"Everything is better against the backdrop of a gloomy autumn day. Food is better. Coffee is better. TV is better. Music is better. Traveling is better. Everything acquires an almost literary meaningfulness and a nostalgic longing for days gone by. Everything is an excuse to contemplate and reflect on the human condition. There is a depth and interiority in everything that is experienced."---MR
“We are all future butterflies who think, wrongly, that we are just slugs. And we are evolving, whether we admit it or not, into something else. Something with wings.”
― Jeffrey J. Kripal, Mutants and Mystics: Science Fiction, Superhero Comics, and the Paranormal
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“But, as Einstein once said, “For we convinced physicists, the distinction between past, present, and future is only an illusion, however persistent.”
― Brian Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality
''Life life to the fullest; it has an expiration date.'' - Unknown
"We were made and set here to give voice to our astonishments.”---Annie Dillard
“For those who find it remarkable that we live in a universe of Something, just wait. Nothingness is heading on a collision course right toward us.”
― Christopher Hitchens
“That's the thing about flying: You could talk to someone for hours and never even know his name, share your deepest secrets and then never see them again.”
― Jennifer E. Smith, The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
“By its nature, the metropolis provides what otherwise could be given only by traveling; namely, the strange.”
― Jane Jacobs, The Death and Life of Great American Cities
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“Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another.”
― Terry Tempest Williams, Pieces of White Shell
“I am no wise man. Every day shows me how little I know about life, and how wrong I can be. But there are things I know to be true. I know I will die. And I know that the only sane response to such a horror is to love.”
― Nando Parrado, Miracle in the Andes