#iona

Laugter is timeless. Imagination has no age. And dreams are forever. ↗

— Walt Disney

#age

The voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again. ↗

— John Green

#dreams #inspirational #dreams

I believe the simplest explanation is, there is no God. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization that there probably is no heaven and no afterlife either. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that, I am extremely grateful. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#inspirational #science #design

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are up to, because we may then at least have the chance to upset their designs, something that no other species has ever aspired to do. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#science #design

You can't connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking backwards. So you have to trust that the dots will somehow connect in your future. ↗

— Steve Jobs

#inspirational #life-lessons #design

What I am suggesting is that each of us turn from the negativism that permeates our society and look for the remarkable good among those with whom we associate, that we speak of one another’s virtues more than we speak of one another’s faults, that optimism replace pessimism, that our faith exceed our fears. When I was a young man and was prone to speak critically, my father would say: “Cynics do not contribute, skeptics do not create, doubters do not achieve. ↗

— Gordon B. Hinckley

#positive-thinking #positivity #faith

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience. ↗

— Sheri L. Dew

#faith #inspirational #lds #patience #sanctification

Chanel is an institution, and you have to treat an institution like a whore – and then you get something out of her ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#designer #fashion #inspirational #success #design

For me, Chanel is like music. There are certain notes and you have to make another tune with them ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #designer #fashion #inspirational #music

Thinking is computation, I claim, but that does not mean that the computer is a good metaphor for the mind. The mind is a set of modules, but the modules are not encapsulated boxes or circumscribed swatches on the surface of the brain. The organization of our mental modules comes from our genetic program, but that does not mean that there is a gene for every trait or that learning is less important than we used to think. The mind is an adaptation designed by natural selection, but that does not mean that everything we think, feel, and do is biologically adaptive. We evolved from apes, but that does not mean we have the same minds as apes. And the ultimate goal of natural selection is to propagate genes, but that does not mean that the ultimate goal of people is to propagate genes. ↗

— Steven Pinker

#evolutionary-psychology #mind #psychology #design