chirysalis’s Reviews > Orbital > Status Update

"...their beauty doesn’t come from their goodness, [...] and a person is not beautiful because they’re good, they’re beautiful because they’re alive, like a child. Alive and curious and restless. Never mind good. They’re beautiful because there’s a light in their eyes. Sometimes destructive, sometimes hurtful, sometimes selfish, but beautiful because alive. And progress is like that, by its nature alive."

"But when it comes to what got them here, what motives and desires, those things are behind them. They’ve got here, is what they think. You get here and your life starts anew and everything you brought along you brought in your head, and unless it’s needed it stays in your head because this is it now. This is home."

"The earth, from here, is like heaven. [...] When we're on that planet we look up and think heaven is elsewhere, but here is what the astronauts and cosmonauts sometimes think: maybe all of us born to it have already died and are in an afterlife. If we must go to an improbable, hard-to-believe-in place when we die, that glassy, distant orb with its beautiful lonely light shows could well be it."

another one that i know i will love