"You cannot be happy with your family while being personally unhappy with your work. It's a Catch-22 kind of thing."

-- Mikhail Baryshnikov

#Being Happy Quotes #Unhappy Quotes #Kind Quotes

“There are no road signs to help navigate. And, in fact, no one has yet determined which side of the road we're supposed to be on.”
“Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.”
“Greek architecture taught me that the column is where the light is not, and the space between is where the light is. It is a matter of no-light, light, no-light, light. A column and a column brings light between them. To make a column which grows out of the wall and which makes its own rhythm of no-light, light, no-light, light: that is the marvel of the artist.”
“What most people do is try to find a comfortable persona that they're in alignment with and the public likes and appreciates them for.”
“When we seek happiness through accumulation, either outside of ourselves-from other people, relationships, or material goods-or from our own self-development, we are missing the essential point. In either case we are trying to find completion. But according to Buddhism, such a strategy is doomed. Completion comes not from adding another piece to ourselves but from surrendering our ideas of perfection.”
“The popular and scientific views of "race" no longer coincide. The word "race," as applied scientifically to human groupings, has lost any sharpness of meaning. To-day it is hardly definable in scientific terms, except as an abstract concept which may, under certain conditions, very different from those now prevalent, have been realized approximately in the past and might, under certain other but equally different conditions, be realized in the distant future.”
“Our imagination is struck only by what is great; but the lover of natural philosophy should reflect equally on little things.”

Source : Alexander von HUMBOLDT (1869). “Personal narrative of travels to the equinoctial regions of America”, p.288
“Every day I'm thinking about change.”

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