#universe

The universe doesn't give you what you want in your mind; it gives you what you demand with your actions. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#demand #happiness #intent #motivation #success

A universe without purpose should neither depress us nor suggest that our lives are purposeless. Through an awe-inspiring cosmic history we find ourselves on this remote planet in a remote corner of the universe, endowed with intelligence and self-awareness. We should not despair, but should humbly rejoice in making the most of these gifts, and celebrate our brief moment in the sun. ↗

— Lawrence M. Krauss

#purpose #universe #inspirational

It is a secret which every intellectual man quickly learns, that, beyond the energy of his possessed and conscious intellect, he is capable of a new energy (as of an intellect doubled on itself), by abandonment to the nature of things; that, beside his privacy of power as an individual man, there is a great public power, on which he can draw, by unlocking, at all risks, his human doors, and suffering the ethereal tides to roll and circulate through him: then is he caught up into the life of the Universe, his speech is thunder, his thought is law, and his words are universally intelligible as the plants and animals. ↗

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

#ethereal-tides #great-public-power #individual-man #intellect #life-of-the-universe

As you simplify your life, the laws of the universe will be simpler; solitude will not be solitude, poverty will not be poverty, nor weakness weakness. ↗

— Henry David Thoreau

#life #nor #poverty #simpler #simplify

The goal of life is to make your heartbeat match the beat of the universe to match your nature with Nature. ↗

— Joseph Campbell

#life #universe #life

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. ↗

— Clarice Lispector

#life

It is very important to a lot of people to make unmistakably clear to themselves and to the universe that they love the universe but are not intimidated by it and will not be shaken by it, no matter what it has in store. Moreover, they demand something from themselves early in life that can be taken ever after as a demonstration of this abiding feeling. ↗

— Norman Maclean

#love #universe #life

Anybody who thinks there's nothing wrong with this world needs to have his head examined. Just when things are going all right, without fail someone or something will come along and spoil everything. Somebody should write that down as a fundamental law of the Universe. The principle of perpetual disappointment. If there is a God who created this world, he should scrap it and try again. ↗

— Athol Fugard

#god #law #laws-of-the-universe #life #life-lesson

Every carbon atom in every living thing on the planet was produced in the heart of a dying star. ↗

— Brian Cox

#science #universe #life

You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and stars; you have a right to be here. And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should. ↗

— Max Ehrmann

#universe #life