"So many memories and so little worth remembering, and in front of me â€” a long, long road without a goal..."

-- Ivan Turgenev

#Memories Quotes #Long Quotes #Goal Quotes

“What Iâ€™ve learned through my meditation is a sense of equanimity, a sense of all things being equal.”
“I retired at age 40 because my daughters looked at me one day and said: 'Dad, being bald and wearing shorts doesn't look good together'.”
“It is as easy to give advice to yourself as to others, and as useless.”
“Confidence is a plant of slow growth ...”

Source : Speech in 'Hansard' 14 January 1766, col. 97
“In life there are two things which are dependable. The pleasures of the flesh and the pleasures of literature.”
“Defiance is beautiful. The defiance of power, especially great or overwhelming power, exalts and glorifies the rebel.”
“I liked sports but I never really had the confidence. I was always coordinated and it came easy to me, but I didn't have the confidence to go along with the physical skill.”
“On foundations we believe in the reality of mathematics, but of course, when philosophers attack us with their paradoxes, we rush to hide behind formalism and say 'mathematics is just a combination of meaningless symbols,'... Finally we are left in peace to go back to our mathematics and do it as we have always done, with the feeling each mathematician has that he is working with something real. The sensation is probably an illusion, but it is very convenient.”

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