"Do we indulge our heart, or cater to our fear?"

-- Peter McWilliams

#Fear Quotes #Heart Quotes #Indulge Quotes

“For what is important when we give children a theorem to use is not that they should memorize it. What matters most is that by growing up with a few very powerful theorems one comes to appreciate how certain ideas can be used as tools to think with over a lifetime. One learns to enjoy and to respect the power of powerful ideas. One learns that the most powerful idea of all is the idea of powerful ideas.”
“To want to understand is an attempt to recapture something we have lost.”

Source : Peter Høeg (2010). “Smilla's Sense of Snow: A Novel”, p.40, Macmillan
“Within thy Grave! Oh no, but on some other flight - Thou only camest to mankind To rend it with Good night”
“If anyone would like to acquire humility, I can, I think, tell him the first step. The first step is to realize that one is proud. And a biggish step, too. At least, nothing whatever can be done before it. If you think you are not conceited, it means that you are very conceited indeed.”
“All I know about getting something that you want is that there are three essential things: wanting, trying and getting the opportunity, the breaks. None works alone without the others. Wanting is basic. Trying is up to you. And the breaks - I do know this, they always happen.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“God is love? Not bloody likely.”
“I think I have been very lucky as far as my acting career goes.”
“My dream is to have a beautiful old house in Monaco.”

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