“In a relativistic universe you don't cling to anything, you learn to swim. And you know what swimming is - it's kind of a relaxed attitude with the water. In which you don't keep yourself afloat by holding the water, but by a certain giving to it.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“Beauty is dad kissing mom's hand when it cramps. Beauty is seeing a Persian woman dance. Ugly is not the absence of beauty. Ugly is the inability to identify it. The inability to be surprised by it. It is the persistent reluctance to be made a child by it. Beauty is simply the manifestation of love.”— Kamand Kojouri, goodreads.com
“I have been absolutely terrified of everything in my life, but I never let it stop me from doing a single thing I wanted to do.”— Georgia O'Keeffe, amazon.com
“The planet does not need more successful people. The planet desperately needs more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of all kind.”— David W. Orr, amazon.com
“Men are born ignorant, not stupid; they are made stupid by education.”— Bertrand Russell, amazon.com
“It is well known that rhythm is not meter or cadence, even irregular meter or cadence: there is nothing less rhythmic than a military march.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“From chaos, Milieus and Rhythms are born. This is the concern of very ancient cosmogonies. Chaos is not without its own directional compo-nents, which are its own ecstasies. We have seen elsewhere how all kinds of milieus, each defined by a component, slide in relation to one another, over one anoth…”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Sometimes chaos is an immense black hole in which one endeavors to fix a fragile point as a center. Sometimes one organizes around that point a calm and stable "pace" (rather than a form): the black hole has become a home. Sometimes one grafts onto that pace a breakaway from the black hole.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Go through the proper motions each day and you'll soon begin to feel the corresponding emotions.”— George W. Crane, amazon.com
“One ventures from home on the thread of a tune. Along sonorous, gestural, motor lines that mark the customary path of a child and graft themselves onto or begin to bud "linesof drift" with different loops, knots, speeds, movements, gestures, and sonorities.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, amazon.com
“Now we are at home. But home does not preexist: it was necessary to draw a circle around that uncertain and fragile center, to organize a limited space. Many, very diverse, components have a part in this, landmarks and marks of all kinds.”— Gilles Deleuze, Félix Guattari, lsa.umich.edu
“If there is one thing developmental psychologists have learned over the years, it is that parents don’t have to be brilliant psychologists to succeed. They don’t have to be supremely gifted teachers. Most of the stuff parents do with flashcards and special drills and tutorials to hone their kids int…”— David Brooks, amazon.com
“When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly.”— Jen Knox, amazon.com
“Considering that we live in an era of evolutionary everything – evolutionary biology, evolutionary medicine, evolutionary ecology, evolutionary psychology, evolutionary economics, evolutionary computing – it was surprising how rarely people thought in evolutionary terms. It was a human blind spot. W…”— Michael Crichton, amazon.com
“How do we regulate our emotions? The answer is surprisingly simple: by thinking about them. The prefrontal cortex allows each of us to contemplate his or her own mind, a talent psychologists call metacognition. We know when we are angry; every emotional state comes with self-awareness attached, so t…”— Jonah Lehrer, amazon.com
“I look around with divine precision and gazing free upon the Earth, I see architects and earthquakes, empaths and robots, fictions and near misses, lives changing, children sleeping, beauty brimming.I see us trying on ways of being – so sweet and messy, so worthwhile.”— Laurie Perez, goodreads.com