#mo

Realize deeply that the present moment is all you have. Make the NOW the primary focus of your life. ↗

— Eckhart Tolle

#live-in-the-moment #realization #life

Life is not a PG feel-good movie. Real life often ends badly. Literature tries to document this reality, while showing us it is still possible for us to endure nobly. ↗

— Matthew Quick

#feelings-of-weakness #happiness #life #literature #movie

Furthermore, neither of our research groups set out in search of RNA catalysis. ↗

— Sidney Altman

#furthermore #groups #neither #our #out

You know what I think?" she says. "That people's memories are maybe the fuel they burn to stay alive. Whether those memories have any actual importance or not, it doesn't matter as far as the maintenance of life is concerned. They're all just fuel. Advertising fillers in the newspaper, philosophy books, dirty pictures in a magazine, a bundle of ten-thousand-yen bills: when you feed 'em to the fire, they're all just paper. The fire isn't thinking 'Oh, this is Kant,' or 'Oh, this is the Yomiuri evening edition,' or 'Nice tits,' while it burns. To the fire, they're nothing but scraps of paper. It's the exact same thing. Important memories, not-so-important memories, totally useless memories: there's no distinction--they're all just fuel. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#memory #life

I suppose that in no educational institution can one become an educated person. ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#satire #education

You must know that there is nothing higher and stronger and more wholesome and good for life in the future than some good memory, especially a memory of childhood, of home. People talk to you a great deal about your education, but some good, sacred memory, preserved from childhood, is perhaps the best education. ↗

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#memory #education

Just remember that the things you put into your head are there forever, he said. You might want to think about that. You forget some things, dont you? Yes. You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#memory #life

Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded yellow sun. Orbiting this at a distance of roughly ninety-two million miles is an utterly insignificant little blue green planet whose ape-descended life forms are so amazingly primitive that they still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea. ↗

— Douglas Adams

#life

There is more stupidity than hydrogen in the universe, and it has a longer shelf life. ↗

— Frank Zappa

#life #longer #more #shelf #shelf life

Too many people spend money they earned..to buy things they don't want..to impress people that they don't like. ↗

— Will Rogers

#money #people #pride #will-rogers #life