“Yes to everything.”
The eyes see things that are, the mind sees things that are, that were and that that could be.
When the ground starts moving beneath their feet, they reach for answers that seem solid, even if they are simplistic.
...>>I think the real political divide increasingly is not between left and right, but between those who are intrigued by what is happening and wish to shape it, and those who fear the future, and want to stop it.
“Someday after mastering winds, waves, tides and gravity, we shall harness the energies of love. And then, for the second time in the history of the world, man will discover fire.”
Life’s simple. You make choices and you don’t look back.
Chasing success is like trying to squeeze a handful of water. The tighter you squeeze, the less water you get. When you chase it, your life becomes the chase, and you become a victim of always wanting more.
“Maybe doing nothing’s better than doing this.”
most of the great triumphs and tragedies of history are caused, not by people being fundamentally good or fundamentally bad, but by people being fundamentally people.
...>>“Wait a minute, Juanita. ...is it a virus, a drug, or a religion?”
Juanita shrugs. “What’s the difference?”
The world is a book and those who do not travel read only a page.
Every moment is another chance to turn it all around.
“I think we miss that touch so much, that we crash into each other, just so we can feel something.”
‘‘The Stone Age didn’t end for lack of stone, and the oil age will end long before the world runs out of oil.’‘
...>>“Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world.”
...>>“Idleness … does not consist in doing nothing, but in doing a great deal not recognized in the dogmatic formularies of the ruling class.”
..the alarm clock. Heavens! What evil genius brought together those two enemies of the idle—clocks and alarms—into one unit?
...>>"People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel"
“Platonic friendship: the interval between the introduction and the first kiss.”
Tell me who your friends are, and I’ll tell you who you are.
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