Quote:- The sweetest thing in life is to be alone, as you were born, as you will die, soaking in the sun, knowing that you put the cactus in the right place, that you don't need someone to come along and compliment your work, that someone who did that would, in fact, just be getting in the way.
Author:- Caroline Kepnes
Category:- best
Quote:- The sweetness of dogs (fifteen) What do you say, Percy? I am thinkingof sitting out on the sand to watchthe moon rise. Full tonight.So we goand the moon rises, so beautiful it makes me shudder, makes me think abouttime and space, makes me takemeasure of myself: one iotapondering heaven. Thus we sit,I thinking how grateful I am for the moon’s perfect beauty and also, oh! How richit is to love the world. Percy, meanwhile, leans against me and gazes up intomy face. As though I werehis perfect moon.
Swan: Poems and Prose Poems
Author:- Mary Oliver
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The symbolism of meat-eating is never neutral. To himself, the meat-eater seems to be eating life. To the vegetarian, he seems to be eating death. There is a kind of gestalt-shift between the two positions which makes it hard to change, and hard to raise questions on the matter at all without becoming embattled.
Animals and Why They Matter
Author:- Mary Midgley
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The task of evolutionary psychology is not to weigh in on human nature, a task better left to others. It is to add the satisfying kind of insight that only science can provide: to connect what we know about human nature with the rest of our knowledge of how the world works, and to explain the largest number of facts with the smallest number of assumptions.
How the Mind Works
Author:- Steven Pinker
Category:- science
Quote:- The task of the modern era was the realization and humanization of God – the transformation and dissolution of theology into anthropology.
Principles of the Philosophy of the Future
Author:- Ludwig Feuerbach
Category:- science
Quote:- The TaxiWhen I go away from youThe world beats deadLike a slackened drum.I call out for you against the jutted starsAnd shout into the ridges of the wind.Streets coming fast,One after the other,Wedge you away from me,And the lamps of the city prick my eyesSo that I can no longer see your face.Why should I leave you,To wound myself upon the sharp edges of the night?
The Complete Poetical Works of Amy Lowell
Author:- Amy Lowell
Category:- poetry
Quote:- The tears are falling freely now, and I don't care if he sees them. They're tears of relief for my nephew, worry for my grandfather and my brother, and shame for my mistake. I figure I earned them.
V for Victory
Author:- Teresa R. Funke
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The TelephoneWhen I was just as far as I could walkFrom here todayThere was an hourAll stillWhen leaning with my head against a flowerI heard you talk.Don't say I didn't for I heard you sayYou spoke from that flower on the window sill-Do you remember what it was you said ''First tell me what it was you thought you heard.''Having found the flower and driven a bee awayI leaned my headAnd holding by the stalkI listened and I thought I caught the wordWhat was itDid you call me by my name Or did you saySomeone said "Come"I heard it as I bowed.''I may have thought as much but not aloud.'Well so I came.
The Poetry of Robert Frost
Author:- Robert Frost
Category:- time
Quote:- The tendency has always been strong to believe that whatever received a name must be an entity or being, having an independent existence of its own. And if no real entity answering to the name could be found, men did not for that reason suppose that none existed, but imagined that it was something peculiarly abstruse and mysterious.
Author:- John Stuart Mill
Category:- science
Quote:- The tendency of some to exaggerate our own importance as a species in the great theater of life on Earth is a sign of hubris. A more biologically informed or enlightened, and certainly secular, point of view is that man is better off viewing himself as a flawed rather than a potentially omnipotent creature, an animal with no more of a guaranteed future than any other animal. This perspective, some argue, that we are not the be-all and end-all, might eventurally lead to better politics and to the development of a more equitable social and economic systems worldwide.
Author:- Barry Lopez
Category:- science
Quote:- The tension between what is, and what we dream of, is important. Not to discount what we have, but to hold onto that middle ground, because it's in there that the magic happens.
Author:- Susan Branch
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The term 'politics of prefiguration' has long been used to describe the idea that if you embody what you aspire to, you have already succeeded. That is to say, if your activism is already democratic, peaceful, creative, then in one small corner of the world these things have triumphed. Activism, in this model, is not only a toolbox to change things but a home in which to take up residence and live according to your beliefs, even if it's a temporary and local place...
Hope in the Dark
Author:- Rebecca Solnit
Category:- hope
Quote:- The term naysayers is how I refer to the people and social forces who tap into negative thinking and undermine your belief in your own ability to create holistic wealth.
Holistic Wealth: 32 Life Lessons to Help You Find Purpose, Prosperity, and Happiness
Author:- Keisha Blair
Category:- Life
Quote:- The testimony of the greatest humans who have ever lived is that the way to make the most of ourselves is by transcending ourselves. We must learn to move beyond self-centeredness to make room within ourselves for others. When you transcend yourself, the fact will be confirmed by the quality of your life. We will attain – even if only momentarily – a transparency and a radiance of being which results from living both within and beyond yourself. This is the promise and the excitement of self-understanding.
Author:- Don Richard Riso
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The tests we face in life's journey are not to reveal our weaknesses but to help us discover our inner strengths. We can only know how strong we are when we strive and thrive beyond the challenges we face.
Author:- Kemi Sogunle
Category:- inspiration
Quote:- The theistic philosopher has a tendency to devalue insufficient worldviews, ideologies, and quite often common sense for the greater good, and in such cases, one should not be discouraged when seen as a bad guy. If he stresses over man's perception of a righteous heart, then he has given his heart to man.
Killosophy
Author:- Criss Jami
Category:- philosophy
Quote:- The Theory of Everything begins with the Universal Energy. This Universal Energy is divided into different amounts, reshaped to become each energy type. These energy types then gather to become the strings, particles, and motions, for all objects in the universe.
The Theory of Everything: Perfectly Solved
Author:- Mark Fennell
Category:- science