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After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, read more
After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn’t it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked—as I am surprisingly often—why I bother to get up in the mornings.
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from read more
Miracles seem to rest, not so much upon faces or voices or healing power coming suddenly near to us from far off, but upon our perceptions being made finer so that for a moment our eyes can see and our ears can hear that which is about us always. -Willa Cather.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.
You can complain because roses have thorns, or you can rejoice because thorns have roses. -Ziggy.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
Love is not blind; it simply enables one to see things others fail to see.
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also read more
It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to perceive.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
As men of inward light are wont
To turn their optics in upon't.
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.
Preconcieved notions are the locks on the door to wisdom. -Merry Browne.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
The voyage of discovery is not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. -Marcel Proust.
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to read more
... perhaps one has to be very old before one learns how to be amused rather than shocked. Thanks to Maria Marquis -Pearl S. Buck.
