The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Issac Asimov
The saddest aspect of life right now is that science gathers knowledge faster than society gathers wisdom.
Issac Asimov
We only become what we are by the radical and deep-seated refusal of that which others have made of us.
Jean-Paul Sartre
It is essential to our struggle for self-determination that we speak of love. For love is the necessary foundation enabling us to survive the wars, the hardships, the sickness, and the dying with our spirits intact. It is love that allows us to survive whole.
bell hooks
It is only from the light which streams constantly from heaven that a tree can derive the energy to strike its roots deep into the soil. The tree is in fact rooted in the sky.
Simone Weil
You realize the sun doesn't go down. It's just an illusion caused by the world spinning round.
The Flaming Lips
Watch carefully the magic that occurs when you give a person enough comfort to just be themselves.
Atticus
If you simply can't understand why someone is grieving so much, for so long, then consider yourself fortunate that you do not understand.
Joanne Caccoatore
Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I am changing myself.
Rumi
The past is a place of reference, not a place of residence; the past is a place of learning, not a place of living.
Roy T. Bennett, The Light in the Heart
There is so much inherent goodness in people that if they aren't inhibited by traumas and and are given half a chance, it shines through.
Leonard Bernstein
Being spiritual has nothing to do with what you believe and everything to do with your state of consciousness.
Eckhart Tolle
I think there is pressure on people to turn every negative into a positive but we should be allowed to say, "I went through something really strange and awful, and it has altered me forever."
Marian Keyes
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