Fahrenheit 451 Instant Gratification Quotes & Sayings

To become an astronaut, someone has to have a dream of his own to do something that he or she has always wanted to do, then commit himself to making that dream come true. — Eugene Cernan

I'm helped by a gentle notion from Buddhist psychology, that there are "near enemies" to every great virtue - reactions that come from a place of care in us, and which feel right and good, but which subtly take us down an ineffectual path. Sorrow is a near enemy to compassion and to love. It is borne of sensitivity and feels like empathy. But it can paralyze and turn us back inside with a sense that we can't possibly make a difference. The wise Buddhist anthropologist and teacher Roshi Joan Halifax calls this a "pathological empathy" of our age. In the face of magnitudes of pain in the world that come to us in pictures immediate and raw, many of us care too much and see no evident place for our care to go. But compassion goes about finding the work that can be done. Love can't help but stay present — Krista Tippett

Moms never get out of the kid business. Last time I checked, motherhood had no expiration date. — Lisa Scottoline

... where I walked, the frost shaped itself to my will, dancing in the air like music over water. — Eugie Foster

The earth is, like our own skin, fated to carry the scars of ancient wounds. — Fernand Braudel