#universe

There was no "before" the beginning of our universe, because once upon a time there was no time. ↗

— John D. Barrow

#because #before #beginning #once #our

The principle of subordination is the great bond of union and harmony through the universe. ↗

— Catharine Beecher

#great #harmony #principle #subordination #through

A boxing workout is the heaviest thing, but it's the best. The worst part is that boxing gyms are the smelliest things in the universe. You have to lie down on the floor, where everyone has been sweating and spitting, and do 1,000 situps and push-ups. ↗

— Gael Garcia Bernal

#best #boxing #down #everyone #floor

In very different ways, the possibility that the universe is teeming with life, and the opposite possibility that we are totally alone, are equally exciting. Either way, the urge to know more about the universe seems to me irresistible, and I cannot imagine that anybody of truly poetic sensibility could disagree. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#extraterrestrial-life #life #science #universe #wonder

In any case, in so far as our knowledge of the universe carries us, the advent of civilization for the first time on our globe represents the highest ascent of the life processes to which evolution had anywhere attained. ↗

— James H. Breasted

#any #anywhere #ascent #attained #carries

My mother taught me that the universe guides, teaches, and offers up gifts... even when bad things happen. ↗

— John Wozniak

#even #gifts #guides #happen #me

You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection. ↗

— Buddha

#anybody #deserve #entire #entire universe #love

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

#alone #i #little #low #our

A mother is an individual who'd go to any length for someone else, beyond rationality, beyond her physical body, her social bindings of state, country, her kind. That's the most horrifying individual you'll ever meet. ↗

— E.J. Koh

#death #family #fantasy #love #philosophy

The universe hands you opportunities for a while, and if you don't take them, the universe says to itself, 'Oh I see, this person doesn't like opportunities' and stops giving them to you. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#hands #i #i see #itself #like