“The fact that we live at the bottom of a deep gravity well, on the surface of a gas covered planet going around a nuclear fireball 90 million miles away and think this to be normal is obviously some indication of how skewed our perspective tends to be.”
― Douglas Adams
“There are no facts, only interpretations.”
― Friedrich Nietzsche
“If you look the right way, you can see that the whole world is a garden.”
― Frances Hodgson Burnett
“One person’s craziness is another person’s reality.”
― Tim Burton
“We can complain because rose bushes have thorns, or rejoice because thorns have roses.”
― Alphonse Karr
“The world is a tragedy to those who feel, but a comedy to those who think.”
― Horace Walpole
“The cosmos is within us. We are made of star-stuff. We are a way for the universe to know itself.”
― Carl Sagan
“Some people see the glass half full. Others see it half empty.
I see a glass that’s twice as big as it needs to be.”
― George Carlin
“Most misunderstandings in the world could be avoided if people would simply take the time to ask, “What else could this mean?”
― Shannon L. Alder
“If it’s true that our species is alone in the universe, then I’d have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.”
― George Carlin
“A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.”
― Robertson Davies
“Make it dark, make it grim, make it tough, but then, for the love of God, tell a joke.”
― Joss Whedon
“I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness for it shows me the stars.”
― Og Mandino
“One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the belief that one’s work is terribly important.”
― Bertrand Russell
“In all affairs it’s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”
― Bertrand Russell
“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”
― George Eliot
“No two persons ever read the same book.”
― Edmund Wilson
“Nothing is really work unless you would rather be doing something else.”
― J.M. Barrie
“What people in the world think of you is really none of your business.”
― Martha Graham
“I believe that there is an equality to all humanity. We all suck.”
― Bill Hicks
“Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time.”
― Steven Wright
“There’s a fine line between support and stalking and let’s all stay on the right side of that.”
― Joss Whedon
“There is a huge amount of freedom that comes to you when you take nothing personally.”
― Don Miguel Ruiz
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
― George Bernard Shaw
“We often need to lose sight of our priorities in order to see them.”
― John Irving
“If someone does not want me it is not the end of the world. But if I do not want me, the world is nothing but endings.”
― Nayyirah Waheed
“The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close up.”
― Chuck Palahniuk
“A poet should be so crafty with words that he is envied even for his pains.”
― Criss Jami
“Is someone different at age 18 or 60? I believe one stays the same.”
― Hayao Miyazaki
“Fairy Tales always have a happy ending.’ That depends… on whether you are Rumpelstiltskin or the Queen.”
― Jane Yolen
Thanks for reading.
