"Thought subsides when you pet your dog or you have a purring cat on your chest. Even just watching an animal can take you out of your mind. It is more deeply connected with the source of life than most humans, and that rootedness in Being transmits itself to you. Millions of people who otherwise would be completely lost in the conceptual reality of their mind are kept sane by living with an animal."

-- Eckhart Tolle

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“You know, I feel like people in this country who feel really strongly about a man and a woman being the only -- the sole sort of gatekeeper of marriage should also support people staying together. I mean, a lot of heterosexual couples don't stay together, and I think that's as upsetting as two people who are really committed and loving and have been monogamous for many years wanting to ... be married and have -- share some of the same rights that this country is so uniquely qualified to give people.”
“Anybody who has been seriously engaged in scientific work of any kind realizes that over the entrance to the gates of the temple of science are written the words: 'Ye must have faith.'”

Source : Where is Science Going? epilogue (1932)
“I think housework is far more tiring and frightening than hunting is, no comparison, and yet after hunting we had eggs for tea and were made to rest for hours, but after housework people expect one to go on just as if nothing special had happened.”

Source : Nancy Mitford (2010). “The Pursuit of Love”, p.109, Vintage
“I needed sleep. Big squishy bunches of it. Soon.”

Source : Devon Monk (2010). “Magic at the Gate: An Allie Beckstrom Novel”, p.194, Penguin
“We are reading the story of our lives As though we were in it As though we had written it.”

Source : Mark Strand (2014). “Collected Poems”, p.145, Knopf
“I think photography was inside me. Once I found it, it became stronger than me and I took refuge in it.”
“One regret I have is that I did not learn more about what was happening very early, so that I could have tried to stop people from engaging in illegal activities.”
“The solemnity of the annual Nobel ceremonies in Stockholm with the cheerful bad taste of the grand opening of a shopping center in Los Angeles.”

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