Never limit yourself because of others’ limited imagination; never limit others because of your own limited imagination.
– Mae Jemison
Tag: quotes
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Quotation Monday #13: Imagination
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Quotation Monday #12: Road not taken
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.– Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken
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Quotation Monday #11: Talent
Everyone has talent. What is rare is the courage to follow the talent to the dark place where it leads.
Erica Jong
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Quotation Monday #10: Smell
“Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside a lake in the mountains…”
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Quotation Monday #9: Dreams
Go confidently in the direction of your dreams. Live the life you have imagined.
– Thoreau
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Quotation Monday #8: Prayer
Where there is hatred, let me sow love;
Where there is injury, pardon:
Where there is doubt, faith ;
Where there is despair, hope
Where there is darkness, light
Where there is sadness, joySt. Francis of Assisi
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Quotation Monday #7: National anthem
Since it is the Norwegian constitution day today.
Norway, thine is our devotion,
Land of hearth and home,
Rising storm-scarr’d from the ocean,
Where the breakers foam.
Oft to thee our thoughts are wending,
Land that gave us birth,
And to saga nights still sending
Dreams upon our earth,
And to saga nights still sending
Dreams upon us on our earth– The first verse of the Norwegian National Anthem, translated to English
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Quotation Monday #5: Knowledge
In time for exams
To be conscious that you are ignorant is a great step to knowledge.
– Benjamin Disraeli (1804 – 1881)