"My own ambition, my deepest and truest ambition, is to find within myself someday, somehow, the ability to do likewise, to do NOTHING - and find it enough."

-- Edward Abbey

#Ambition Quotes #Someday Quotes #Enough Quotes

“If you believe in justice, surely you believe in the hereafter, because this world is not just.”
“Why do we discover faults so much more readily than perfection.”
“Mathematics never reveals man to the degree, never expresses him in the way, that any other field of human endeavour does: the extent of the negation of man's corporeal self that mathematics achieves cannot be compared with anything. Whoever is interested in this subject I refer to my articles. Here I will say only that the world injected its patterns into human language at the very inception of that language; mathematics sleeps in every utterance, and can only be discovered, never invented.”
“Things danced on the screen do not look the way they do on the stage. On the stage, dancing is three-dimensional, but a motion picture is two-dimensional.”
“Crossing the uplands of time, Skirting the borders of night, Scaling the face of the peak of dreams, We enter the region of light, And hastening on with eager intent, Arrive at the rainbow's end, And here uncover the pot of gold Buried deep in the heart of a friend.”
“Personally I find the democratic chaos of the Internet fascinating, and for the most part really benign.”
“We may not all live holy lives, but we live in a world alive with holy moments.”
“We should not and cannot change all our differences. Each of us brings from our own background things which we should share. There is good in diversity.”

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