#iona

She didn't say it, I only thought she said it. So really it was my thought, my words, and not hers. How could I confuse "I love you" with "May I take your order? ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cashier #confusion #daydreaming #delusional #fantasy

The thing that makes you exceptional, if you are at all, is inevitably that which must also make you lonely. ↗

— Lorraine Hansberry

#exceptional #inevitably #lonely #make #makes

A new consciousness is developing which sees the earth as a single organism and recognizes that an organism at war with itself is doomed. We are one planet. One of the great revelations of the age of space exploration is the image of the earth finite and lonely, somehow vulnerable, bearing the entire human species through the oceans of space and time. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#inspirational #science #age

My major in college was Chinese Studies. It was very intentional. ↗

— Mira Sorvino

#college #intentional #major #studies #very

The secret of big and revolutionary actions also consists in discovering the tiny step that is simultaneously a strategic step, insofar as it entails additional steps in the direction of a better reality. ↗

— Gustav Heinemann

#additional #also #better #big #consists

Your old road is rapidly aging. Please get out of the new one If you can't lend your hand, For the times they are a-changin'. ↗

— Bob Dylan

#age

You want to change things, Joe, but you can’t. Not like this. You can’t save what’s been left behind. Only what’s in front of you. ↗

— Maria Rachel Hooley

#change

Guilt is a manifestation of condemnation or aversion towards oneself, which does not understand the changing transformative quality of mind. 'Seeking the Heart of Wisdom ↗

— Joseph Goldstein

#inspirational #change

But nothing will ever change if we keep pretend. People 'live out loud', as you say, not merely for themselves but for a more honest future. ↗

— Jax Garren

#beauty

We need to stop spending money on those weapons systems that do not advance national security. ↗

— Lawrence Korb

#money #national #national security #need #security