"Evolution has never found a way to be any speed but very slow."

-- Jaron Lanier

#Way Quotes #Evolution Quotes #Speed Quotes

“Seated one day at the organ, I was weary and ill at ease, and my fingers wandered idly over the noisy keys. It seemed the harmonious echo from our discordant life.”

Source : "A Lost Chord" l. 1 (1858)
“The fact that you can take LEGO bricks from thirty years ago and they still snap together with the same new LEGO brick that comes out, I mean what type of product can span generations like that, there is something really special to it.”
“According to Vedanta, there are only two symptoms of enlightenment, just two indications that a transformation is taking place within you toward a higher consciousness. The first symptom is that you stop worrying. Things don't bother you anymore. You become light hearted and full of joy. The second symptom is that you encounter more and more meaningful coincidences in your life, more and more synchronicities. And this accelerates to the point where you actually experience the miraculous.”
“When we think of friends, and call their faces out of the shadows, and their voices out of the echoes that faint along the corridors of memory, and do it without knowing why save that we love to do it, we content ourselves that that friendship is a Reality, and not a Fancy--that it is builded upon a rock, and not upon the sands that dissolve away with the ebbing tides and carry their monuments with them.”
“I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.”
“There is nothing frightening about an eternal dreamless sleep. Surely it is better than eternal torment in Hell and eternal boredom in Heaven.”
“... courage is accompanied by patience and firm resolution? God sets courage like a sea around the weakness of our nature, enabling us to undermine the strongholds and citadels of the enemy.”
“How would you feel, if the day that you were born, somebody else had already planned the day of your execution?”

Source : "Full Transcript: Gary Yourofsky on Animal Rights and Veganism at Georgia Tech 2010 (Q&A Included)". singjupost.com. 2010.

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