QUOTABLE QUOTES

"I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world." "The significant problems we have cannot be solved at the same level of thinking with which we created them." “There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  " Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results." "Two things are infinite: the universe and human stupidity; and I'm not sure about the universe." "The important thing is not to stop questioning; curiosity has its own reason for existing." "Human knowledge and skills alone cannot lead humanity to a happy and dignified life. Humanity has every reason to place the proclaimers of high moral standards and values above the discoverers of objective truth....

“Creativity is contagious. Pass it on.” Albert Einstein

"I wanted very much to learn to draw, for a reason that I kept to myself: I wanted to convey an emotion I have about the beauty of the world. It’s difficult to describe because it’s an emotion. It’s analogous to the feeling one has in religion that has to do with a god that controls everything in the universe: there’s a generality aspect that you feel when you think about how things that appear so different and behave so differently are all run ‘behind the scenes’ by the same organization, the same physical laws. It’s an appreciation of the mathematical beauty of nature, of how she works inside; a realization that the phenomena we see result from the complexity of the inner workings between atoms; a feeling of how dramatic and wonderful it is. It’s a feeling of awe — of scientific awe — which I felt could be communicated through a drawing to someone who had also had that emotion. I could remind him, for a moment, of this feeling about the glories of the universe....

"You write until you come to a place where you still have your juice and you know what will happen next and you stop and  try to live through until the next day when you hit it again." Ernest Hemingway

"We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be."   Kurt Vonnegut

"I would then try to explain why I was quiet.  But I never felt I could tell the truth - that I was, naturally more of a listener; I was a little on the shy side; I lacked confidence in myself; and I’m an introvert."   LEANNE CHAPMAN

"It is not only possible to be the person you pretend to be, but there is less effort involved."   Robert Brault

" Happiness is not something ready made.  It comes from your own actions." Dalai Lama

"You are terrifying and strange and beautiful. Something not everyone knows how to love." Warsan Shire

"Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas"   Marie Curie

“In the midst of winter, I found there was within me,  an invincible summer."   Albert Camus