"I felt that I was really living in the moment. I did not know where my life was going, but right now the future did not trouble me."

-- Ruth Reichl

#Live In The Moment Quotes #Trouble Quotes #Moments Quotes

“I did not come to NASA to make history.”
“You know, the interesting thing about having traveled around the country as much as I have, and I think it's sort of inadvertently what made me come out or at least begin doing things within the community and thinking more about that, was that I get to travel quite a bit.”
“The areas off the greens are masterpieces. I don't think there's anything like it in North America.”
“There's a kind of poetic aspect to inert gas. And remember, first of all, they were completely unknown a hundred years earlier. We just didn't know about them. And then when they were discovered in the atmosphere, the idea that this is a material that would breathe in and exhale and becomes part of us for a while made it even more intriguing. The names, the Greek names, are interesting, too - if you translate neon, xenon and so forth are kind of interesting.”
“I think, therefore I am confused.”
“A philosophy can only be a route to knowledge. It cannot be knowledge crammed down one's throat. If one has a route, he can then find what is true for him. And that is Scientology.”
“It may be that, while we plodding realists go on, for ever preoccupied with our daily chores, abstracting a microscopic pleasure from each microscopic duty, your true romantic has the truer vision, and beholds, afar off, in all its lurid splendour and terrible proportions, the piquant adventure we call life.”

Source : William McFee (1921). “Harbours of Memory”
“The church is only a secular institution in which the half-educated speak to the half-converted.”

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