"This is the most enormous extension of vision of which life is capable: the projection of itself into other lives. This is the lonely, magnificent power of humanity. It is . . . the supreme epitome of the reaching out."

-- Loren Eiseley

#Lonely Quotes #Empathy Quotes #Humanity Quotes

“Man needs color to live; it's just as necessary an element as fire and water.”
“... up to this date, I have never been shut up in a separate room, or hedged off with any observances. My study, all the study I have attained to, is the little 2nd drawing room where all the (feminine) life of the house goes on; and I don't think I have ever had two hours undisturbed (except at night, when everybody is in bed) during my whole literary life.”

Source : Margaret Oliphant (2002). “The Autobiography of Margaret Oliphant”, p.67, Broadview Press
“Throw away your 10-function chronometer, heart-rate monitor with the computer printout, training log, high-tech underwear, pace charts, and laboratory-rat-tested-air-injected-gel-lined-mo-tion-control-top-of-the-line footwear. Run with your own imagination.”
“We're all so damned fragile.”
“Every time an artist dies, part of the vision of mankind passes with him.”
“The key is this: Meet today's problems with today's strength. Don't start tackling tomorrow's problems until tomorrow. You do not have tomorrow's strength yet. You simply have enough for today.”
“I had a dream once. I wanted to do a line of cocaine off a hooker's ass. That's when I realized, 'Hey, I'm freakin' Zach Braff.' I did it the next morning.”
“Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever.”

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