"See not perfection in self. Seek it not in others. One being a false perceptionThe other, an endless quest."

-- Mary Summer Rain

#Self Quotes #Perfection Quotes #Quests Quotes

“Human beings should only use technology which if the worst case happens, it leads to an acceptable damage. Definitely nuclear energy is not in that category. I want an industrial world where people are allowed to make errors. Because human creativity has to do with being allowed to make errors. We want an error-friendly environment.”
“If you're born once, you die twice; but if you're born twice, you die once.”
“The Chinese government since 1979 has been very successful in economic development, and successful enough, simply by surviving, in the realm of political development.”
“He wished someone in the course of history had thought of striking that word and all its derivatives from the English Language - happy, happier, happiest, happiness. What the devil did the words really mean anyway? Why not just the word pleasure, which was far more... well, pleasant.”
“The blue of my eyes is extinguished in this night, the red gold of my heart.”
“Drugs are in every walk of life - doctors, lawyers, preachers, the guy who works for IBM, teenagers on the street, teenagers in school.”
“Take your duty, and be strong in it, as God will make you strong. The harder it is, the stronger in fact you will be. Understand, also, that the great question here is, not what you will get, but what you will become. The greatest wealth you can ever get will be in yourself. Take your burdens and troubles and losses and wrongs, if come they must and will, as your opportunity, knowing that God has girded you for greater things than these.”

Source : Horace Bushnell (1876). “Sermons for the New Life”, p.28
“When you open a book it's like going to the theater first you see the curtain then it is pulled aside and the show begins.”

Source : Cornelia Funke (2011). “Inkheart”, p.60, Scholastic Inc.

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