Some of my Favorite Quotes

Life lessons

"Do a little more of that work which you sometimes confessed to be good, which you feel that society and your justest judge rightly demands of you. Do what you reprove yourself for not doing. Know that you are neither satisfied nor dissatisfied with yourself without reason. Let me say to you and to myself in one breath, Cultivate the tree which you have found to bear fruit in your soil. Regard not your past failures nor successes. All the past is equally a failure and a success; it is a success in as much as it offers you the present opportunity..."
- Henry David Thoreau

"I slept, and I dreamed life is a pleasure.
I woke, and I saw life is work.
I worked, and I saw life is pleasure."
- Rabindranath Tagore

"In life, the journey is the destination."
- A t-shirt I saw

"Happiness doesn't come from possessing things. It comes from being a part of things."
- Chris Stevens (from Northern Exposure)

"The search for truth is more precious than its possession."
- Albert Einstein

"Happiness is not a state to arrive at, but a manner of traveling."
- Margaret Lee Runbeck

"Men are not punished for their sins, but by them."
- Elbert G. Hubbard

"The first time in orbit everyone points to their country. On the third or fourth day they point to their continent. By the fifth day they become aware of only one earth."
- Yuri Romanenko

Science

"If you haven't found something strange during the day, it hasn't been much of a day."
- John Wheeler

"Omnia apud me mathematica fiunt." ("With me everything turns into mathematics.")
- René Descartes

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth."
- Albert Einstein

Humor

"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read."
- Groucho Marx

"Scientists are a friendly, atheistic, hard-working, beer-drinking lot whose minds are preoccupied with sex, chess, and baseball when they are not preoccupied with science."
- Yann Martel, in "Life of Pi"

"Statistics is never having to say you're certain."
- Unknown

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