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“The difference between hope and despair is a different way of telling stories from the same facts.”

— Alain de Botton, Share via Whatsapp

“Your life is a print-out of your thoughts.”

— Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free, Share via Whatsapp

“The difference between what happened and what you dreamed simply depends upon the perspective of the dreamer.”

— Ben Benyamin, A Journal of Cosmic Memories: The Dimension of Trees, Share via Whatsapp

“We’re so self-important. Everybody’s going to save something now. “Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save those snails.” And the greatest arrogance of all: save the planet. Save the planet, we don’t even know how to take care of ourselves yet. I’m tired of this shit. I’m tired of f-ing Earth Day. I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white, bourgeois liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is that there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for Volvos. Besides, environmentalists don’t give a shit about the planet. Not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that some day in the future they might be personally inconvenienced. Narrow, unenlightened self-interest doesn’t impress me. The planet has been through a lot worse than us. Been through earthquakes, volcanoes, plate tectonics, continental drift, solar flares, sun spots, magnetic storms, the magnetic reversal of the poles … hundreds of thousands of years of bombardment by comets and asteroids and meteors, worldwide floods, tidal waves, worldwide fires, erosion, cosmic rays, recurring ice ages … And we think some plastic bags and some aluminum cans are going to make a difference? The planet isn’t going anywhere. WE are! We’re going away. Pack your shit, folks. We’re going away. And we won’t leave much of a trace, either. Maybe a little Styrofoam … The planet’ll be here and we’ll be long gone. Just another failed mutation. Just another closed-end biological mistake. An evolutionary cul-de-sac. The planet’ll shake us off like a bad case of fleas. The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?” Plastic… asshole.”

— George Carlin, Share via Whatsapp

“In all affairs it s a healthy thing now and then to hang a question mark on the things you have long taken for granted.”

— Bertrand Russell, Share via Whatsapp

“I m always happy when I m surrounded by water, I think I m a Mermaid or I was a mermaid. The ocean makes me feel really small and it makes me put my whole life into perspective… it humbles you and makes you feel almost like you’ve been baptized. I feel born again when I get out of the ocean.”

— Beyoncé Knowles, Share via Whatsapp

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

— Dorothea Lange, Share via Whatsapp

“Distance lends enchantment to the view.”

— Mark Twain, Share via Whatsapp

“It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn t feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.”

— Neil Armstrong, Share via Whatsapp

“The best things in life aren t things.”

— Art Buchwald, Share via Whatsapp

“loving people live in a loving world.hostile people live in a hostile world.same world.”

— Wayne W. Dyer, Share via Whatsapp

“The body is our general medium for having a world.”

— Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Phenomenology of Perception, Share via Whatsapp

“You know what, sometimes it seems to me we re living in a world that we fabricate for ourselves. We decide what s good and what isn t, we draw maps of meanings for ourselves... And then we spend our whole lives struggling with what we have invented for ourselves. The problem is that each of us has our own version of it, so people find it hard to understand each other.”

— Olga Tokarczuk, Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead, Share via Whatsapp

“It s so difficult, isn t it? To see what s going on when you re in the absolute middle of something? It s only with hindsight we can see things for what they are.”

— S.J. Watson, Before I Go to Sleep, Share via Whatsapp

“Being privileged doesn t mean that you are always wrong and people without privilege are always right. It means that there is a good chance you are missing a few very important pieces of the puzzle.”

— Ijeoma Oluo, So You Want to Talk About Race, Share via Whatsapp

“She was a wicked thing sometimes. All full of want. As if the shape of the world depended on her mood. As if she were important.”

— Patrick Rothfuss, The Slow Regard of Silent Things, Share via Whatsapp

“Help me,” said Jesper. “We need to barricade the entrance.” The man behind the desk wore gray scholar’s robes. His nostrils were flared so wide in effrontery that Jesper feared being sucked up one of them. “Young man—” Jesper pointed his gun at the scholar’s chest. “Move.” “Jesper!” his father said. “Don’t worry, Da. People point guns at each other all the time in Ketterdam. It’s basically a handshake.” “Is that true?” his father asked as the scholar grudgingly moved aside and they shoved the heavy desk in front of the door. “Absolutely,” said Wylan. “Certainly not,” said the scholar. Jesper waved them on. “Depends on the neighborhood. Let’s go.”

— Leigh Bardugo, Crooked Kingdom, Share via Whatsapp