"No fashion has ever been created expressly for the lean purse or for the fat woman: the dressmaker's ideal is the thin millionaires."

-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould

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“Has my heart gone to sleep? Have the beehives of my dreams stopped working, the waterwheel of the mind run dry, scoops turning empty, only shadow inside? No, my heart is not asleep. It is awake, wide awake. Not asleep, not dreamingâ€” its eyes are opened wide watching distant signals, listening on the rim of vast silence”

Source : Antonio Machado, Alan S. Trueblood (1982). “Antonio Machado”, p.93, Harvard University Press
“Success is a finished book, a stack of pages each of which is filled with words. If you reach that point, you have won a victory over yourself no less impressive than sailing single-handed around the world.”
“How wonderful to be alive, he thought. But why does it always hurt?”

Source : "Doctor Zhivago". Book by Boris Pasternak, 1957.
“When our souls are healthy, we change the environment; the environment doesn't change us.”
“More and more of out colleagues fail to understand our work because of the high specialization of research problems. We must not be discouraged if the products of our labor are not read or even known to exist. The joy of research must be found in doing since every other harvest is uncertain.”
“I like to read quotes that touch on how I am feeling [on social media]. If I am dealing with confusion, I will read quotes about clarity and peace of mind. I started posting these quotes on my Twitter page, and the fans responded so positively! I realized that many of them were dealing with similar issues, and the quotes helped to open up a genuine dialogue between us.”
“It is worth while too to warn the teacher that undue severity in correcting faults is liable at times to discourage a boy's mind from effort.”
“It is perfect to be imperfect, because perfection is made up of many imperfections put together that makes it perfect.”

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