#own

You can't kick me down, I'm already on the ground. No, you can't, but you couldn't catch me anyhow.Blue skies, but the sun isn't comming out, no. Today, it is like I'm under a heavy cloud." Avril Lavigne (Runaway) ↗

— Avril Lavigne

#down #feelings #music #music

Even in a minute instance, it is best to look first to the main tendencies of Nature. A particular flower may not be dead in early winter, but the flowers are dying; a particular pebble may never be wetted with the tide, but the tide is coming in. To the scientific eye all human history is a series of collective movements, destructions or migrations, like the massacre of flies in winter or the return of birds in spring. ↗

— G.K. Chesterton

#nature

The laws of physics is the canvas God laid down on which to paint his masterpiece ↗

— Dan Brown

#dan-brown #physics #religion #religion

All the knowledge I possess everyone else can acquire, but my heart is all my own. ↗

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

#else #everyone #heart #i #knowledge

They didn't understand what they were doing. I'm afraid that will be on the tombstone of the human race. ↗

— Michael Crichton

#humanity #science #understanding #science

It is unwise to be too sure of one's own wisdom. It is healthy to be reminded that the strongest might weaken and the wisest might err. ↗

— Mahatma Gandhi

#healthy #might #own #reminded #strongest

You have to write the book that wants to be written. And if the book will be too difficult for grown-ups, then you write it for children. ↗

— Madeleine L'Engle

#children #difficult #grown-ups #write #writers

What a treacherous thing to believe that a person is more than a person. ↗

— John Green

#person

People are supposed to fear the unknown, but ignorance is bliss when knowledge is so damn frightening. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#unknown #laugh

You must tell Lady Alanna that sometime. I'd do it from a distance. ↗

— Tamora Pierce

#daine #fighting #misogyny #owned #immortality