Treat all disasters as if they were trivialities but never treat a triviality as if it were a disaster.
—Quentin Crisp
To everyone's surprise, wildlife abounds in the deserted environs of the doomed [Chernobyl] nuclear plant. Elk, wild pigs, wolves, and rabbits all seem to be flourishing. These animals have somehow learned to cope with the high levels of radiation. Who knows, perhaps there are mutations: A pig that can climb. A rabbit with a prehensile tail. An elk with a unicorn's horn. Cells are quick-change artists. Life loves life. Humans may end, but the world won't.
—Sybil Smith
Politics is not the art of the possible. It consists in choosing between the disastrous and the unpalatable.
—John Kenneth Galbraith
Everything was okay. Maybe not perfect, but life wasn't meant to be perfect. It was messy and sometimes it was a disaster, but there was beauty in the messiness and there could be peace in the disaster.
—Jennifer L. Armentrout in Wait for You
I don't think you understand how easy it is to make a mistake that will cost you forever.
—Sarah Dessen in Someone Like You
Even if one tree falls down it wouldn't affect the entire forest.
—Chen Shui-bian
Every decision is liberating even if it leads to disaster.
—Elias Canetti