“Reminding myself that there is never a need to question the universe. Trust. Trust. TRUST. Things happen for a reason - and sometimes that reason is for you to leave your yogi smile at the door and start kicking some serious ass. Warrior up! Do no harm but take no shit. Life is way too short and way…”— Rachel Brathen, instagram.com
“We'll just start walking today and see the world and the way the world walks around and talks, the way it really looks. I want to see everything now. And while none of it well be me when it goes in, after a while it'll all gather together inside and it'll be me. Look at the world out there, my God,…”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“We have everything we need to be happy but we aren't happy. Something is missing... It is not books you need, it's some of the things that are in books. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“And some days, he went on, were days of hearing every trump and trill of the universe. Some days were good for tasting and some for touching. And some days were good for all the senses at once.”— Ray Bradbury, amazon.com
“What does it matter how many lovers you have if none of them gives you the universe?”— Jacques Lacan, goodreads.com
“Speechless and cold the stars arise on the small garden where we have dominion.”— Richard Wilbur, ibiblio.org
“Contrary to some of our great myths, the universe was not created once upon a time, but rather is constantly being created and re-created.”— Deepak Chopra, amazon.com
“I like the stars. It's the illusion of permanence, I think. I mean, they're always flaring up and caving in and going out. But from here, I can pretend... I can pretend that things last. I can pretend that lives last longer than moments.”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at the stars because we are human?”— Neil Gaiman, amazon.com
“If there's any real truth, it's that the entire multidimensional infinity of the Universe is almost certainly being run by a bunch of maniacs.”— Douglas Adams, amazon.com
“You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring itself.”— Alan Watts, amazon.com
“The universe, I'd learned, was never, ever kidding. It would take whatever it wanted and it would never give it back.”— Cheryl Strayed, amazon.com
“There will come a day when all that seems permanent now will be a distant memory. Time is a very powerful thing and change is a unavoidable concept, but you will always be who you are, even if it is different to who you were way back then. Fighting change will not stop it happening, let your mind re…”— Amy Kennedy, satiricalwords.tumblr.com
“We are all just waiting for another universe to collide with ours, to change what we can’t ourselves. To fill us, to make us whole. It’s interesting how afterwards, we realize that the storm returns to calm, but the stars are always changed and we don’t choose whose collisions change us.”— Brianna Wiest, thoughtcatalog.com
“There is one irrefutable law of the universe: We are each responsible for our own life.”— Oprah Winfrey, amazon.com
“Paradox as it may seem, we likewise find life meaningful only when we have seen that it is without purpose, and know the 'mystery of the universe' only when we are convinced that we know nothing about it at all.”— Alan W. Watts, amazon.com