Lights Of Appreciation Quotes & Sayings

People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve. — Sam Altman

Their drift away from others produced a selfish privacy and they had lost the refuge and the consolation of a clan. Baptists, Presbyterians, tribe, army, family, some encircling outside thing was needed. Pride, she thought. Pride alone made them think that they needed only themselves, could shape life that way, like Adam and Eve, like gods from nowhere beholden to nothing except their own creations. She should have warned them, but her devotion cautioned against impertinence. As long as Sir was alive it was easy to veil the truth: that they were not a family-not even a like-minded group. They were orphans, each and all. — Toni Morrison

He takes the view that mornings happen to other people. I think I once saw him at breakfast, although possibly it was just someone who looked a bit like him who was lying with their head in the plate of baked beans. He likes good sushi, and quite likes people, too, although not raw; he is kind to fans who are not total jerks, and enjoys talking to people who know how to talk. He doesn't look as though he's forty; that may have happened to someone else, too. Or perhaps there's special picture locked in his attic. — Terry Pratchett

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death. — Stanislav Grof

We and all our existences are non-entities. Thou art the absolute being whose appearance is transitory. — Idries Shah

The true joy of a moonlit night is something we no longer understand. Only the men of old, when there were no lights, could understand the true joy of a moonlit night. — Yasunari Kawabata

And the rain was brain colored
and the thunder sounded like something remembering something. — Stan Rice