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... 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.
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.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
The greater part of our happiness or misery depends on our dispositions and not our circumstances. -Martha Washington.
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.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
Simple people ... are very quick to see the live facts which are going on about them.
He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
He gives us the very quintessence of perception.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Only in quiet waters things mirror themselves undistorted. Only in a quiet mind is adequate perception of the world.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
Penetration seems a kind of inspiration; it gives me an idea of prophecy.
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.
