"Let man then contemplate the whole of nature in her full and grand majesty... No idea approaches it. We may enlarge our conceptions beyond all imaginable space; we only produce atoms in comparison with the reality of things. It is an infinite sphere, the center of which is everywhere, the circumference nowhere."

-- Blaise Pascal

#Nature Quotes #Men Quotes #Reality Quotes

“I have been missing the point. The point is not knowing another person, or learning to love another person. The point is simply this: how tender can we bear to be? What good manners can we show as we welcome ourselves and others into our hearts?”

Source : The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood ch. 31 (1996)
“Very often the things we most desire come only after much patience and struggle.”

Source : Richelle Mead (2010). “Succubus Blues”, p.504, Zebra Books
“I didn't relate well to people my age. Maybe the truth was that I didn't relate well to people, period. Even my mother, who I was closer to than anyone else on the planet, was never in harmony with me, never on exactly the same page. Sometimes I wondered if I was seeing the same things through my eyes that the rest of the world was seeing through theirs. Maybe there was a glitch in my brain.”
“It is not my questions that embarrass South Africa â€“ it is your answers.”

Source : "Helen Suzman, Relentless Challenger of Apartheid System, Is Dead at 91" by John F. Burns, Alan Cowell, www.nytimes.com. January 1, 2009.
“Baseball means Spring's Here. Football means Winter's Coming.”

Source : Thomas Boswell (1989). “The heart of the order”, Doubleday Books
“The possibilities were endless. Battles would be fought. Wonders revealed. Many journeys. Many lands. Many joys. Many sorrows. But stories all...”

Source : William Joyce, Laura Geringer (2011). “Nicholas St. North and the Battle of the Nightmare King”, p.238, Simon and Schuster
“She had to live in this bright, red gabled house with the nurse until it was time for her to die... I thought how little we know about the feelings of old people. Children we understand, their fears and hopes and make-believe.”
“The word was born in the blood, grew in the dark body, beating, and took flight through the lips and the mouth. Farther away and nearer still, still it came from dead fathers and from wondering races, from lands which had turned to stone, lands weary of their poor tribes, for when grief took to the roads the people set out and arrived and married new land and water to grow their words again. And so this is the inheritance; this is the wavelength which connects us with dead men and the dawning of new beings not yet come to light.”

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