Arthur

“Most important, I stumbled into a new sort of “happiness,” one that didn’t hinge on always getting what I want, but rather, on wanting what I have. It’s the kind of happiness that isn’t tied so tightly to being comfortable (or having money and property), but instead is linked to a deeper sense of satisfaction—to a sense of humility and gratitude, and a better understanding of who I am in my heart.”
― Dee Williams, The Big Tiny: A Built-It-Myself Memoir

“I tell my students, 'When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”
― Toni Morrison

“Finding out that something you have just discovered is considered all but impossible is one of the joys of science.”
― Mike Brown, How I Killed Pluto and Why It Had It Coming

“There is a proverb which says "As the soul is at three so it is at one hundred,”
― Yei Theodora Ozaki, Japanese Fairy Tales