Nora Hu

Add friend
Sign in to Goodreads to learn more about Nora.


What If?: Serious...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Gödel, Escher, Ba...
Rate this book
Clear rating

 
Loading...
Edwin A. Abbott
“Behold yon miserable creature. That Point is a Being like ourselves, but confined to the non-dimensional Gulf. He is himself his own World, his own Universe; of any other than himself he can form no conception; he knows not Length, nor Breadth, nor Height, for he has had no experience of them; he has no cognizance even of the number Two; nor has he a thought of Plurality, for he is himself his One and All, being really Nothing. Yet mark his perfect self-contentment, and hence learn this lesson, that to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.”
Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Rabindranath Tagore
“Let my thoughts come to you, when I am gone, like the afterglow of sunset at the margin of starry silence.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

Fyodor Dostoevsky
“We're always thinking of eternity as an idea that cannot be understood, something immense. But why must it be? What if, instead of all this, you suddenly find just a little room there, something like a village bath-house, grimy, and spiders in every corner, and that's all eternity is. Sometimes, you know, I can't help feeling that that's what it is.”
Fyodor Dostoevsky, Crime and Punishment

Malcolm Gladwell
“Hard work is a prison sentence only if it does not have meaning. Once it does, it becomes the kind of thing that makes you grab your wife around the waist and dance a jig. (150)”
Malcolm Gladwell, Outliers: The Story of Success

Rabindranath Tagore
“We read the world wrong and say that it deceives us.”
Rabindranath Tagore, Stray Birds

year in books
Amber
392 books | 114 friends

October...
1,689 books | 36 friends

Jatin
654 books | 127 friends

Kaitlyn...
193 books | 170 friends

Jiexi Cao
848 books | 190 friends

Josiah ...
252 books | 129 friends

Lynn Zhang
405 books | 87 friends

aj
aj
1,407 books | 136 friends

More friends…



Polls voted on by Nora

Lists liked by Nora