#iv

We ourselves are made of Stardust. ↗

— Carl Sagam

#science #stardust #stars #universe #science

Living is abnormal. ↗

— Eugene Ionesco

#living

All this long human story, most passionate and tragic in the living, was but an unimportant, a seemingly barren and negligible effort, lasting only for a few moments in the life of the galaxy. When it was over, the host of the planetary systems still lived on, with here and there a casualty, and here and there among the stars a new planetary birth, and here and there a fresh disaster. ↗

— Olaf Stapledon

#impermanence #stars #universe #vanity #life

None but ourselves will put the concrete on our road to success. ↗

— T.A

#life #living #life

All living things contain a measure of madness that moves them in a strange, sometimes inexplicable ways. ↗

— Yann Martel

#living-things #madness #life

I must say a word about fear. It is life's only true opponent. ↗

— Yann Martel

#life-and-living #life

If there was a reason why he preferred the liberal tendency to the conservative one (also held to by many of his circle), it was not because he found the liberal tendency more sensible, but it more closely suited his manner of life. ↗

— Leo Tolstoy

#morality #motivation #life

The life thatI touch for good or ill will touch another life, and that in turn another, until who knows where the trembling stops or in what far place my touch will be felt. ↗

— Frederick Buechner

#god #religion #inspirational

Human beings are not made to take shortcuts,... You're to live your life, moment by moment. Your life isn't here to entertain you - it's to be lived. ↗

— David Rotenberg

#life

From the outside looking in, everything looked completely ordinary. The problem was being on the inside, looking out. ↗

— Belle Malory

#life #troubles #worries #life