Thought must never submit, neither to a dogma, nor to a party, nor to a passion, nor to an interest, nor to a preconceived idea, nor to whatever it may be, save to the facts themselves, because, for thought, submission would mean ceasing to be. Henri Poincaré
When we begin to take our failures non-seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. Katherine Mansfield
It is quite possible to be a good Christian without ceasing to be a happy, merry-hearted man. Anne Brontë
To travel is the experience of ceasing to be the person you are trying to be, and becoming the person you really are. Paulo Coelho
When we can begin to take our failures seriously, it means we are ceasing to be afraid of them. It is of immense importance to learn to laugh at ourselves. Katherine Mansfield
Perhaps in the world's destruction it would be possible at last to see how it was made. Oceans, mountains. The ponderous counterspectacle of things ceasing to be. The sweeping waste, hydroptic and coldly secular. The silence. Cormac McCarthy