She has to lose her pre-Copernican view of a universe revolving around herself.
You say you’re ‘depressed’ – all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn’t mean you’re defective – it just means you’re human.
Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.
My life amounts to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean. Yet what is any ocean, but a multitude of drops?
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I’ll be waiting for you there.
A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.
The better organized the state, the duller its humanity.
What wouldn’t I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds.
I am going to tell you a secret. Everything is about wanting. Everything. Things happen because of people wanting. Watch closely, and you’ll see what I mean.
By each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.
Once any tyranny becomes accepted as ordinary, its victory is assured.
A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it.
Truth is singular. Its ‘versions’ are mistruths.
Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one’s core.
Torturous advances won over generations can be lost by a single stroke of a myopic president’s pen or a vainglorious general’s sword.
Maybe then you comprehend, speaking one language only is a prison!
Trees’re always a relief, after people.
False modesty can be worse than arrogance.
Faith, the least exclusive club on Earth, has the craftiest doorman. Every time I’ve stepped through its wide-open doorway, I find myself stepping out on the street again.