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Dreams come true

  Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike In all affairs it's a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted. - Bertrand Russell A thinker sees his own actions as experiments and questions--as attempts to find out something. Success and failure are for him answers above all. - Friedrich Nietzsche, The Gay Science, section 41 The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous structure of reality. It is enough if one tries merely to comprehend a little of this mystery every day. Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Keep true to the dreams of thy youth. - Friedrich von Schiller The aim of life is self-development. To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for. - Oscar Wilde The wisest men follo...

10 Quotes

Elvis Presley. Photo: Google I don't know anything about music. In my line you don't have to.  - Elvis Presley  I hate music, especially when it's played.  - Jimmy Durante  My heart, which is so full to overflowing, has often been solaced and refreshed by music when sick and weary.  - Martin Luther If a thing isn't worth saying, you sing it.  - Pierre Beaumarchais  Hope is a waking dream.  - Aristotle My dreams were all my own; I accounted for them to nobody; they were my refuge when annoyed - my dearest pleasure when free.  - Mary Shelly  Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.  - Ralph Waldo Emerson  Change your thoughts and you change your world.  - Norman Vincent Peale  We must not allow the clock and the calendar to blind us to the fact that each moment of life is a miracle and mystery.  - H. G. Wells  You can't build a reputation on what you...

10 quotes for today - 30 January 2019

John Updike (Photo: The Vineyard Gazette) Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it. - Mahatma Gandhi Ever tried? Ever failed? No Matter, try again, fail again, Fail better. - Samuel Beckett Whenever you find that you are on the side of the majority, it is time to reform. - Mark Twain Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil. - C. S. Lewis Men occasionally stumble over the truth, but most of them pick themselves up and hurry off as if nothing ever happened. - Sir Winston Churchill Truth is beautiful, without doubt; but so are lies. - Ralph Waldo Emerson Dreams come true. Without that possibility, nature would not incite us to have them. - John Updike The wisest men follow their own direction. - Euripides Dreams surely are difficult, confusing, and not everything in them is brought to pass for mankind. For fleeting dreams have two gates: one is fashioned of horn a...