#life

Life's challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they're supposed to help you discover who you are. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#discover #help #life #paralyze #supposed

I was at the Smithsonian for twenty years, and I'm still at the Smithsonian as a curator emeritus, and I still plan to figure out what that means for me at this point in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#figure #i #life #me #means

The voice I have now, I got the first time I sang in a movement meeting, after I got out of jail... and I'd never heard it before in my life. ↗

— Bernice Johnson Reagon

#before #first #first time #got #heard

Art has two constant, two unending concerns: It always meditates on death and thus always creates life. All great, genuine art resembles and continues the Revelation of St John. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#art #concerns #constant #continues #creates

Surprise is the greatest gift which life can grant us. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#grant #greatest #greatest gift #life #surprise

The universe is asymmetric and I am persuaded that life, as it is known to us, is a direct result of the asymmetry of the universe or of its indirect consequences. ↗

— Louis Pasteur

#consequences #direct #direct result #i #i am

To burn always with this hard, gem-like flame, to maintain this ecstasy, is success in life. ↗

— Walter Pater

#burn #ecstasy #flame #hard #life

We will emerge stronger as a diverse community; the area will be rebuilt with life around the clock, new buildings, restaurants, places of entertainment. ↗

— George Pataki

#around #buildings #clock #community #diverse

That sense of a life in natural objects, which in most poetry is but a rhetorical artifice, was, then, in Wordsworth the assertion of what was for him almost literal fact. ↗

— Walter Pater

#artifice #assertion #fact #him #life

I will say overwhelmingly what means so much more to me than the opinion of one reviewer are the letters I get from fans who tell me how a particular book has changed their life. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#changed #fans #get #how #i