"Life gives to all the choice. You can satisfy yourself with mediocrity if you wish. You can be common, ordinary, dull, colorless, or yyou can channel your life so that it will be clean, vibrant, useful, progressive, colorful, and rich."

--

Spencer W. Kimball

#Giving Quotes #Choices Quotes #Wish Quotes

“Reaching for the stars, perfectionists may end up clutching air. They suffer from mood disorders, troubled relationships, and stress. They may even achieve less than others.”
“I have a dream that Africa should have one bloc - north to south - we could trade freely, people can move freely and that makes business sense.”
“When you do a film, you get picked up in a car, lunch is free. Theatre is really hard, and you get absolutely no money.”
“No one who traces the history of motherhood, of the home, of child-rearing practices will ever assume the eternal permanence of our own way of institutionalizing them.”

Source : Jessie Bernard (1975). “The future of motherhood”, Penguin (Non-Classics)
“By contrast with history, evolution is an unconscious process. Another, and perhaps a better way of putting it would be to say that evolution is a natural process, history a human one.... Insofar as we treat man as a part of nature--for instance in a biological survey of evolution--we are precisely not treating him as a historical being. As a historically developing being, he is set over against nature, both as a knower and as a doer.”
“I was absolutely floored as a lot of people are but also I was reunited with ideas that I actually had as a teenager and these are ideas that I had put away as I approached college years because they were ridiculous on the face of it and when you talk to someone about living forever, they just dismiss you out of hand.”

Source : "Barry Ptolemy Gets Personal". Big Think Interview, bigthink.com. April 27, 2009.
“The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.”

Source : Italo Calvino (2017). “The Uses of Literature”, p.347, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“My dad was a geologist and my mum was a nurse who directed amateur theatrics.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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