"To love someone fiercely, to believe in something with your whole heart, to celebrate a fleeting moment in time, to fully engage in a life that doesnâ€™t come with guarantees â€“ these are risks that involve vulnerability and often pain. But, Iâ€™m learning that recognizing and leaning into the discomfort of vulnerability teaches us how to live with joy, gratitude and grace."

-- BrenÃ© Brown

#Gratitude Quotes #Pain Quotes #Believe Quotes

“The natural environment sustains the life of all beings universally.”
“Why can't we talk about sex just to talk about it? Because it's fun and silly and gross and exciting and disturbing and confusing and totally hot, sometimes all at once.”
“Christine O'Donnell is making a mockery of running for public office. She has no real history, no real success in any kind of business. And what that sends to my generation is, one day, you can just wake up and run for Senate, no matter how [much] lack of experience you have.”

Source : "O'Donnell and Coons". "This Week", abcnews.go.com. October 17, 2010.
“My sons the same, hes terribly funny. Its a wonderful power to have. Its also fantastically disarming. Women find it unbelievably disarming. You can say the most astonishing things if youre funny. You can tell a woman that shes irresistibly attractive, but do it in such a funny way.”
“To be inspired - that's the secret.”
“There is one very good reason to learn programming, but it has nothing to do with preparing for high-tech careers or with making sure one is computer literate in order to avoid being cynically manipulated by the computers of the future. The real value of learning to program can only be understood if we look at learning to program as an exercise of the intellect, as a kind of modern-day Latin that we learn to sharpen our minds.”

Source : Roger C. Schank, Peter G. Childers (1984). “The cognitive computer: on language, learning, and artificial intelligence”, Addison-Wesley
“There is a general place in your brain, I think, reserved for melancholy of relationships past. It grows and prospers as life progresses, forcing you finally, against your better judgment, to listen to country music.”

Source : Kary Mullis (2010). “Dancing Naked in the Mind Field”, p.13, Vintage
“I should get a manicure more often.”

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