#ture

My past is my wisdom to use today... my future is my wisdom yet to experience. Be in the present because that is where life resides. ↗

— Gene Oliver

#experience #future #life #past #present

We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures; because the earth never froze entirely during an ice age; because a small and tenuous species, arising in Africa a quarter of a million years ago, has managed, so far, to survive by hook and by crook. We may yearn for a ‘higher answer’– but none exists ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#evolution #inspirational #life #nature #science

I have an almost religious zeal... not for technology per se, but for the Internet which is for me, the nervous system of mother Earth, which I see as a living creature, linking up. ↗

— Dan Millman

#almost #creature #earth #i #i see

Love is to be nurtured, protected, and respected, and entered into with a clear mind and a sound heart. ↗

— Denene Millner

#entered #heart #into #love #love is

Basketball, in America, is like a culture. It is like a foreigner learning a new language. It is difficult to learn foreign languages and it will also be difficult for me to learn the culture for basketball here. ↗

— Yao Ming

#america #basketball #culture #difficult #foreign

Before the real city could be seen it had to be imagined, the way rumours and tall tales were a kind of charting. ↗

— Michael Ondaatje

#toronto #toronto-literature #imagination

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#churches #flesh #naked #people #pictures

For those of us who take literature very seriously, picking up a work of fiction is the start of an adventure comparable in anticipatory excitement to what I imagine is felt by an athlete warming up for a competition, a mountain climber preparing for the ascent: it is the beginning of a process whose outcome is unknown, one that promises the thrill and elation of success but may as easily end in bitter disappointment. Committed readers realize at a certain point that literature is where we have learned a good part of the little we know about living. ↗

— Edith Grossman Why Translation Matters

#literature-in-translation #imagination

That was always my fear, that perhaps books would lead me astray, teaching me about a life that didn’t match reality. ↗

— Stefanos Livos

#imagination #literature #reality #stories #teach

I believe that reforms will not really take hold if they do not gradually come into the culture of the people. ↗

— Mario Monti

#come #culture #gradually #hold #i