There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.
Space is all one space and thought is all one thought, but my mind divides its spaces into spaces into spaces and thoughts into thoughts into thoughts. Like a large condominium. Occasionally I think about the one Space and the one Thought, but usually I don't. Usually I think about my condominium.
I have made this letter longer than usual, because I lack the time to make it short.
Sometimes when I consider what tremendous consequences come from little things - I am tempted to think there are no little things.
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
We cling to our own point of view, as though everything depended on it. Yet our opinions have no permanence; like autumn and winter, they gradually pass away.
Your eyes are always bigger than your stomach.
What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things . . . it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.
I'm desperately trying to figure out why kamikaze pilots wore helmets.
I know up on the top you are seeing great sights, but down at the bottom we, too, should have rights.
Our children go to school to learn to commnicate, and all the teachers do is tell them is shut up.
Life is neither a spectacle nor a feast, it is predicament.
The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.
The optimist proclaims that we live in the best of all possible worlds; and the pessimist fears this is true.
He who can take no interest in what is small will take false interest in what is great.
Very few people are ambitious in the sense of having a specific image of what they want to achieve. Most people's sights are only toward the next run, the next increment of money.
You are all you will ever have for certain.
In order to draw a limit to thinking, we should have to think both sides of this limit.
The radical of one century is the conservative of the next. The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and shut one eye, and my thumb blotted out the planet Earth. I didn't feel like a giant. I felt very, very small.
Every positive value has its price in negative terms...The genius of Einstein leads to Hiroshima.
Two boys arrived yesterday with a pebble they said was the head of a dog until I pointed out that it was really a typewriter.
Perspective- Use it or Lose It. If you turned to this page, you're forgetting that what is going on around you is not reality. Think about that.
Have no fear of perfection, you'll never reach it.
Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go.
I have not failed, I've found 10,000 ways that won't work.
Much of the social history of the Western world over the past three decades has involved replacing what worked with what sounded good.
When they tell you to grow up, they mean stop growing.
True stability results when presumed order and presumed disorder are balanced. A truly stable system expects the unexpected, is prepared to be disrupted, waits to be transformed.
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