatever.”

Source : "'Setting a Good Corner'". Art21 Interview, art21.org. September 2001.
“In our beginnings lies our journey's end.”

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