"Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it."

-- Victor Hugo

#Sorrow Quotes #Fruit Quotes #Bears Quotes

“Let us accept the invitation, ever-open, from the Stillness, taste its exquisite sweetness, and heed its silent instruction.”
“I believe God rules all by his divine providence and that the stars by his permission are instruments.”
“Mitt der Dummheit k aÂ« mpfen G oÂ« tter selbst vergebens. Even the gods themselves struggle in vain against stupidity.”
“Songwriters canâ€™t explain. You get an idea and you donâ€™t know where itâ€™s come from. And if youâ€™re lucky, you have a pencil or pen and can write it down.”
“You have to have a multipronged approach and a significant part of that is educating the public and change the culture so that people are less afraid of Arabs or Muslims, more attuned to civil rights and civil liberties issues that are presented, more aware of the security costs of some of the kinds of choices the Bush administration had made, and more committed to the values that America was founded upon.”
“Many problems that challenge us today can be traced back to a profound tension between what is good and desirable for society as a whole and what is good and desirable for an individual. That conflict can be found in global problems such as climate change, pollution, resource depletion, poverty, hunger, and overpopulation.”

Source : Martin Nowak, Roger Highfield (2012). “SuperCooperators: Altruism, Evolution, and Why We Need Each Other to Succeed”, p.20, Simon and Schuster
“I'd like to know that your love Is love I can be sure of...”
“By any sane definition of success, if you wake up in a pool of blood and nobody has shot you, you are not successful.”

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