#gh

And I asked myself about the present: how wide it was, how deep it was, how much was mine to keep. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#present

Insight is not a lightbulb that goes off inside our heads. It is a flickering candle that can easily be snuffed out. ↗

— Malcolm Gladwell

#insight

At that moment, he was meaner and madder than he’d ever been, but mainly at himself, which is the worst kind of mean and mad to be, because the only thing to do about it is to take it out on someone else. ↗

— Victoria Forester

#insight

If you believe something will make the world better, then it's always worth a try, even if you fail. ↗

— Sierra St. James

#insight

Bathroom, maybe? Which is where I need to go." "Ooh, me, too," Eve said. The boys rolled their eyes, like they'd planned it. "What? It's what girls do. Get over it. ↗

— Rachel Caine

#gender-stereotypes #morganville-vampires #ghost

Enlightenment is not a goal to be attained, it is a state-of-being to be regained. ↗

— Kim Chestney

#heaven #inner-peace #samhadi #truth #inner-peace

You only lose what you cling to. ↗

— Gautama Buddha

#insightful #insight

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right! ↗

— Larry Niven

#extinction #insightful #space-exploration #insight

Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity. ↗

— Stephen Fry

#speech #stephen-fry #insight

Break the glass, please, and free us from all these damned rules, from needing to find an explanation for everything, from doing only what others approve of. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#insight