Dead, we are revealed in our true dimensions, and they are surprisingly modest. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
We have become, by the power of a glorious evolutionary accident called intelligence, the stewards of life's continuity on earth. We did not ask for this role, but we cannot abjure it. We may not be suited to it, but here we are. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
She thought about her life and how lost she’d felt for most of it. She thought about the way that all truths she’d been taught to consider valuable invariably conflicted with the world as it was actually lived. How could a person be so utterly lost, yet remain living? Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
For someone like myself in whom the ability to trust others is so cracked and broken that I am wretchedly timid and am forever trying to read the expression on people's faces. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life is fair. We all get the same nine-month shake in the box, and then the dice roll. Some people get a run of sevens. Some people, unfortunately, get snake-eyes. Its just how the world is. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
The world is moving so fast these days that the man who says it can't be done is generally interrupted by someone doing it. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
Life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>
...When you die, the energy that kept you alive filters into the people you loved. Did you know that? It's like a fire you've tended all your life, and the sparks are all scattered into the wind.... That's why we survive as long as we do, because the people who loved us keep us going. Jun 17, 2024 - Fabian Biese>