inspirational quotes

[J. A.]

To taste defeat is to know victory. Mike H 2013

Your thoughts? Great!

 

[Mesqueunclub]

Thanks, Joanna, yes, my thoughts but in a positive sense, but no I didn't suffer. You can't win 'em all, as we say.
I won't say any more here as I do not want to hijack the thread.
Best regards,
Mike

 

[scifan57]

"Only those who attempt the absurd can achieve the impossible." - Albert Einstein

 

[J. A.]

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. (R. Feynman)

 

[Kaykaykay]

Some people say, "How can you live without knowing?" I do not know what they mean. I always live without knowing. That is easy. How you get to know is what I want to know. (R. Feynman)

I love that he wrote this about science. The absolutists are the ones I don't trust.

 

[Iriana]

Do something today that your future self will thank you for.

 

[scifan57]

"The hardest battle you are ever going to have to fight is the battle to be just you." - Leo Buscaglia

 

[J. A.]

Our country is that spot to which our heart is bound. Voltaire

 

[scifan57]

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." - George Carlin

 

[J. A.]

"May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house." - George Carlin

It sounds like a mixture of Star Wars and Irish Blessing.

 

[J. A.]

I think the world is like a great mirror, and reflects our lives just as we ourselves look upon it. Those who turn sad faces toward the world find only sadness reflected. But a smile is reflected in the same way, and cheers and brightens our hearts. ~ L. Frank Baum

 

[scifan57]

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty it of the stuff that makes us weep." - Clive Barker

 

[J. A.]

"Any fool can be happy. It takes a man with real heart to make beauty it of the stuff that makes us weep." - Clive Barker

I have some difficulties understanding this part: to make beauty it of the stuff...

 

[scifan57]

I have some difficulties understanding this part: to make beauty it of the stuff...

It's a quote from a Clive Barker book, "Days of Magic, Nights of War" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Days_of_Magic,_Nights_of_War

http://www.goodreads.com/work/quotes/997754-days-of-magic-nights-of-war-abarat-2y

 

[zstairlessone]

"Pierre Curie, a brilliant scientist, happened to marry a still more brilliant one—Marie, the famous Madame Curie—and is the only great scientist in history who is consistently identified as the husband of someone else."
— Isaac Asimov