The weakest living creature, by concentrating his powers on a single object, can accomplish good results while the strongest, by dispersing his effort over many chores, may fail to accomplish anything. Drops of water, by continually falling, hone their passage through the hardest of rocks but the hasty torrent rushes over it with hideous uproar and leaves no trace behind.
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Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
Reality is merely an illusion, albeit a very persistent one.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
My own idea is that these things are as piffle before the wind.
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere read more
A lot of my peer group think I'm an eccentric bisexual, like I may even have an ammonia-filled tentacle somewhere on my body. That's okay.
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.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
It would be difficult to exaggerate the degree to which we are influenced by those we influence.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
If you focus on results, you will never change. If you focus on change, you will get results.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
To measure the man, measure his heart.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
And in the end it's not the years in your life that count. It's the life in your years.
