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Quote by Fernando Pessoa

“For who expects nothing, all that comes is grateful”

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Portuguese poet known for his unique narrative style and rich inner world. Fernando Pessoa is considered one of the most influential writers of the 20th century, and his works are still widely studied and discussed today. more

“I would never talk just to be social. Now, to sit down with a bunch of engineers and talk about the latest concrete forming systems, that's really interesting. Talking with animal behaviorists or with someone who likes to sail, that's interesting. Information is interesting to me. But talking for the sake of talking, I find that quite boring.”

Inspirational Funny Social Animal Interesting Talking Information Sake Boring Likes Bunch Concrete Engineers Sail Sailing Really Interesting

Author:Temple Grandin

“I swear I will never henceforth have to do with the faith that tells the best! I will have to do only with that faith that leaves the best untold.”

Faith Swear

Book:Leaves of Grass

Source: Leaves of Grass

“But the people are ungrammatical, untidy, and their sins gaunt and ill-bred.”

People Sin Ill

Book:The Portable Walt Whitman

Source: The Portable Walt Whitman

“Books are to be called for and supplied on the assumption that the process of reading is not a half-sleep, but in the highest sense an exercise, a gymnastic struggle; that the reader is to do something for himself.”

Book Reading Process Sleep Half Struggle Reader Exercise Highest Assumption

Book:Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

Source: Two rivulets, including Democratic vistas, Centennial songs, and Passage to India [and As a strong bird on pinions free, and Memoranda during the war. Author's ed

“Roaming in thought over the Universe, I saw the little that is Good steadily hastening towards immortality, And the vast all that is called Evil I saw hastening to merge itself and become lost and dead.”

Littles Universe Evil Lost Saws Goodness Immortality Roaming

Author:Walt Whitman

“Great is Youth--equally great is Old Age--great are Day and Night. Great is Wealth--great is Poverty--great is Expression-great is Silence.”

Age Night Wealth Silence Poverty Youth Greatness Expression Old Age Day And Night

Book:Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

Source: Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition

“A man is a great thing upon the earth and through eternity; but every jot of the greatness of man is unfolded out of woman.”

Men Earth Greatness Eternity Great Things Greatness Of Man

Book:Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

Source: Leaves of Grass: A Textual Variorum of the Printed Poems, 1855-1856

“Out of the cradle endlessly rocking, Out of the mocking bird's throat, the musical shuttle, . . . . A reminiscence sing.”