"The rocks are where they are- and this is their will. The rivers flow- and this is their will. The birds fly- this is their will. Human beings talk- this is their will. The seasons change, heaven sends down rain or snow, the earth occasionally shakes, the waves roll, the stars shine- each of them follows its own will. To be is to will and so is to become."

-- D.T. Suzuki

#Stars Quotes #Rain Quotes #Rocks Quotes

“I work in celestial mechanics, but I am not interested in getting to the moon.”
“She smoked because she craved something to do with her hands, that delicate interplay of light and cup and first inhale. Craved the repetition of it. It was so difficult sometimes to be still in a room, alone with oneself. To bare oneself to the lonely.”
“You gotta have a little kid in you to play football.”
“It's unconscionable to breed with the number of children who are starving to death in impoverished countries,”

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“To not dare is to have already lost. We should seek out ambitious, even unrealistic projects, because things only happen when we dream.”
“Perhaps love's greatest gift--that it is indeed unconditional--is also its greatest curse.”
“And what are you doing here, Nicholas? Decided to watch me sleep?" "Yes," said Nick, and bowed is head over his sword again. He had tissues, oil, and sandpaper laid out on the windowsill in front of him, and a little stone block he was passing his sword up and down, very carefully. "I came to gaze upon your sleeping face. Only you had the blanket over your head, so I just had to gaze at a lump I thought was your sleeping face, and that turned out to be your shoulder. Which just wasn't as special." ~Nick and Mae”
“If your only objective is to be popular, you're going to be popular but you will be known as the Prime Minister who achieved nothing.”

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