There is an abiding beauty which may be appreciated by those who will see things as they are and who will ask for no reward except to see.

#510

There is still, I think, not enough recognition by teachers of the fact that the desire to think (...) must be induced before the power is developed. Most people, whether men or women, wish above all else to be comfortable, and thought is a pre-eminently uncomfortable process.

#465

Perhaps some day the sun will shine again,
And I shall see that still the skies are blue,
And feel one more I do not live in vain,
Although bereft of you.

#464

Albert Einstein • Guy de Maupassant • Milton Glaser • Voltaire • Henry David Thoreau • Friedrich Nietzsche • Confucius • Steven Wright • Kurt D. Cobain • Zig Ziglar • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • anonymous • Mike Monteiro • Martin Luther King Jr. • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Marshall McLuhan • John Maeda • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Elwyn Brooks White • Kahlil Gibran • Mahatma Gandhi • Winston Churchill • Pablo Picasso • Toni Morrison

Vera Brittain

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