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  • We on Earth have just awakened to the great oceans of space and time from which we have emerged. We are the legacy of 15 billion years of cosmic evolution. We have a choice: We can enhance life and come to know the universe that made us, or we can squander our 15 billion-year heritage in meaningless self-destruction. What happens in the first second of the next cosmic year depends on what we do, here and now, with our intelligence and our knowledge of the cosmos.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Carl Sagan Quotes , Ocean Quotes , Self Quotes
  • The human being is a self-propelled automaton entirely under the control of external influences. Willful and predetermined though they appear, his actions are governed not from within, but from without. He is like a float tossed about by the waves of a turbulent sea.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Nikola Tesla Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Self-inquiry is a spiritually induced form of wintertime. It's not about looking for a right answer so much as stripping away and letting you see what is not necessary, what you can do without, what you are without your leaves.
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Adyashanti Quotes , Self Quotes , Inquiry Quotes
  • The function of violence is to obtain reform by external means, the function of passive resistance, that is, soul-force, is to obtain it by growth from within, which, in its turn, is obtained by self-suffering, self-purification.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Mahatma Gandhi Quotes , Mean Quotes , Self Quotes
  • what we call a home is merely any place that succeeds in making more consistenly available to us the important truths which the wider world ignores, or which our distracted and irresolute selves have trouble holding onto." (p123) Architecture of Happiness
  • 6 years ago



    Tags : Alain de Botton Quotes , Home Quotes , Self Quotes
  • These are the voices which we hear in solitude, but they grow faint and inaudible as we enter into the world. Society everywhere is in conspiracy against the manhood of everyone of its members. Society is a joint-stock company, in which the members agree, for the better securing of his bread to each shareholder, to surrender the liberty and culture of the eater. The virtue in most request is conformity. Self-reliance is its aversion. It loves not realities and creators, but names and customs.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ralph Waldo Emerson Quotes , Reality Quotes , Self Quotes
  • Only two kinds of people can attain self-knowledge: those who are not encumbered at all with learning, that is to say, whose minds are not over-crowded with thoughts borrowed from others; and those who, after studying all the scriptures and sciences, have come to realise that they know nothing.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Ramakrishna Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Self Quotes
  • ...Conservatives have excellent credentials to speak about human rights. By our efforts, and with precious little help from self-styled liberals, we were largely responsible for securing liberty for a substantial share of the world's population and defending it for most of the rest.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : Margaret Thatcher Quotes , Rights Quotes , Self Quotes
  • There was one of his lonelinesses coming, one of those times when he walked the streets or sat, aimless and depressed, biting a pencil at his desk. It was a self-absorption with no comfort, a demand for expression with no outlet, a sense of time rushing by, ceaselessly and wastefully - assuaged only by that conviction that there was nothing to waste, because all efforts and attainments were equally valueless.
  • 5 years ago



    Tags : F. Scott Fitzgerald Quotes , Loneliness Quotes , Self Quotes