— Emahoy Tsegué-Maryam Guèbrou, an Ethiopian nun, composer and pianist
A study on aging by a sociologist at the University of Chicago found that happiness levels tended to rise rather than fall with old age. One of the main reasons cited? Lower expectations and more acceptance of the way things were
— Dr. Sheri Jacobson
When you believe in things
That you don’t understand,
Then you suffer,
— Stevie Wonder from Superstition
Your desires would diminish drastically if you didn’t need to impress anyone
—Derren Brown
You see, humans exist between two infinities … one of events stretching into the past … and one of events extending into the future. This is what our reason tells us. We have no insight into why things are this way. Or why we appeared when we did in this infinite chain … What we do in the face of this knowledge is what defines us … meaning starts here
— From a lecture by a philosophy professor as told in the book “How to think like a woman: Four women philosophers who taught me how to love the life of the mind
Man is equally incapable of seeing the nothingness from which he emerges and the infinity in which he is engulfed
— Blaise Pascal