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Treasured Quotes

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

Now, I wear a watch cap just like my father, all winter, inside the house and out, and though my wife complains that I look foolish I discover, what my father in his turn had discovered, that there is no pain and a certain pleasure in looking foolish. Looking foolish does the spirit good. The need not to look foolish is one of youth's many burdens; as we get older we are exempted from more and more, and float upward in our heedlessness, singing Gratia Dei sum quod sum.
John Updike, Self-Consciousness: Memoirs

All that mankind has done, thought, gained or been: it is lying as in magic preservation in the pages of books.
Thomas Carlyle

"Vocation," for example, means "to be called," which implies that Someone has called you. "Mission" means "to be sent," which implies that Someone has sent you. The implied Someone, of course, is God. To explore the job hunt deeply, in its language and its history, is to end up in the land of faith.
Richard Nelson Bolles

We lead our lives like water flowing down a hill, going more or less in one direction until we splash into something that forces us to find a new course.
Arthur Golden, Memoirs of a Geisha

The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.
Arthur C. Clarke

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