None of the people have any real interest in a science, who only begin to be enthusiastic about it when they themselves have made discoveries in it. Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits
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Quote:- None of this had been fated; none of it foretold. There had been no prophecies of a demon king or a dragon queen, a one-eyed Tailor, Heartrender twins. They were just the people who had shown up and managed to survive.But maybe that was the trick of it: to survive, to dare to stay alive, to forge your own hope when all hope had run out.
Rule of Wolves
Author:- Leigh Bardugo
Category:- hope
Quote:- None of us has a right to dictate how another human being finds happiness. Our time on this planet is short and all types of commitment are valid when they're built on love.
Hot 4
Author:- Stephanie Brother
Category:- Love
Quote:- None of your knowledge, your reading, your connections will be of any use here: two legs suffice, and big eyes to see with. Walk alone, across mountains or through forests. You are nobody to the hills or the thick boughs heavy with greenery. You are no longer a role, or a status, not even an individual, but a body, a body that feels sharp stones on the paths, the caress of long grass and the freshness of the wind. When you walk, the world has neither present nor future: nothing but the cycle of mornings and evenings. Always the same thing to do all day: walk. But the walker who marvels while walking (the blue of the rocks in a July evening light, the silvery green of olive leaves at noon, the violet morning hills) has no past, no plans, no experience. He has within him the eternal child. While walking I am but a simple gaze.
A Philosophy of Walking
Author:- Frédéric Gros
Category:- philosophy,poetry
Quote:- Nonetheless, its future is known, much as one might wish to ignore it: the photo will live briefly in somebody's memory, and then become dormant once again—that is, in no one's active memory—and after that it will hibernate in some electronic corner of the world for a long time before disappearing for good. In the other photo, which I took so as to capture the entire building from the ground up, you can make out, on the eave or cornice above the doorframe, several patches of peeling paint.
My Two Worlds
Author:- Sergio Chejfec
Category:- time
Quote:- Nonlinearity means that the act of playing the game has a way of changing the rules. [...] Analyzing the behavior of a nonlinear equation like the Navier-Stokes equation is like walking through a maze whose walls rearrange themselves with each step you take.
Chaos: Making a New Science
Author:- James Gleick
Category:- science
Quote:- Nor dread nor hope attendA dying animal;A man awaits his endDreading and hoping all.
Author:- William Butler Yeats
Category:- hope
Quote:- Nor is there wanting in the pressSome spirit to stand simply forth,Heroic in it nakedness,Against the uttermost of earth.The tale of earth's unhonored thingsSounds nobler there than 'neath the sun;And the mind whirls and the heart sings,And a shout greets the daring one.
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- Life,best
Quote:- Normal is over rated, and so is spelling.You want perfection? Go out and buy a spell check, but know this: Spellcheck won't keep you warm at night or love you unconditionaly. I will stick to being abnormal and a bad speller. Makes life more interesting. After all, what fun is there in being normal or perfect?
Author:- Cristina Marrero
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- Norse mythology hints at Odinic cults, with Odin being worshipped through a combination of ecstatic and seemingly shamanistic rituals. From the eddic poem The Sayings of the High One ( Hávamál ), he is said to have hanged himself in a sacrificial ritual on a tree. Barely surviving this ordeal, Odin gains arcane knowledge, including the use of runes, the ancient Scandinavian alphabet sometimes used for magical purposes. In the poem, Odin chants : I know that I hungon the wind-swept treeall nine nightswith spear was I woundedand given to Odin,myself to me,on that tree which no one knowsfrom which roots it grows.Bread I was not given, no drink from the horn,downwards I glared;up I pulled the runes,screaming I took them,from there I fell back again.- excerpt from Jesse L. Byock's Introduction and Notes, of Sturluson's Prose Edda.
The Prose Edda
Author:- Snorri Sturluson
Category:- knowledge
Quote:- North Carolina has a monument to [Peter Francisco], and no one knows that. That's the kind of stuff that drives me.
Hercules of the Revolution: A Novel Based on the Life of Peter Francisco
Author:- Travis Scott Bowman
Category:- motivational
Quote:- Nostalgia is a necessary thing, I believe, and a way for all of us to find peace in that which we have accomplished, or even failed to accomplish. At the same time, if nostalgia precipitates actions to return to that fabled, rosy-painted time, particularly in one who believes his life to be a failure, then it is an empty thing, doomed to produce nothing but frustration and an even greater sense of failure.
Streams of Silver
Author:- R.A. Salvatore
Category:- time
Quote:- Nostalgia is possibly the greatest of the lies that we all tell ourselves. It is the glossing of the past to fit the sensibilities of the present. For some, it brings a measure of comfort, a sense of self and of source, but others I fear take these altered memories too far, and because of that paralyze themselves to the realities about them.How many people wonder for that past, simpler and better world, I wonder? Without ever recognizing that truth that perhaps it was they who were simpler and better, and not the world about them.
Streams of Silver
Author:- R.A. Salvatore
Category:- time
Quote:- Not a day goes by that did not have a great opportunity packaged in it somewhere. And the question is, did the opportunity go by with the day?
Author:- Craig D. Lounsbrough
Category:- hope
Quote:- Not a fan of the name dark energy which implies concealed energy for the simple reason that these words elude rather than conclude that the purpose of self - the meaning of life - is love. Perhaps the scientific community could be open to change one's name from dark energy to rainbow energy? Regardless. Not here to complain. Happy with the companionship either way.
Author:- Wald Wassermann
Category:- science
Quote:- Not a single one of the cells that compose you knows who you are, or cares.
Sweet Dreams: Philosophical Obstacles to a Science of Consciousness
Author:- Daniel C. Dennett
Category:- science
Quote:- Not all boats which sail into darkness never find the sun again, or the hand of another child; if life teaches anything at all, it teaches that there are so many happy endings that man who believes there is no God needs his rationality called into serious question.
It
Author:- Stephen King
Category:- hope
Quote:- Not all complex problems have easy solutions; so says science (so warns science.)
House of Leaves
Author:- Mark Z. Danielewski
Category:- science