"And one cold starry night / Whatever your belief / The phoenix will take flight / Over the seas of grief / To sing her thrilling song / To stars and waves and sky / For neither old nor young / The phoenix does not die."

-- May Sarton

#Song Quotes #Stars Quotes #Grief Quotes

“Popular atheism is not a philosophy but a therapy,”
“The only way to love a person is...by listening to them and seeing and believing in the god, in the poet, in them. For by doing this, you keep the god and the poet alive and make it flourish.”
“They [China] have indicated that theyâ€™re trying to develop nuclear capability and they want to develop more aircraft carriers like we have. So yes, we have to consider them a military threat.”
“I learned what research was all about as a research student [with] Stoppani ... Max Perutz, and ... Fred Sanger... From them, I always received an unspoken message which in my imagination I translated as "Do good experiments, and don't worry about the rest."”
“The more attention that is drawn to any of the fighters, especially in a positive way, is good for the sport.”
“You can bet the rent money that whatever politicians do will end up harming consumers. ... Economic ignorance is to politicians what idle hands are to the devil. Both provide the workshop for the creation of evil.”
“Being alone when one's belief is firm, is not to be alone.”

Source : Berthold Auerbach (1874). “On the heights: a novel”, p.412
“Only through the inner channels can a person even hope to approach the ancient wisdoms. The outer works are thus simply a doorway to the hidden, spiritual things of life.”

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