#sen

I don't think humanity just replays history, but we are the same people our ancestors were, and our descendants are going to face a lot of the same situations we do. It's instructive to imagine how they would react, with different technologies on different worlds. That's why I write science fiction -- even though the term 'science fiction' excites disdain in certain persons. ↗

— Kage Baker

#history #human-experience #past-and-future #past-and-present #science-fiction

We’re so caught up in trying to do everything, experience all the essential things, not miss out on anything important...We can’t read all the good books, watch all the good films, go to all the best cities in the world, try all the best restaurants, meet all the great people...Life is better when we don’t try to do everything. Learn to enjoy the slice of life you experience, and life turns out to be wonderful. ↗

— Leo Babauta

#experience

Why can't we simply borrow what is useful to us from Buddhism, Hinduism, Taoism, especially Zen, as we borrow from Christianity, science, American Indian traditions and world literature in general, including philosophy, and let the rest go hang? Borrow what we need but rely principally upon our own senses, common sense and daily living experience. ↗

— Edward Abbey

#experiences #religion #experience

Read the directions and directly you will be directed in the right direction. ↗

— Lewis Carroll

#nonsense

in nonsense is strength ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#nonsense

I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drinking #erode #erosion #flesh #geology

No one knows as well as I how much nonsense is printed in books. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#reading #nonsense

Can`t you see that I`m only advising you to beg yourself not to be so dumb? ↗

— Titus Petronius Niger

#humour #irony #latin #nonsense #satyre

The way you live each day is a sentence in the story of your life. Every day, you make the choice whether the sentence ends with a period, question mark, or exclamation point. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#each-day #life #sentence #story #experience

Is marijuana addictive? Yes, in the sense that most of the really pleasant things in life are worth endlessly repeating. ↗

— Richard Neville

#marijuana #pleasent #life