Thomas MacGillavry

“True beauty is something that attacks, overpowers, robs, and finally destroys.”
― Yukio Mishima

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

“If you are distressed by anything external, the pain is not due to the thing itself, but to your estimate of it; and this you have the power to revoke at any moment.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“However brief our time in the sun, if we waste a second of it, or
complain that it is dull or barren or (like a child) boring, couldn't
this be seen as a callous insult to those unborn trillions who will
never even be offered life in the first place?”
― Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion