"Who will speak for Planet Earth?"

-- Carl Sagan

#Earth Quotes #Enthusiasm Quotes #Speak Quotes

“When trust is lost, a nation's ability to transact business is palpably undermined.”
“The analytical geometry of Descartes and the calculus of Newton and Leibniz have expanded into the marvelous mathematical method”
“I wanted to be the best in the world.”
“Mama, I know you used to ride the bus. Riding the bus and itâ€™s hot and bumpy and crowded and too noisy and more than anything in the world you want to get off and the only reason in the world you donâ€™t get off is itâ€™s still fifty blocks from where youâ€™re going? Well, I can get off right now if I want to, because even if I ride fifty more years and get off then, itâ€™s the same place when I step down to it. Whenever I feel like it, I can get off. As soon as Iâ€™ve had enough, itâ€™s my stop. Iâ€™ve had enough.”

Source : "'night, Mother". www.imdb.com. September 5, 1986.
“...the Blessed will see their friends and relations among the damned as often as they like but without the least of compassion.”
“To discover the rules of society that are best suited to nations, there would need to exist a superior intelligence, who could understand the passions of men without feeling any of them, who had no affinity with our nature but knew it to the full, whose happiness was independent of ours, but who would nevertheless make our happiness his concern, who would be content to wait in the fullness of time for a distant glory, and to labour in one age to enjoy the fruits in another. Gods would be needed to give men laws.”
“True healing means drawing the circle of our being larger and becoming more inclusive, more capable of loving. In this sense, healing is not for the sick alone, but for all humankind.”

Source : "Healers on Healing". Book by Richard Carlson, ‎Benjamin Shield (p. 36), 1989.
“He loves so wholly. It is his nature. He blinks, then tries to find the right response. "I-" he stumbles. "I'm so afraid, June. So afraid of what might happen to-" I put two fingers against his lips to hush him. "Fear makes you stronger," I whisper. Before I can stop myself, I put my hands on his face and press my mouth to his.”

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