We will never go to the Moon while we live in the ocean Anonymous Heard at the 742nd Annual Aquatic Bacterium Life Forms conference Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image! Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The idea of the future, pregnant with an infinity of possibilities, is thus more fruitful than the future itself, and this is why we find more charm in hope than in possession, in dreams than in reality.” ― Henri Bergson, Time and Free Will
"Earth is a place where language has literally become alive. Language has infested matter; it is replicating and defining and building itself. And it is in us."----Terence McKenna Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Riding on the streets of loneliness I drift on roads that take me on unknown paths I have become the wanderer again in search of an ineffable nothingness...” ― Avijeet Das Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.” ― William Barrett, The Illusion of Technique: A Search for Meaning in a Technological Civilization Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.” ― Charles Bukowski
"To pay attention, this is our endless and proper work."---Mary Oliver Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Sam’s body language looked pretty stiff. I was too far away to hear, but I imagined her conversation with Alex was something like: Sam: Awkward. Alex: Awkward, awkward. Sam (nodding): Awkward, awkward, awkward.” ― Rick Riordan, The Hammer of Thor
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.” ― Anne Lamott Edward Hopper "Automat" Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
"Our minds, as well as our bodies, have need of the out-of-doors. Our spirits, too, need simple things, elemental things, the sun and the wind and the rain, moonlight and starlight, sunrise and mist and mossy forest trails, the perfumes of dawn and the smell of fresh-turned earth and the ancient music of wind among the trees." ~ Edwin Way Teale
“The more you know yourself, the more clarity there is. Self-knowledge has no end - you don't come to an achievement, you don't come to a conclusion. It is an endless river.”― Jiddu Krishnamurti Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Worlds were never meant to be prisons, locked and suffocating and safe. Worlds were supposed to be great rambling houses with all the windows thrown open and the wind and summer rain rushing through them, with magic passages in their closets and secret treasure chests in their attics.” ― Alix E. Harrow, The Ten Thousand Doors of January Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“There will come a time when acceptance will come to meet you. Your shoulders will soften. The sky will stretch out before you and the night will feel warm and comforting. Once you are free of resentful thoughts you will surely find peace. Your soul will be lifted. Wherever you are, you will feel free.” ― Susan Bocinec Terry, Moods and Musings Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance but live right in it, under its roof.” ― Barbara Kingsolver Andrew Wyeth, “Distant Thunder” Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“I'm dark matter. The universe inside of me is full of something, and science can't even shine a light on it. I feel like I'm mostly made of mysteries.” ― Maria Dahvana Headley, Magonia Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Happiness is in the quiet, ordinary things. A table, a chair, a book with a paper-knife stuck between the pages. And the petal falling from the rose, and the light flickering as we sit silent.” ― Virginia Woolf, The Waves Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“And I, infinitesimal being, drunk with the great starry void, likeness, image of mystery, I felt myself a pure part of the abyss, I wheeled with the stars, my heart broke loose on the wind.” ― Pablo Neruda, 100 Love Sonnets Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.” ― Aldous Huxley
“Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves – slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future; live the actual moment. Only this moment is life.” ~Thich Nhat Hanh Please Register or Log in to view the hidden image!
“Adventures are only interesting once you've lived to see the end of them. Before that, they are nothing but fear, and being too cold or too hot or too wet or too hungry, and getting hurt.” ― Holly Lisle, The Silver Door
