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«God put me on this earth to accomplish a certain number of things. Right now I am so far behind that I will never die.»
«One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.»
«If something anticipated arrives too late it finds us numb, wrung out from waiting, and we feel - nothing at all. The best things arrive on time.»
«Self-acceptance comes from meeting life's challenges vigorously. Don't numb yourself to your trials and difficulties, nor build mental walls to exclude pain from your life. You will find peace not by trying to escape your problems, but by confronting them courageously. You will find peace not in denial, but in victory.»
«To me, there are three things we all should do every day. We should do this every day of our lives. Number one is laugh. You should laugh every day. Number two is think. You should spend some time in thought. And number three is, you should have your emotions moved to tears, could be happiness or joy. But think about it. If you laugh, you think, and you cry, that's a full day. That's a heck of a day. You do that seven days a week, you're going to have something special.»
«A lecture is an occasion when you numb one end to benefit the other»
Author: John Gould | Keywords: lecture, numb, numbed, numbing, numbs
«Academic chairs are many, but wise and noble teachers are few; lecture-rooms are numerous and large, but the number of young people who genuinely thirst after truth and justice is small.»
«I have little patience with scientists who take a board of wood, look for its thinnest part, and drill a great number of holes where drilling is easy.»
«A man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.»
«It is with books as with men: a very small number play a great part, the rest are lost in the multitude»

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