"Once you can accept the universe as..." - Quote by Albert Einstein
Once you can accept the universe as matter expanding into nothing that is something, wearing stripes with plaid comes easy.
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“A man has to work so hard so that something of his personality stays alive. A tomcat has it so easy, he has only to spray and his presence is there for years on rainy days.”
“Education is what remains after one has forgotten what one has learned in school.”
“Imagination is vastly more important than intelligence.”
More on Acceptance
“So it ends as I guessed it would,' his thoughts said, even as it fluttered away; and it laughed a little within him ere it fled, almost gay it seemed to be casting off all doubt and care and fear. And even as it winged away into forgetfulness it heard voices, and they seemed to be crying in some forgotten world far above: 'The eagles are coming! The eagles are coming!' For one moment more Pippin's thought hovered. "Bilbo! But no! That came in his tale, long long ago. This is my tale, and it ended now. Good-bye!' And his thought fled far away and his eyes saw no more.”
“The stone that is thrown into the air is none the worse for falling down, and none the better for going up.”
“We need to not be in denial about what we've done, what we've come through. It will help us if we all do that.”
More on Perspective
“'Well,' said Red Jacket [to someone complaining that he had not enough time], 'I suppose you have all there is.'”
“He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.”
“When you reflect, you are able to put an experience into perspective... reflective thinking enables you to distance yourself from the intense emotions of particularly good or bad experiences and see them with fresh eyes.”