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“Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books that are now written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given you because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer.”
Source : Rainer Maria Rilke, John J. L. Mood (1994). “Rilke on Love and Other Difficulties: Translations and Considerations”, p.31, W. W. Norton & Company
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“So as I increase in my knowledge, in my training and education, I increase in my value in my worth to society that I’m trying to penetrate.”
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“The word is like an object - we were thinking "bloom," "doom." It encapsulated tons: the bloom, the end of the bloom, and then coming back the next year.”
Source : Source: pitchfork.com
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“Tact is the great ability to see other people as they think you see them.”
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“I really haven't been cognitive of gas prices. It wasn't until I filled up my husband's Toyota Prius Hybrid that I had a moment of understanding of how people who drive gas cars feel.”
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“Think of every character as a main character. They believe they're the main characters in their stories. No one should just be an obstacle.”
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“Will you ever bring a better gift for the world than the breathing respect that you carry wherever you go right now?”
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“The sun is the only safe nuclear reactor, situated as it is some ninety-three million miles away.”
Source : Stephanie Mills (1990). “In Praise of Nature”, p.97, Island Press
