Greater - Quotes
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other`s eyes for an instant?
There is no greater force for change than people inspired to live a better life.
Gods are great. [...] But the heart is greater. For it is from our hearts they come, and to our hearts they shall return...
We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born. The potential people who could have been here in my place but who will in fact never see the light of day outnumber the sand grains of Arabia. Certainly those unborn ghosts include greater poets than Keats, scientists greater than Newton. We know this because the set of possible people allowed by our DNA so massively outnumbers the set of actual people. In the teeth of these stupefying odds it is you and I, in our ordinariness, that are here.
If you can approach the world's complexities, both its glories and its horrors, with an attitude of humble curiosity, acknowledging that however deeply you have seen, you have only scratched the surface, you will find worlds within worlds, beauties you could not heretofore imagine, and your own mundane preoccupations will shrink to proper size, not all that important in the greater scheme of things.
Tis a great confidence in a friend to tell him your faults; greater to tell him his.
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or hanging on.
I have learned that you make your own happiness, that part of going for what you want means losing something else. And when the stakes are high, the losses can be that much greater.
Men go to far greater lengths to avoid what they fear than to obtain what they desire.
Do not worry about your difficulties in Mathematics. I can assure you mine are still greater.