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“Today well lived makes every yesterday a dream of happiness.”

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Kalidasa, an ancient Indian poet and playwright, whose exact birth and death dates are unknown. His works are renowned for their beautiful language, profound philosophy, and rich imagination, and have had a profound impact on Indian literature. more

“Jesus reminds us that prayer is a little like children coming to their parents. Our children come to us with the craziest requests at times! Often we are grieved by the meanness and selfishness in their requests, but we would be all the more grieved if they never came to us even with their meanness and selfishness. We are simply glad that they do come--mixed motives and all.”

Ifs Children Littles Would Be Jesus Parent Prayer Our Children Glad Selfishness Motive Request Meanness Craziest

Book:Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

Source: Prayer - 10th Anniversary Edition: Finding the Heart's True Home

“Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.”

Moments Practice Possibility Enlightenment Bones

Book:Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

“The mathematicians know a great deal about very little and the physicists very little about a great deal.”

Knows Littles Deals Mathematician Physicist

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“I'm an agnostic. Sometimes I muse deeply on the forces that are for me invisible. When I am almost close to the idea of God, I feel immediately estranged by the horrors of this world, which he seems to tolerate.”

World Feels Ideas Sometimes Seems Force This World Horror Invisible Tolerate Muse Agnostic

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Do not lose your faith. A mighty fortress is our mathematics. Mathematics will rise to the challenge, as it always has.”

Loses Challenges Mathematics Fortresses

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Sometimes I feel that a more rational explanation for all that has happened during my lifetime is that I am still only thirteen years old, reading Jules Verne or H. G. Wells, and have fallen asleep.”

Feels Years Wells Stills Sometimes Reading Happened Lifetime Rational Fallen Explanation Thirteen Thirteen Year Olds

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“Thinking very hard about the same problem for several hours can produce a severe fatigue, close to a breakdown. I never really experienced a breakdown, but have felt "strange inside" two or three times during my life.”

Thinking Two Hard Problem Three Felt Hours Produce Strange Severe Three Times Fatigue Breakdown

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“For many years I was the youngest among my mathematical friends. It makes me melancholy to realize that I now have become the oldest in most groups of scientists.”

Years Realizing Groups Scientist Mathematical Melancholy

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

“We may be up against a stone wall, but we don't have to bloody our heads against it unless we choose to.”

May Wall Stones Bloody Stone Walls

Book:Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology

Source: Take Charge of Your Life: How to Get What You Need with Choice-Theory Psychology

“Ada came from Lwów. She was a very good looking girl who was studying mathematics at the University of Geneva. For a few years I had an off-and-on romance with her.”

Years Romance Girl Study Mathematics University Very Good Looking Good Geneva Ada Studying Mathematics

Author:Stanislaw Ulam

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