“When you know a lot about the world, you can positively and intelligently contribute to conversations about art, politics, and leisure.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“Traveling shows us that we have more similarities with people from other cultures than differences, that the world isn’t that scary after all, and that people are fundamentally good.”— Kristin Addis, thoughtcatalog.com
“The boundaries we erect to divide heaven from earth, mind from matter, real from unreal are mere conveniences. Having made the boundaries, we can unmake them just as easily.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“I believe there is a difference between intrinsic human nature— which I agree does not change, and the aspects of human nature we routinely express, which can and do change.”— Al Gore, amazon.com
“A civilization that relentlessly destroys the living land it inhabits is not well acquainted with truth, regardless of how many supported facts it has amassed regarding the calculable properties of its world.”— David Abram, amazon.com
“The seeds of life— fiery is their force, divine their birth, but they are weighed down by the bodies’ ills or dulled by earthly limbs and flesh that’s born for death.”— Virgil, amazon.com
“They are incomprehensible, the things of this earth. The lure of waters. The lure of fruits.”— Czeslaw Milosz, amazon.com
“You yourself are made up of atoms that rained down on to Earth billions of years ago. So when you meet someone and you swear that you have known them before, that you have felt them before, know that there is no coincidence in that, finally your cells are reunited, and at last, it feels like you are…”— Bianca Sparacino, amazon.com