Biblioteca Nationala Quotes

#1. So it is said, for him who understands Heavenly joy, life is the working of Heaven; death is the transformation of things. In stillness, he and the yin share a single Virtue; in motion, he and the yang share a single flow.

Zhuangzi

#2. Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger of extinction, then common sense demands that we re-examine our reverence for knowledge.

Bill Joy

#3. He scanned the page looking for an entry that read, "Help! I'm Almost Thirteen Years Old and I Still Have the Muscles of a Third-Grader!" but apparently Robert's condition was so freakish and rare, the authors of the book didn't even bother to include it.

Charles Gilman

#4. Most kids grow sullen and angry when they're working through issues, but Thanet mustered up another kind of bull-headed strength. The kind that sees beyond circumstances to what really matters. How could anyone hurt a soul that lovely?

Laura Anderson Kurk

#5. I still think that if you're excited about something, you have to work at it.

Ezra Koenig

#6. For sure I once thought of myself as the poet who would save the ordinary from oblivion.

Philip Levine

#7. One cannot transcend the body or mind just by repeating the mantra "I am not the body and I am not the mind".

Amit Ray

#8. Where does beauty begin? Where does it end? Where it ends is where the artist begins.

John Cage

#9. And so I step up, int the darkness within; or else the light.

Margaret Atwood

#10. Fearlessness in the face of your own ineptitude is a useful tool to have.

Michael Cunningham