Place - Quotes
Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other`s eyes for an instant?
It`s human nature to want to fix what`s broken. We may not be able to replicate exactly what we lost. But in its place will grow something new. It`s a long process, but it happens. Slowly, but surely until we have what we need.
You know the world`s an ambiguous place. You know that love doesn`t conquer all. It conquers some stuff. The other stuff kicks the living crap out of love.
It always feels like there is just one person in this world to love. And then you find somebody else, and it just seems crazy that you were ever worried in the first place.
Believe in yourself. You are unique. You are important. There is a place in the world that only you can fill and nobody else.
Don`t place expectations on someone. Enjoy the time you have together, and let it go where it goes.
The motives by which we act are inscribed in our intimate structure as mammals, as hunters, as social beings: reason illuminates these connections, it does not generate them. We are not, in the first place, reasoning beings. We may perhaps become so, more or less, in the second. In the first instance, we are driven by a thirst for life, by hunger, by the need to love, by the instinct to find our place in human society... The second instance does not even exist without the first. Reason arbitrates between instincts but uses the very same instincts as primary criteria in its arbitration.
As human beings, we live by emotions and thoughts. We exchange them when we are in the same place at the same time, talking to each other, looking into each other`s eyes, brushing against each other`s skin. We are nourished by this network of encounters and exchanges.
If you want to make the world a better place
Take a look at yourself, and then make a change.
In love, somehow, a man`s heart is always either exceeding the speed limit, or getting parked in the wrong place.
If every trace of any single religion were wiped out and nothing were passed on, it would never be created exactly that way again. There might be some other nonsense in its place, but not that exact nonsense. If all of science were wiped out, it would still be true and someone would find a way to figure it all out again.
In order to succeed in your failure, you have to think of your failed situation as a good place to start from.