Truth was a changing display in a shop window, manipulated by hands when you weren’t looking, alluring and ever out of reach.
“It is not enough
to embrace knowledge
if we are not also willing
to use that knowledge
to benefit the world.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
to embrace knowledge
if we are not also willing
to use that knowledge
to benefit the world.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
“Life should be about curiosity,
wonder and discovery --
not grades.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
wonder and discovery --
not grades.”
― Force of Nature: A Novel of Rachel Carson
“Not a wind, not even a high, exactly, but an elevation. A sense that you had gone beyond yourself and could go farther still.”
― Elevation
― Elevation
“I will be calm. I will be mistress of myself.”
― Sense and Sensibility
― Sense and Sensibility
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