"There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall."

-- Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

#Wall Quotes #Being Alone Quotes #Wine Quotes

“The many great gardens of the world, of literature and poetry, of painting and music, of religion and architecture, all make the point as clear as possible: The soul cannot thrive in the absence of a garden. If you don't want paradise, you are not human; and if you are not human, you don't have a soul.”
“I really struggle to pinpoint whether I became a scientist because I like science fiction, or did I gravitate to science fiction because I identified strongly with scientists.”

Source : "Why Alastair Reynolds Doesn’t Do Star Trek Physics". "Geek’s Guide to the Galaxy" with John Joseph Adams, David Barr Kirtley, www.wired.com. September 5, 2012.
“People misunderstand happiness. They think it's the absence of trouble. That's not happiness, that's luck. Happiness is the ability to live well alongside trouble. No two people have the same trouble, or the same way of metabolizing it. Q.E.D. - No two happy people are happy in the same way. . . . Every day brilliant people, people smarter than I, wallow in safe tragedy and pessimism, shying from what really takes guts - recognizing how much courage and labor happiness demands.”
“If we have been pleased with life, we should not be displeased with death, since it comes from the hand of the same master.”
“My business is to enjoy and have fun. And why not, if in the end everything will end, right?”
“Our cares are all To-day, our joys are all To-day; And in one little word, our life, what is it but--To-day?”
“What made traditional economies so radically different and so very fundamentally dangerous to Western economies were the traditional principles of prosperity of Creation versus scarcity of resources, of sharing and distribution versus accumulation and greed, of kinship usage rights versus individual exclusive ownership rights, and of sustainability versus growth.”
“By doing good we become good.”

Source : Jean Jacques Rousseau (2015). “Emile”, p.407, eKitap Projesi

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