Jean Henri Casimir Fabre Quotes & Sayings

There's a limit beyond which one cannot progress. The differences between the limiting abilities of those on successively higher steps of the pyramid are enormous. I have not seen described anywhere the shock a talented man experiences when he finds, late in his academic life, that there are others enormously more talented than he. I have personally seen more tears shed by grown men and women over this discovery than I would have believed possible. — Luis W. Alvarez

My wealth of merit gathered in, With reverence but without conceptual target, When shall I reveal this truth of emptiness To those who go to ruin through belief in real existence? — Santideva

When I sit up here ... I'm just blown away God even notices us ... — Denise Hunter

There are robberies that leave man or woman forever beggared of peace and joy, yet kept secret by the sufferer. — George Eliot

Women have very little idea of how much men hate them. — Germaine Greer

I started the Pies Descalzos foundation in Colombia when I was 18, and since then I have been very involved in the crusade for education. — Shakira

If you cannot come, if you fear
What music might wind your feet
In the moss and migrant roots,
What drink will score your throat
Like a sky scratched
By the claw-end of leaves
What wheels will drive you
Home at dawn, where the dew-blades
Bear up the infancies of light -
Then send, in the tremble
Of your own cold hand,
Regrets only, nothing but regrets. — Elton Glaser

In grief we know the worst of what we feel but who can tell the end of what we fear? — Hannah More

The scars on her face said something different about her, too-that she, like Cyra, knew what she was risking when she risked her life."

pg 337 — Veronica Roth

We have far too many ways to interpret past events for our own good. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Seek spiritual riches within. What you are is much greater than anyone or anything else you have ever yearned for. — Paramahansa Yogananda