"This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's isolated, and there is no resupply. And we are mistreating it."

-- Scott Carpenter

#Lonely Quotes #Flower Quotes #Earth Quotes

“He's convinced most human adults do not know how to play anymore and that playing is one of the best ways to think. Franky finds children, by far, much more pleasant and intelligent than most adults, but they are easily ruined by their families, schools, and society. He says one of the ways they are ruined is by being forced to think of all the tasks that need to be done as work, not as play. It takes the joy out of living.”
“Happiness is a present attitude and not a future condition.”

Source : Hugh Prather (1970). “Notes to myself: my struggle to become a person”
“My ideas sometimes get the better of me. Before I clearly explain one, another comes to mind and seizes my attention....”

Source : Ellen J. Langer (1989). “Mindfulness”, Da Capo Press
“I wonder is happiness only an essence of good living, that you shall taste only once or twice while you live, and then go on living with the taste in your mouth, and wishing you had the fullness of it solid between your teeth, like a good meal that you have tasted and cherished and look back in your mind to eat again.”

Source : RICHARD LLEWELLYN (1967). “HOW GREEN WAS MY VALLEY”
“Gambling is so pervasive in Nevada that maybe the state should just go the whole hog. There'd be gum machines that dispensed chewing tobacco if you lost. You could gamble for the toilet paper in public bathroom stalls. And fill out Keno cards in an attempt to win cancer therapy at the hospital.”
“The main way I start to allocate color is that it comes from the comics. That's where it all starts from.”

Source : Source: www.slashfilm.com
“A curse on every wish that blurs the sight, paralyzes the tongue, cramps the hand, and prevents the truth being seen, said, and written.”
“What came up at age 49 is I realized that of all the things I'm interested in, the thing I'm most interested in is figuring out what makes people tick, why people think the way they do, why they act the way they do. And I realized that music is such a great way to investigate why people do what they do.”

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