"All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it."

-- Nick Cave

#Ideas Quotes #Idle Quotes

“The inner journey is as individual as our thumbprint. We need to guide others on their way and never impose our way upon them.”
“A stranger can see in an instant something in you that you might spend years learning about yourself. How awful we all are when we look at ourselves under a light, finally seeing our reflections. How little we know about ourselves. How much forgiveness it must take to love a person, to choose not to see their flaws, or to see those flaws and love the person anyway. If you never forgive youâ€™ll always be alone.”

Source : Stephen Elliott (2010). “The Adderall Diaries: A Memoir of Moods, Masochism, and Murder (Large Print 16pt)”, p.158, ReadHowYouWant.com
“It's fun when you are on tour to go a place you are familiar with in any given city. It's like being home away from home.”
“What Marxism calls atheism is basically the negation of an idol, which sometimes bears the name of God.”

Source : Source: www.crisismagazine.com
“In love relationships, there's such intimacy, and the potential to be the most vulnerable and honest and raw with another person. Why can't we have that transparency with everyone in our lives and reach that higher connection?”
“We should tell ourselves once and for all that it is the first duty of the soul to become as happy, complete, independent, and great as lies in its power. To this end we may sacrifice even the passion for sacrifice, for sacrifice never should be the means of ennoblement, but only the sign of being ennobled.”
“Standing, as I do, in view of God and eternity, I realise that patriotism is not enough. I must have no hatred or bitterness towards anyone (On the eve of her execution)”

Source : Edith Cavell's statement said the night before her execution (October 11, 1915), as reported in an account by Reverend H. Stirling Gahan in "Source Records of the Great War, Volume III" edited by Charles F. Horne, 1923.
“Thermodynamics is a funny subject. The first time you go through it, you don't understand it at all. The second time you go through it, you think you understand it, except for one or two small points. The third time you go through it, you know you don't understand it, but by that time you are so used to it, it doesn't bother you any more.”

Source : "Physical Chemistry in Depth". Textbook by Johannes Karl Fink, p. 1, 1992.

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