So get the big truth first. If you get the big truth, the small truths will accumulate around it. Let them be magnetized to it, drawn to it and then cling to it.
-Ray Bradbury
Action is hope. A the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned. I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad - you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.
- Ray Bradbury
When he came to me, he touched me on the brow, and on the nose, and on the chin, and he said to me in a whisper, "Live forever." And I decided to.
- Ray Bradbury
When the student is ready, the teacher appears.
- Buddhist saying
Most decisions don't require extensive research.
They know from the past life simply doesn't last, so they live for today for tomorrow they may not be able to walk in the skies.
- Bonobo
It's the things that make you feel that hold the most power.
...Waiting for the moment when by pinching myself I prove that a thought is like a touch.
- Jack Kerouac
I have always believed that hope is that stubborn thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us so long as we have the courage to keep reaching, to keep working, to keep fighting.
- Barack Obama
Love is about bottomless empathy, born out of the heart's revelation that another person is every bit as real as you are. And this is why love, as I understand it, is always specific.... The big risk here, of course, is rejection... to expose your whole self, not just the likable surface, and to have it rejected, can be catastrophically painful... And yet pain hurts but it doesn't kill. When you consider the alternative - an anesthetized dream of self-sufficiency, abetted by technology - pain emerges as the natural product and natural indication of being alive in a resistant world. To go through life painlessly is to have not lived.
- Jonathan Franzen
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