#insightful

A certain man once lost a diamond cuff-link in the wide blue sea, and twenty years later, on the exact day, a Friday apparently, he was eating a large fish - but there was no diamond inside. That’s what I like about coincidence. ↗

— Vladimir Nabokov

#humor #insightful #humor

Those who sees your mistake as a big thing, give thanks to them; cuz' they'll make you a better person. But for those who let you forget such mistakes, be thankful; cuz' they are your true friends. ↗

— Kent Ian N.Cny

#friends #frienship #insight #insightful #inspirational

I was drowning that times, but when I saw those eyes of yours, my body learned how to swim. ↗

— kent Ian N. Cny

#insightful #inspiration #love #inspirational

The technological man is limited as his tools. The man without technologies is limitless. ↗

— Bilal Hussain

#inspirational #philosophy #science #technology #thought-provoking

It paid barely a living wage, but he stayed with it—gradually and in the end gratefully arriving at the point in life when you understand there are no great changes ahead. ↗

— Ann Packer

#fathers-and-daughters #insightful #age

I was a victim of a series of accidents, as are we all. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#insight

People lose sight of their dreams, only to hold tight their fears. ↗

— Gustave Geyer

#orignal #dreams

Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#insightful #space-exploration #the-future #imagination

Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things—though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the human species got, the more isolated they seemed to become, at the same time. It was alarming, how humans could spend entire lifetimes engaged in all kinds of activities, without getting any closer to knowing who they really were, inside. ↗

— Jess C. Scott

#cyberpunk #elven-charm #humankind #insightful #life

There is something cathartic about what has happened to me during this stay in hospital. I’ve heard others say that coming face to face with your own mortality can have this effect. You look with harsh, savage eyes at the life you are living and resolve to make the best of the time you have left, if you can be allowed the luxury of a few extra years to fulfill your plans. Around me, I see an urgency creep into the lives of friends once they have an AIDS diagnosis: they rush out and try to complete as many life projects as they can, before their health deteriorates. ↗

— David Menadue

#life