Life is short—the fruit of this life is a good character and acts for the common good – Marcus Aurelius
Few people know how to take a walk. The qualifications are endurance, plain clothes, old shoes, an eye for nature, good humor, vast curiosity, good speech, good silence, and nothing too much – Ralph Waldo Emerson
Success is liking yourself, liking what you do, and liking how you do it – Maya Angelou
The imagination of nature is far, far greater than the imagination of man. – Richard Feynman
If your opinions on one subject can be predicted from your opinions on another, you may be in the grip of an ideology. When you truly think for yourself, your conclusions will not be predictable. – Kevin Kelly
If a problem is fixable, if a situation is such that you can do something about it, then there is no need to worry. If it’s not fixable, then there is no help in worrying. There is no benefit in worrying whatsoever – His Holiness The Dalai Lama
For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed – Alexander Rostov (A Gentleman in Moscow by Amor Towles)
Science may provide the most useful way to organize empirical, reproducible data, but its power to do so is predicated on its inability to grasp the most central aspects of human life: hope, fear, love, hate, beauty, envy, honor, weakness, striving, suffering, virtue – Paul Kalanithi
There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle – Albert Einstein
When the facts change, I change my mind – John Maynard Keynes
The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not ‘Eureka’ but ‘That’s funny…’ – Isaac Asimov
The cost of a thing is the amount of what I will call life which is required to be exchanged for it, immediately or in the long run – Henry David Thoreau