"Of the blessings set before you make your choice, and be content. No man can taste the fruits of autumn while he is delighting his scent with the flowers of the spring: no man can, at the same time, fill his cup from the source and from the mouth of the Nile."

-- Samuel Johnson

#Spring Quotes #Flower Quotes #Autumn Quotes

“Adversity reveals genius, prosperity conceals it.”
“I donâ€™t feel that I am a visitor in Ghana or in any part of Africa. I feel that I am at home.”
“I should think myself a very bad woman, if I had done what I do for a farthing less.”
“two powerful, opposing forces - one seducing people to eat and the other telling them they are failures if they do - create heartache everywhere.”
“I'm the type of person, I cross the bridges once I get to 'em. I don't try to plan my life three, four months in advance, because you don't know if tomorrow's promised to you.”
“You don't build it for yourself. You know what the people want and you build it for them.”
“The illusion of purpose and design is perhaps the most pervasive illusion about nature that science has to confront on a daily basis.”

Source : "A Universe Without Purpose" by Lawrence M. Krauss, www.huffingtonpost.com. April 26, 2012.
“Get over it - If you have a bad workout or run a bad race, allow yourself exactly 1 hour to stew about it-then move on.”

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