Solages Elmont Quotes & Sayings

An old man who cannot bid farewell to life appears as feeble and sickly as the young man who is unable to embrace it. — Carl Jung

What about a teakettle? What if the spout opened and closed when the steam came out, so it would become a mouth, and it could whistle pretty melodies, or do Shakespeare, or just crack up with me? I could invent a teakettle that reads in Dad's voice, so I could fall asleep, or maybe a set of kettles that sings the chorus of "Yellow Submarine," which is a song by the Beatles, who I love, because entomology is one of my raisons d'etre, which is a French expression that I know. — Jonathan Safran Foer

Qualities like love and compassion are not just abstract virtues that are the property of saints and adepts. Anyone can develop these qualities in themselves by doing spiritual practices. As the Buddha said, Come and see. — Joanna Macy

The middle path is the way to wisdom — Jalaluddin Rumi

The nuclear industry has this amazing record, even equipment from generations one and two. But nuclear mishaps tend to come in these big events - Chernobyl, Three Mile Island, and now Fukushima - so it's more visible. — Bill Gates

Most works of art are, necessarily, bad ... ; one suffers through the many for the few. — Randall Jarrell

Other people's opinion have no impact on your self esteem unless you allow it. — Kishore Bansal

I believe in deeply ordered chaos — Francis Bacon

We can ... treat only the geometrical aspects of mathematics and shall be satisfied in having shown that there is no problem of the truth of geometrical axioms and that no special geometrical visualization exists in mathematics. — Hans Reichenbach

Torvalds decided to use the GNU General Public License, not because he fully embraced the free-sharing ideology of Stallman (or for that matter his own parents) but because he thought that letting hackers around the world get their hands on the source code would lead to an open collaborative effort that would make it a truly awesome piece of software. "My reasons for putting Linux out there were pretty selfish," he said. "I didn't want the headache of trying to deal with parts of the operating system that I saw as the crap work. I wanted help."136 — Walter Isaacson

We're all put here for a reason. And one little movement changes your way of life. — Tommy Lasorda

Your central self is totally untouched by grief, confusion, desperation. — Vernon Howard

So is there a cure?' I asked.
'It's not a disease,' he explained. 'It doesn't need curing. It's just how you are — John Elder Robison

When exercising gifted will-power, move boldly without hesitation. The reward for such decisiveness is increased confidence in what the heart knows, which the mind does not feel — T.F. Hodge

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it. — Roger Federer