The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation; it was planned like the growth of the body, of the plants and animals and people - every living thing that God had created.

In order to win you must be prepared to lose something. And leave one or two cards showing.

Van Morrison

Great passions, my dear, don't exist: they're liars fantasies. What do exist are little loves that may last for a short or a longer while.

Anna Magnani

My mom, Irmelin, taught me the value of life. Her own life was saved by my grandmother during World War II.

Leonardo DiCaprio

The courage of a soldier is heightened by his knowledge of his profession.

Publius Flavius Vegetius Renatus

Just as Pollock used the drip to meld process and product, Richter 'found' and used the smudge and the blur to ravish the eye, creating works of psychic and physical power.

Jerry Saltz

Scientology does not teach you. It only reminds you. For the information was yours in the first place.

L. Ron Hubbard

We sometimes choose the most locked up, dark versions of the story, but what a good friend does is turn on the lights, open the window, and remind us that there are a whole lot of ways to tell the same story.

Shauna Niequist

Refining is inevitable in science when you have made measurements of a phenomenon for a long period of time.

Charles Francis Richter

I thought I could describe a state; make a map of sorrow. Sorrow, hoever, turns out to be not a state but a process.

C.S. Lewis

I love you like a river that creates the right conditions for trees and bushes and flowers to flourish along its banks. I love you like a river that gives water to the thirsty and takes people where they want to go.

Paulo Coelho

Affliction is enamoured of thy parts, and thou art wedded to calamity.

William Shakespeare

It's the last inch that counts.

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