"Love makes you blind to your own survival. And if it doesn't then it's not love at all."

-- Walter Mosley

#Survival Quotes #Blind Quotes

“The way I look at it, I'd rather make my own mistakes than have people make them for me.”
“Since, in the long run, every planetary civilization will be endangered by impacts from space, every surviving civilization is obliged to become spacefaring--not because of exploratory or romantic zeal, but for the most practical reason imaginable: staying alive... If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds.”
“A man of God would never burn or harm a temple of any kind -- regardless of religion. A true man of God would see every temple or divine mansion built to glorify THE CREATOR -- as an extension of the temple closest to his home, regardless of its shape, size, or color. A man who truly recognizes and knows God can see God in all things. Truth can only be seen by those with truth in them.”
“Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise”
“The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul; one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others.”
“I'm a good example of wanting to apologize only for my precise share of a problem--as I calculate it, of course--and I expect my husband Steve to apologize for his share, also as I calculate it. Since we're not always of one mind on the math, it can lead to the theater of the absurd.”
“One day I'll be able to relax a bit, and try and become a good composer.”
“Honesty can be a dirty gift.”

Source : Colin Cotterill (2014). “Thirty-Three Teeth”, p.51, Open Road Media

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