Well - Quotes
I`m interested in people`s darker side, the ones that aren`t easy and well balanced. The cracks.
Under a welfare state there is always the danger that adults as well as children will believe in Santa Claus.
Once when I was lost, I saw a policeman, and asked him to help me find my parents. I said to him, "Do you think we`ll ever find them?" He said, "I don`t know kid. There are so many places they can hide."
You ask me what I want this year, And I try to make this kind and clear Just a chance that maybe we`ll find better days Cause I don`t need boxes wrapped in strings And designer love and empty things. Just a chance that maybe we`ll find better days
Once basic human needs for food/shelter/health care/education/social justice are fairly well met, people lose their need for religion.
I`m angry that when people run for political office in the United States, it`s considered legitimate to grill them about their employment background, their positions on legislation, their positions on social issues, the taxes they`ve paid [...]... but it`s considered invasive and intolerant to ask if they believe in talking snakes, demonic possession, magic underwear, magic crackers that turn into the flesh of their god, an Earth that was created 6,000 years ago, or a god who put himself on Earth in human form and then sacrificed himself to himself to atone for sins that other people committed and to save humanity from the punishment he himself was planning to dole out. If someone is going to make decisions about science funding, emerging medical technology, our educational system, and so on... I think it matters if they believe any of that shit, and I bloody well want to know about it.
Mistakes are part of the game. It`s how well you recover from them, that`s the mark of a great player.
To live is to choose. But to choose well, you must know who you are and what you stand for, where you want to go and why you want to get there.
It makes no sense to spend some of the precious time we have now, when we are well, consumed with worry about what might be when we are not well. Worse, using that energy worrying robs us of the energy we need to heal ourselves.
It is impossible to work and function well without love and joy being experienced.
Decisions are the endless uncertainties of life that we`ll not know if they`re right until the very end, so do the best you can and hope its right.
It is well known that theoretical physicists cannot handle experimental equipment; it breaks whenever they touch it. Pauli was such a good theoretical physicist that something usually broke in the lab whenever he merely stepped across the threshold.
People often say that motivation doesn`t last. Well, neither does bathing - that`s why we recommend it daily.
The things that go well are largely unintended; the things that go badly are largely intended.