#ali

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational. ↗

— Thomas M. Disch

#life #people #rationality #life

He decided in favor of life out of sheer spite and malice. ↗

— Patrick Süskind

#life #malice #spite #life

Whoever prefers the material comforts of life over intellectual wealth is like the owner of a palace who moves into the servants’ quarters and leaves the sumptuous rooms empty. ↗

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

#intelligence #materialism #intelligence

Mercy is stronger than your sword. ↗

— P.C. Cast

#life #mercy #realize #strength #sword

Every person, all the events of your life are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you. ↗

— Richard Bach in "Illusions"

#life

I've never really understood why people sleep. Wasting a third of your life and becoming vulnerable for almost 8 hours every night. Doesn't seem very appealing to me. ↗

— Banksy

#banksy #hours #life #night #people

We open the halves of a miracle, and a clotting of acids brims into the starry divisions: creation's original juices, irreducible, changeless, alive: so the freshness lives on ↗

— Pablo Neruda

#life #miracle #life

‎And when this intoxication has worn away... when every desire is fulfilled and every language learned- when there are no more distant cities to explore; no classics to be studied; not another coin to be stuffed in to one's coffers- what then? One can have all the comforts of the world, but what use are they if there is no comfort in them? ↗

— Seth Grahame-Smith

#life #life

Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste comes from molecules that match a specific area on your tongue. Hey, if our eyes could access the infrared part of the light spectrum, the sky would be green and trees would be red. Some animals see in completely different ways, so who knows what colors look like to them. Nothing is really how we perceive it. ↗

— Wendy Mass

#reality #life

Reality hasn't really sunk in yet, I knew that. I didn't want to know what life was going to feel like when it finally did. ↗

— Keary Taylor

#realistic #reality #life