Pestki Slonecznika Quotes

The greatest happiness for the thinking person is to have explored the explorable and to venerate in equanimity that which cannot be explored. ~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe

Life is random and fucked-up and arbitrary, until you find someone who can make sense of it all for you - if only temporarily. ~ Matthew Quick

To lose the approbation of my dog is a thing too horrible to contemplate. ~ Barbara Dana

Economy does not consist in saving the coal, but in using the time while it burns. ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson

[T]he greatest threat that the world faces is a nuclear Iran. ~ Mitt Romney

Even when a person has all of life's comforts - good food, good shelter, a companion - he or she can still become unhappy when encountering a tragic situation. ~ Dalai Lama

Would you kill one person to save one thousand? And by logical extension, would you not kill one thousand to save one-thousand-and-one? ~ Amie Kaufman

But the planes have a new elegant shape. Not one unnecessary ornament." "Yes," said Mabo softly and watched the planes fly off through the sky with a childlike innocence. "A form with no unneeded ornaments is nice. ~ Osamu Dazai

As soon as possible, experts hungrily seek feedback on how they did. Necessarily, much of that feedback is negative. This means that experts are more interested in what they did wrong - so they can fix it - than what they did right. The active processing of this feedback is as essential as its immediacy. ~ Angela Duckworth