"I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are."

-- Martin Rees

#Religious Quotes #Wish Quotes #Insult Quotes

“We stand in the shadow of Jefferson who believed that a society founded upon the rule of law and liberty was dependent upon public education and the diffusion of knowledge.”
“If you are going to be successful, you have to start hanging out with the successful people. You need to ask them to share their success strategies with you. Then try them on and see if they fit for you. Experiment with doing what they do, reading what they read, thinking the way they think, and so on. If the new ways of thinking and behaving work, adopt them. If not, drop them, and keep looking and experimenting.”
“The challenge is to find our destiny in exactly what we are refusing to engage in.”
“I'm not getting it all sorted, she worried. I'm not getting it right. You are brilliant, the Voice reassured her. It is imperfect. So are all things trapped in time. You are brilliant, nonetheless. How fortunate for Us that We thirst for glorious souls rather than faultless ones, or We should be parched indeed, and most lonely in Our perfect righteousness. Carry on imperfectly, shining Ista.”
“Revolt by all means, but only on one issue at a time. To do more would be to confuse the whips.”
“The Gardener does not create the Garden. The Garden creates the Gardener.”
“You can only chase a butterfly for so long.”
“The naturalness of life... the sense of community is, I think, a very important factor in an artist's life.”

Source : Dame Barbara Hepworth (1970). “A Pictorial Autobiography”

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