"When we are chafed and fretted by small cares, a look at the stars will show us the littleness of our own interests."

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Source : Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

Maria Mitchell

#Stars Quotes #Caring Quotes #Looks Quotes

“I still cannot fathom how difficult it was for the women I met to find out that they were HIV-positive. It is such a courageous undertaking in countries where there is still considerable stigma about the disease. They got tested to ensure that their unborn babies would have a chance of life by being born free of the virus.”
“As long as I breathe, I attack.”

Source : "P Is For Peloton: The A-Z Of Cycling" by Suze Clemitson, www.theguardian.com. November 5, 2015.
“I have written too much about lives - I feel I have lived for too long.”
“Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.”

Source : Sir Richard Francis Burton (1894). “The Kasîdah (couplets) of Hâjî Abdû Al-Yazdi: A Lay of the Higher Law”
“If we learn to understand each other, we will have a better understanding of ourselves.”
“Women are not supposed to have uteruses, especially in poems.”
“The bigger the dream, the greater the opportunity”
“The science of yoga saved my life, and I've seen it save many other lives, no matter how dark and hopeless it might feel for someone, there is a pathway forward towards stability and empowerment ... toward creating a new and more meaningful identity and mission in life.”

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