9 quotes found
“I wonder what else I could do that I never thought I could.”
“Maybe some things aren't meant to be known. maybe there just meant to be accepted.”
“Do you ever think if people heard our conversations they'd lock us up?"All the time.”
“It's not an old book, or a treasure map. Nope. Staring up at me was a pile of rocks.”
“A fight is going on inside me," said an old man to his son. "It is a terrible fight between two wolves. One wolf is evil. He is anger, envy, sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, rese...”
“If an object - a star, for instance, like our own sun - is eight hundred light years away from the Earth, it would take light leaving that object eight hundred years until it reached our eyes. So w...”
“Everything we think we know is really only perceived by our senses,' he explains patiently. 'The sounds we hear are just waves in the air; colors are electromagnetic radiation; your sense of taste ...”
“We are here because over billions of years, countless variables fell into place, any of which could have taken another path. We are essentially a beautiful fluke, as are the millions of other speci...”
“I made sure to pay attention to everything I was doing. To be fully in the moment. Because that's all life is, really, a string of moments that you knot together and carry with you. Hopefully most ...”