"Instead of educating the I.Q., we need to educate the H.Q., the heart quotient, the matters of truth, love, justice, and compassion. There are two ways to do this. One is through the read life experiences and the other is through literature. Literature has the power to take us outside ourselves and returns to ourselves a changed self."

-- Jim Trelease

#Heart Quotes #Compassion Quotes #Self Quotes

“Only that which is well done is quickly done.”
“The aim of science is to discover and illuminate truth. And that, I take it, is the aim of literature, whether biography or history or fiction. It seems to me, then, that there can be no separate literature of science.”
“Feel all you can, let your heart speak and guide you. Don't be afraid of the love deep inside you.”
“I was signed at 19 years old to a major label, and dropped by the time I was 22.”
“People keep coming up to me and asking, 'How does it feel to be banned for life?' Banned for life. I wasn't banned for life. There was never a word of suspension, probation or ban in that agreement. It was never meant to be part of it.”
“Its intuition that works. Just intuition.""Waterstones was aimed at me. I knew that I wanted, and badly needed in my life, bookshops just like the ones I was creating. I simply assumed that plenty of other people, no doubt of wildly differing demographics, would find once they saw them that they wanted them too. Well - they did.”

Source : Tim Waterstone (2013). “Swimming Against the Stream: Creating Your Business and Making Your Life”, p.130, Pan Macmillan
“If adventure has a final and all-embracing motive, it is surely this: we go out because it is our nature to go out, to climb mountains, and to paddle rivers, to fly to the planets and plunge into the depths of the oceans... When man ceases to do these things, he is no longer man.”
“Success is important only to the extent that it puts one in a position to do more things one likes to do.”

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