“The only true voyage of discovery … would be not to visit strange lands but to possess other eyes, to behold the universe through the eyes of another, of a hundred others, to behold the hundred universes that each of them beholds, that each of them is.” — Marcel Proust
Category: Life Quotes
“I wonder if some aspect of human nature evolved in the context of competing packs. We might be genetically wired to be vulnerable to the lure of the mob.… What’s to stop an online mass of anonymous but connected people from suddenly turning into a mean mob, just like masses of people have time and time again in the history of every human culture?” — Jaron Lanier, computer scientist and philosopher
“If individuals are naturally inclined to desire what their neighbors possess, or to desire what their neighbors even simply desire, this means that rivalry exists at the very heart of human social relations. This rivalry, if not thwarted, would permanently endanger harmony and even the survival of all human communities.” — René Girard
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.” — Milan Kundera
“Nothing has happened today except kindness.” – Gertrude Stein
“The true way to live is to enjoy every moment as it passes, and surely it is in the everyday things around us that the beauty of life lies.” – Laura Ingalls Wilder
“I read somewhere how important it is in life not necessarily to be strong…but to feel strong.” – Jon Krakauer
“There are two ways of exerting one’s strength; one is pushing down, the other is pulling up.” – Booker T. Washington
“Those who hope, by retiring from the world, to earn a holiday from human frailty, in themselves and others, are usually disappointed.” – Iris Murdoch
“Live strong. Live honorably and with dignity. When you don’t think you can, hold on.” – James Frey
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