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“Awe is the feeling of being in the presence of something vast that transcends your current understanding of the world.”
― Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
― Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
“If we burn our wings / Flying too close to the sun / If the moment of glory / Is over before it's begun / If the dream is won / Though everything is lost / We will pay the price / But we will not count the cost”
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“Tears, then, arise when we perceive vast things that unite us into community.”
― Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
― Awe: The New Science of Everyday Wonder and How It Can Transform Your Life
“The purpose of a relationship is not to fix us, or heal us, or to make us whole and happy; it is to show us where we need fixing and what parts of us are still broken, and perhaps the most brutal of all: that nobody can do this work, or make us happy, but ourselves.”
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
― 101 Essays That Will Change The Way You Think
“It's a nice big fat philosophical question, about: how do you get through? Sometimes you don't survive whole, you just survive in part. But the grandeur of life is that attempt. It's not about that solution. It is about being as fearless as one can, and behaving as beautifully as one can, under completely impossible circumstances. It's that, that makes it elegant. Good is just more interesting, more complex, more demanding. Evil is silly, it may be horrible, but at the same time it's not a compelling idea. It's predictable. It needs a tuxedo, it needs a headline, it needs blood, it needs fingernails. It needs all that costume in order to get anybody's attention. But the opposite, which is survival, blossoming, endurance, those things are just more compelling intellectually if not spiritually, and they certainly are spiritually. This is a more fascinating job. We are already born, we are going to die. So you have to do something interesting that you respect in between.”
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