The vast distances that separate the stars are providential. Beings and worlds are quarantined from one another. The quarantine is lifted only for those with sufficient self-knowledge and judgment to have safely traveled from star to star.”--Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
Tag: Quotes
"In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration."--Ansel Adams
"Most people...are like a falling leaf that drifts and turns in the air, flutters, and falls to the ground. But a few others are like stars which travel one defined path: no wind reaches them, they have within themselves their guide and path."--Hermann Hesse
"No, no! The adventures first, explanations take such a dreadful time!"--Lewis Carroll, Through the Looking Glass
"There will always be those who feel more comfortable not venturing from the warmth of the hearth, but there are those who prefer to look out the window and wonder what is beyond the horizon."--Jimmy Buffett, A Salty Piece of Land
"I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.'I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!"--J.R.R. Tolkien, The Hobbit
"The purpose of life is to live it, to taste experience to the utmost, to reach out eagerly and without fear for newer and richer experience"--Eleanor Roosevelt
“If I'm an advocate for anything, it's to move. As far as you can, as much as you can. Across the ocean, or simply across the river. The extent to which you can walk in someone else's shoes or at least eat their food, it's a plus for everybody. Open your mind, get up off [...]
"Yet all experience is an arch wherethrough Gleams that untraveled world whose margin fades Forever and forever when I move. How dull it is to pause, to make an end, To rust unburnished, not to shine in use! As though to breathe were life!"--Lord Alfred Tennyson
"Let us step into the night and pursue that flighty temptress, adventure."--J.K. Rowling, harry potter and the half blood prince