Our salvation is in striving to achieve what we know we'll never achieve. —Ryszard Kapuściński More about this quote Tags: salvation Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
You can't leave footprints in the sands of time if you're sitting on your butt — and who wants to leave butt prints in the sands of time? —Bob Moawad More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
To transform the world, we must begin with ourselves; and what is important in beginning with ourselves is the intention. The intention must be to understand ourselves, and not to leave it to others to transform themselves . . . This is our responsibility, yours and mine; because, however small may be the world we live in, . . . if we can bring about a radically different point of view in our daily existence, then perhaps we shall affect the world at large. —Jiddu Krishnamurti More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I have striven not to laugh at human actions, not to weep at them, nor to hate them, but to understand them. —Baruch Spinoza More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Why the toil, yearning, honesty, aesthetics, exaltation, love, hate, deceit, brilliance, hubris, humility, shame, and stupidity that collectively define our species? —E.O. Wilson More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
I once wanted to save the world. Now I just want to leave the room with some dignity. —Lotus Weinstock More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Life . . . punishes those who try to compartmentalize it. Thus if, for any reason whatsoever, moral standards are conspicuously and unprecedentedly breached in one area of society, such as the political, it will follow as the night the day that those standards will start collapsing all down the line — in sports, entertainment, education, the armed forces, business, and government. —Margaret Halsey More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The more immoral we become in big ways, the more puritanical we become in little ways. —Florence King More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Climate change — I had that question, all you climate-change people. We just — you know, again, we knew that the economy was still the main thing. —Candy Crowley, on omitting a question about global warming during the second presidential debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on? —Henry David Thoreau More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The Earth was small, light blue, and so touchingly alone, our home that must be defended like a holy relic. The Earth was absolutely round. I believe I never knew what the word round meant until I saw Earth from space. —Russian cosmonaut Alexey Leonov More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
The distinction between children and adults, while probably useful for some purposes, is at bottom a specious one, I feel. There are only individual egos, crazy for love. —Donald Barthelme More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Am I the person who used to wake in the middle of the night and laugh with the joy of living? Who worried about the existence of God, and danced with young ladies till long after daybreak? Who sang "Auld Lang Syne" and howled with sentiment, and more than once gazed at the full moon through a blur of great, romantic tears? —Logan Pearsall Smith More about this quote Tags: God joy tears moon dancing Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
As he drove the little Ford safely to its garage, he remembered for the first time in years when he was young and brash, a student in New York, and the shriek and horror and unholy smother of the subway had its original meaning for him as the lilt and expectation of love. —Eudora Welty More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email
Teenagers have no monopoly on [adolescent behavior], except insofar as we are in fact a teenage society — a society that likes to play "chicken" not with fast cars, but with ballistic missiles. —Thomas Merton More about this quote Permalink for this quote facebook twitter tumblr email