Hans Christian Andersen Quotes

“Grant not my prayers, when they are contrary to Thy will, which at all times must be the best. Oh, hear them not;”

“The longeswt love, is the love that cant be!”

“You know you're in love when you don't want to fall asleep because reality is finally better than your dreams.”

“Historically, discoveries of pure science are slow to reach the mainstream compared with those of the applied sciences, which noisily announce themselves with new medicines and gadgets. The Hubble has proved an exception, remaking, in a single generation, the popular conception of the universe. It has accomplished this primarily through the aesthetic force of its discoveries, which distill the difficult abstractions of astrophysics into singular expressions of color and light, vindicating Keats’s famous couplet: “Beauty is truth, truth beauty.” Though philosophy has hardly registered it, the Hubble has given us nothing less than an ontological awakening, a forceful reckoning with what is. The telescope compels the mind to contemplate space and time on a scale just shy of the infinite.”

“Faith Never does seem Feasible”

“Min ene sko knirker af mangel på stjerneskud”

“If we are following Jesus--we will be fishers of men.If we are not fishers of men--we are not following Jesus”

“Life itself is the most wonderful fairy tale.”

“Travelling expands the mind rarely.”

“Just living is not enough... one must have sunshine, freedom, and a little flower.”