"What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!"

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Source : Victor Hugo (1864). “Les misérables”, p.320, VOOK

Victor Hugo

#Love Quotes #Wisdom Quotes #Stills Quotes

“A calling is you feel - you look out and see the need - maybe it's the need for the poor, to help poor people. Maybe it's the need to get involved in the race problem, as Martin Luther King was - felt called.”
“I used to get on a stove wood pile at 5-6 years old and I would have a piece of stove wood and kindling bark as a pick, and I was a star.”
“My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.”
“The point of mathematics is that in it we have always got rid of the particular instance, and even of any particular sorts of entities. So that for example, no mathematical truths apply merely to fish, or merely to stones, or merely to colours. So long as you are dealing with pure mathematics, you are in the realm of complete and absolute abstraction. . . . Mathematics is thought moving in the sphere of complete abstraction from any particular instance of what it is talking about.”
“Happiness is not synonymous with pleasure. It is, instead, a deeper emotion that originates from within. . . . Happiness results from a sense of mental and moral contentment with who we are, what we value, and how we invest our time and resources for purposes beyond ourselves.”
“To me - old age is always ten years older than I am.”
“Mountains are not fair or unfair, they are just dangerous.”

Source : "All Fourteen 8,000ers". Book by Reinhold Messner, 1987.
“I never even watched football growing up. I just play the game.”

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