Truly - Quotes
We are only truly alive in those moments when we improvise; no schedule, just small surprises and stimuli from the environment.
Happiness is within. It has nothing to do with how much applause you get or how many people praise you. Happiness comes when you believe that you have done something truly meaningful.
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise.
You can never pinpoint the exact moment that a species came to be, because it never did. Just like how you used to be a baby and now you're older, but there was no single day when you went to bed young and woke up old. (...) There was no first human. It sounds like a paradox, it sounds like it breaks the whole theory of evolution, but it's really a key to truly understanding how evolution works. Evolution happens like a movie, with frames moving by both quickly and gradually, and we often can't see the change while it's occurring. Every time we find a fossil, it's a snapshot back in time, often with thousands of frames missing in between, and we're forced to reconstruct the whole film. Life is what happens in between the snapshots. Instead of a nice smooth road this is a journey on stepping stones and we give each one their own name.
Mistakes are not just opportunities for learning; they are, in an important sense, the only opportunity for learning or making something truly new.
Gifts of time and love are surely the basic ingredients of a truly merry Christmas.
When two people are truly meant to be, they love equally. Differently - but still equally.
Let`s tell the truth to people. When people ask, `How are you?` have the nerve sometimes to answer truthfully. You must know, however, that people will start avaoiding you because, they, too, have knees that pain them and heads that hurt and they don`t want to know about yours. But think of it this way: If people avoid you, you will have more time to meditate and do fine research on a cure for whatever truly afflicts you.
One of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.
Men who are truly generous are always ready to compassionate when the misfortune of their enemy surpasses the limits of their hatred.