“Love blurs your vision; but after it recedes, you can see more clearly than ever. It’s like the tide going out, revealing whatever’s been thrown away and sunk: broken bottles, old gloves, rusting pop cans, nibbled fishbodies, bones. This is the kind of thing you see if you sit in the darkness with open eyes, not knowing the future. The ruin you’ve made.”
― Margaret Atwood
“Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.”
― Arthur C. Clarke
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
― Gerry Spence
“The measure of intelligence is the ability to change.”
― Albert Einstein
“War is what happens when language fails.”
― Margaret Atwood
“It would be possible to describe everything scientifically, but it would make no sense; it would be without meaning, as if you described a Beethoven symphony as a variation of wave pressure.”
― Albert Einstein
“When you’re accustomed to privilege, equality feels like oppression.”
– Unknown
“Given enough time, hydrogen starts to wonder where it came from, and where it is going.”
– Unknown
“Optimism. It’s not about believing that everything happens for the best; it’s about making the best of the things that happen”
– Action for happiness
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used to the unspeakable violence and the vulgar disparity of life around you. To seek joy in the saddest places. To pursue beauty to its lair. To never simplify what is complicated or complicate what is simple. To respect strength, never power. Above all, to watch. To try and understand. To never look away. And never, never, to forget.”
– Arundhati Roy
“To travel hopefully is better than to arrive.”
– Sir James Jeans
“Against criticism a man can neither protest nor defend himself; he must act in spite of it, and then it will gradually yield to him.”
– Goethe
“True contentment depends not upon what we have; a tub was large enough for Diogenes, but a world was too little for Alexander.”
– Charles Caleb Colton
“Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed, citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has.”
― Margaret Mead
“When I despair, I remember that all through history the way of truth and love have always won. There have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they can seem invincible, but in the end, they always fall. Think of it – always.”
– Mahatma Gandhi