Perfection
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-Antoine de Saint Exupéry
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Wed, 14 Jul 2010
Courage.
“I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.” -Wilde
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Either/Or
“It is absurd to divide people into good and bad. People are either charming or tedious.”
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Tolerance.
“The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius.”
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Most People
“Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” -Wilde
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
His Punishment.
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.” -Wilde
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
Opportunities
“You will have many opportunities in life to keep your mouth shut: You should take advantage of every one of them.” -Thomas A. Edison
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Thu, 8 Jul 2010
The Grand essentials of happiness are:
something to do, something to love, and something to hope for.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Sat, 13 Jun 2009
Look again at that dot.
"That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar," every "supreme leader," every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there – on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.
The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.
Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.
The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.
It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known." -Carl Sagan
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Mon, 1 Jun 2009
Some days I feel this isn't unlikely
“Maybe this world is another planets hell.”
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Tue, 19 May 2009
Thanks to Imaginary Foundation
“I would rather have a mind opened by wonder than one closed by belief.”
“Only when we are no longer afraid do we begin to live.”
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Tue, 12 May 2009
After I'm dead,
I’d rather have people ask why I have no monument than why I have one.
— Marcus Porcius Cato
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Mon, 20 Apr 2009
Life...
can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Sun, 19 Apr 2009
Affectionate, adj.:
Addicted to being a nuisance. The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Sun, 19 Apr 2009
You possess a mind not merely twisted,
but actually sprained.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
love, v.:
I’ll let you play with my life if you’ll let me play with yours.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
Words to live by
“Never be led astray onto the path of virtue.”
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
Reality
is just a convenient measure of complexity.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
Some husbands are living proof
…that a woman can take a joke.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
VMS, n.:
The world’s foremost multi-user adventure game.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009
love, n.:
When you like to think of someone on days that begin with a morning.
Posted by Nathaniel Bannister on Fri, 17 Apr 2009