Quotes added on Friday, September 19 2014
I wanna be with you forever.
I want you right here beside me forever
~ Pooh
I want you right here beside me forever
~ Pooh
“Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home.
That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone
you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their
lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of
confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every
hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and
destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young
couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor
and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician,
every "superstar," every "supreme leader,"
every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there-on
a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.”
― Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Positive Power can inspire; Negative Power can perspire. Which
power are you on?-RVM
i look in the mirror
and see a girl.
she looks and talks just like me.
but when life decides to take a dramatic whirl,
is my reflection the same as can be?
my reflection smiles and laughs a lot
she doesn't let anything get to her.
everyone thinks she's quiet, but her friends know she's not
but there's something that one doesn't infer.
when she gets upset, she doesn't say a word.
she keeps her mouth shut with her friends
because they have learned
even my happiness ends.
so really, who am i?
i can be super happy, but if could you read my mind?
you'd cry. (nm)
she looks and talks just like me.
but when life decides to take a dramatic whirl,
is my reflection the same as can be?
my reflection smiles and laughs a lot
she doesn't let anything get to her.
everyone thinks she's quiet, but her friends know she's not
but there's something that one doesn't infer.
when she gets upset, she doesn't say a word.
she keeps her mouth shut with her friends
because they have learned
even my happiness ends.
so really, who am i?
i can be super happy, but if could you read my mind?
you'd cry. (nm)
