"Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism."

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Source : "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2006.

Bernard Beckett

#Optimism Quotes #Curiosity Quotes #Faces Quotes

“It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together.”

Source : Julia Alvarez (2007). “Before We Were Free”, p.44, Laurel Leaf
“To those who view the voyage of life from the port of departure the bark that has accomplished any considerable distance appears already in close approach to the farther shore.”
“When you Rectify your Relationship with the Creator, He Rectifies your relationship with All of the Creation.”
“In the popular mind, if Hoyle is remembered it is as the prime mover of the discredited Steady State theory of the universe. "Everybody knows" that the rival Big Bang theory won the battle of the cosmologies, but few (not even astronomers) appreciate that the mathematical formalism of the now-favoured version of Big Bang, called inflation, is identical to Hoyle's version of the Steady State model.”
“Style is the feather in the arrow, not the feather in the cap.”

Source : George Sampson (2013). “Seven Essays”, p.67, Cambridge University Press
“Where there is no freedom, there is death and destruction.”
“If I hadn't gone to Stanford, I'd be working at P&G now.”
“... swept into the giddy vortex which keeps so many young people revolving aimlessly, till they go down or are cast upon the shore, wrecks of what they might have been”

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