Quotes for Spring

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More inspirational quotes for the season

Mole finds his home again

He saw clearly how plain and simple – how narrow even – it all was, but clearly, too, how much it all meant to him, and the special value of some such anchorage in one’s existence. He did not at all want to abandon the new life and its splendid spaces, to turn his back on sun and air and all they offered him and creep home and stay there, the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to, this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad to see him again, and could always be counted upon for the same simple welcome.

Learn, my brothers
Think and read
And from the foreigner learn
But do not your own disdain
(Translated from the Ukrainian)

Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind.

The more I study science, the more I believe in God.

There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.

The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious. It is the fundamental emotion that stands at the cradle of true art and true science.

I know not with what weapons World War III will be fought, but World War IV will be fought with sticks and stones.

Life was not meant to be easy, but take heart my son, for it can be beautiful.
(After G.B. Shaw)

All the greatest men are maniacs. They are possessed by a mania which drives them forward towards their goal. The great scientists, the artists, the philosophers, the religious leaders – all maniacs. What else but a blind singleness of purpose could have given focus to their genius, would have kept them in the groove of purpose?