After sleeping through a hundred million centuries we have finally opened our eyes on a sumptuous planet, sparkling with color, bountiful with life. Within decades we must close our eyes again. Isn't it a noble, an enlightened way of spending our brief time in the sun, to work at understanding the universe and how we have come to wake up in it? This is how I answer when I am asked'”as I am surprisingly often'”why I bother to get up in the mornings.
- Richard DawkinsThe suspicious believe everybody to be suspicious; the liar feels secure in the thought that he is not so foolish as to believe that there is such a phenomenon as a strictly truthful person; the envious see envy in every soul; the miser thinks everybody is eager to get his money;...and the abandoned sensualist looks upon the saint as a hypocrite
- James AllenHumor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs.
- Christopher MorleyYou have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the only way, it does not exist.
- Friedrich Nietzschethe tragic or the humorous is a matter of perspective
- Arnold BeisserWhat is important in life is life, and not the result of life.
- Johann Wolfgang von GoetheThe more you lose yourself in something bigger than yourself, the more energy you will have.
- Norman Vincent Peale“I never make a trip to the United States without visiting a supermarket. To me they are more fascinating than any fashion salon.”
- Duchess of Windsor