We shall not cease from exploration. And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.
T. S. Eliot, Little Gidding
Quotes
Love is the condition…
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
Selfishness is not living…
Selfishness is not living as one wishes to live, it is asking others to live as one wishes to live.
Oscar Wilde
That is my principal objection…
That is my principal objection to life, I think: It’s too easy, when alive, to make perfectly horrible mistakes.
Kurt Vonnegut (Deadeye Dick)
We must be careful…
We must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Kurt Vonnegut (Mother Night)
Many people need desperately…
Many people need desperately to receive this message: ‘I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.’
Kurt Vonnegut (Timequake)
I urge you to please notice…
I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think at some point, ‘If this isn’t nice, I don’t know what is.’
Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without A Country)
We must embrace pain…
We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
Kenji Miyazawa
We don’t see things…
We don’t see things the way they are; we see them the way we are.
Anais Nin
The deep pain that…
The deep pain that is felt at the death of every friendly soul arises from the feeling that there is in every individual something which is inexpressible, peculiar to him alone, and is, therefore, absolutely and irretrievably lost.
Arthur Schopenhauer
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