Thoughts On Life Quotes

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Carl Safina
“We look at the world through our own eyes, naturally. But by looking from the inside out, we see an inside-out world. This book takes the perspective of the world outside us—a world in which humans are not the measure of all things, a human race among other races. ...In our estrangement from nature we have severed our sense of the community of life and lost touch with the experience of other animals. ...understanding the human animal becomes easier in context, seeing our human thread woven into the living web among the strands of so many others.”
Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Animals Think and Feel

Amaka Imani Nkosazana
“They may throw sticks, stones, or bricks, but nothing they do will hurt you. You are protected by God. He is forever got you covered and the enemy is defeated. Their hatred towards you is a reflection of the evilness on their inside which is slowly destroying them. A person like that must deal with the matters of their heart.”
Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Release The Ink

Sarah Centrella
“Your thoughts become your BELIEFS. Your beliefs become your TRUTH. Your truth becomes your STORY. Your story IS your REALITY.”
Sarah Centrella, Hustle Believe Receive: An 8-Step Plan to Changing Your Life and Living Your Dream

Marina Keegan
“My instinct, of course, is to imagine us as one of many planets racing its evolution against its sun--merely one in the galactic Darwinian pursuit. But maybe we're not. Maybe all this talk of the inevitability of aliens is garbage and we're miraculously, beautifully alone in our biological success. What if we're winning? What if we're actually the most evolved intelligence in all this big bang chaos? What if other planets have bacteria and single-celled genotypes but nothing more?

The precedent is all the more pressing. Humans alone could be winning the race against our giant gas time bomb and running with the universal Olympic torch. What an honor. What a responsibility. What a gift we have been given to be born in an atmosphere with oxygen and carbon dioxide and millions of years and phenotypes cheering us on with recycles of energy.

The thing is, I think we can make it. I think we can shove ourselves into spaceships before things get too cold.

I only hope we don't fuck things up before that. Because millions of years is a long time and I don't want to let the universe down.”
Marina Keegan, The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories

“the life we live is so uncertain that that we can least predict the very uncertainty that would be our woe. Whether we risk something or we do not risk anything, there is a risk for us to take from dawn to dusk. It is noteworthy then that it is highly riskier to risk nothing when the life we live is always at the mercy of uncertain risks of life”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Terry Pratchett
“We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compared with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution.”
Terry Pratchett, Strata

“Beware! devil occupies your soul with forbidden desires”
Muhammad Anwar Jalil

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“If you open the flood gates of thought you do not know what may come. You may discover that you are better than you thought or worse than the devil himself”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

“What troubles us much, is of less importance to what troubles us much that invokes our thought, heart, spirit and body to dare to a live distinctive footprint on earth”
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Bangambiki Habyarimana
“There is hope for you when your opinions are in opposition to those of the majority. Your brain mighty be working as it was meant to.”
Bangambiki Habyarimana, The Great Pearl of Wisdom

Terry Pratchett
“We all think we understand each other,' Kin heard Silver say. 'We eat together, we trade, many of us pride ourselves on having alien friends - but all this is only possible, only possible, Kin, because we do not fully comprehend the other. You've studied Earth history. Do you think you could understand the workings of of the mind of a Japanese warrior a thousand years ago? But he is as a twin to you compare with Marco, or with myself. When we use the word "cosmopolitan" we use it too lightly - it's flippant, it means we're galactic tourists who communicate in superficialities. We don't comprehend. Different worlds, Kin. Different anvils of gravity and radiation and evolution.”
Terry Pratchett

Hina Hashmi
“Materialize what you want with cooperation of other people not by depriving them.”
Hina Hashmi, Your Life A Practical Guide to Happiness Peace and Fulfilment

“Sometimes I really want to lease a suite in a Davy Jones’s Locker and spend several hours, being immersed in reminiscence and exultation. All the gadgets and cell phone connection won’t work there, it could be the most cherished and long-awaited moment. But with the tremendous pace of life and daily miseries I simply cannot afford even this instant. It’s so trite and rueful.”
Alexander Zalan

“Be the change that you want to see in others and in this universe.”
Bhavya

“Why dwell on negative thoughts? When you can think positively.”
Lailah Gifty Akita, Think Great: Be Great!