"But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain."

-- Theodor Adorno

#Life Quotes #Despair Quotes #Vain Quotes

“Lemurs are extraordinarily leapers. I mean they are just really going from tree to tree and then if there is not a tree, they just come down to the ground very gracefully. But it is the music that makes them seem to be dancing. They are basically getting from one place to another and that's just natural for them. They are just natural acrobatic dancers, just the way they move. It's beautiful!”
“Fragrance is the first layer of dressing, a woman's invisible body suit.”
“Comparison with something that is better is the thief of joy. Comparison with something that is worse is a joy - full of relief and gratitude! You cannot always choose what happens to you or your circumstances but you can always choose your attitude by what you choose to compare your experiences or circumstances to and therefore how you will feel!! We can make any experience either a heaven or a hell by what we compare it to. Our emotions are 'an inside job!'”
“To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of potentiality (which is always potentiality to do and not to do) â€” this is the perpetual illusion of morality.”
“As Bertrand Russell once wrote, two plus two is four even in the interior of the sun.”

Source : Martin Gardner (2009). “When You Were a Tadpole and I Was a Fish: And Other Speculations About This and That”, p.124, Macmillan
“Dance with me, Death, I am ready.”
“I swing between procrastination and being really thorough so either way things aren't getting done quickly.”
“The business of art is to enlarge and correct the heart and to lift our ideals out of the ugly and the mean through love of the ideal...The business of art is to appeal to the soul.”

Source : The New York Times, December 10, 1916.

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