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“We are healed to help others. We are blessed to be a blessing. We are saved to serve, not to sit around and wait for heaven.”
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
― The Purpose Driven Life: What on Earth Am I Here for?
“The Astronomer
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
― Aesop's Fables
AN ASTRONOMER used to go out at night to observe the stars. One evening, as he wandered through the suburbs with his whole attention fixed on the sky, he fell accidentally into a deep well. While he lamented and bewailed his sores and bruises, and cried loudly for help, a neighbor ran to the well, and learning what had happened said: "Hark ye, old fellow, why, in striving to pry into what is in heaven, do you not manage to see what is on earth?”
― Aesop's Fables
“The more man learned, the more he realized he did not know.”
― The Lost Symbol
― The Lost Symbol
“Such poisoning of waters set aside for conservation purposes could have consequences felt by every western duck hunter and by everyone to whom the sight and sound of drifting ribbons of waterfowl across an evening sky are precious. These”
― Silent Spring
― Silent Spring
“Бібліотеки — то неймовірна штука: часом здається, ніби стоїш на вокзальній платформі і, читаючи з книжкових сторінок про екзотичні місця, подорожуєш далекими країнами.”
― The Prague Cemetery
― The Prague Cemetery
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