Viridian5

“The secret of life is honesty and fair dealing. If you can fake that, you've got it made.”
― Groucho Marx

“The thing about optimism is that it's not optimism unless things are kind of bad! Otherwise you're just a realist.”
― Annie Clarke (St. Vincent)

“I think [doubt is] perceived in this culture as something weak or denatured, and that’s a huge mistake. Conviction is what you do to be comfortable, to write The End on thinking. Doubt keeps you in the present, it keeps you conscious and reacting to and acting on what is going on now. It’s work, and people like to avoid work.”
― John Patrick Shanley

“Nothing is so fatal to the progress of the human mind as to suppose our views of science are ultimate; that there are no mysteries in nature; that our triumphs are complete; and that there are no new worlds to conquer.”
― Humphrey Davy