Whoever will cultivate their own mind will find full employment. Every virtue does not only require great care in the planting, but as much daily solicitude in cherishing as exotic fruits and flowers.
– Mary Wortley Montagu (1689-1762)
I think what weakens people most is fear of wasting their strength.
– Etty Hillesum
“The soul grows well when giving and receiving love. Love is, after all, a verb, an action word, not a noun.”
– Joan Borysenko
It is not easy to convey,
unless one has experienced it,
the dramatic feeling
of sudden enlightenment
that floods the mind
when the right idea
finally clinches into place.
– Francis Harry Compton Crick
Life is to be lived. If you have to support yourself, you had bloody well better find some way that is going to be interesting. And you don’t do that by sitting around.
– Katharine Hepburn