Attention

Attention is the real currency of social-media companies, and it can be mercilessly capricious, particularly among the most coveted demographic of all, youth.
--Matt Buchanan

Evidence

Faith asks people to consider that the evidence of their senses is wrong.
--T. M. Luhrmann

Our Age

Most of what we all hold dearest and cherish most, believing at this very moment, will be revealed at some future time to be merely a product of our age and our history and our understanding of reality.
--Ann Druyan

The Act

As far as your brain is concerned, the act of remembering is indeed very similar to the act of imagining the future.
--Dan Falk

Outweigh

To me it seems to be important to believe people to be good even if they tend to be bad, because your own joy and happiness in life is increased that way, and the pleasures of the belief outweigh the occasional disappointments.
--Isaac Asimov

No End

There is an illusion of "end," a stasis seemingly like death. But it is only an illusion. Everything, at this crucial point, lies in the attitude which we assume towards the moment.
--Henry Miller

Circuitous

People look into the future and expect that the forces of the present will unfold in a coherent and predictable way, but any examination of the past reveals that the circuitous routes of change are unimaginably strange.
--Rebecca Solnit

Realm of Time

There is a realm of time where the goal is not to have but to be, not to own but to give, not to control but to share, not to subdue but to be in accord.
--Abraham Heschel

Translated

All mankind is of one author, and is one volume; when one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language; and every chapter must be so translated.
--John Donne

The Muse

You're best when you're not in charge. The ego locks the muse.
--Robin Williams

Argue

Why do we argue? Life's so fragile, a successful virus clinging to a speck of mud, suspended in endless nothing.
―Alan Moore

Spirits

The artist alone sees spirits. But after he has told of their appearing to him, everybody sees them.
--Johann von Goethe

Change

Often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul.
--Pat Barker

Heart

Real fearlessness is the product of tenderness. It comes from letting the world tickle your heart, your raw and beautiful heart. You are willing to open up, without resistance or shyness, and face the world. You are willing to share your heart with others.
--Chögyam Trungpa

Security

The basic reality is that most of humanity has always heard a voice inside themselves telling them that the best path to security and safety is to love others and show generosity, and a counter voice that tells us that the only path to security is domination and control over others.
--Michael Lerner

Time

If you were to spend an hour alone with the loud tick of a clock, or better yet, if you could spend an hour completely alone with an hourglass, watching the sands of time quickly slip through that vessel, and realize that 100 years from now you and I will both be gone, then you would begin to appreciate that time is the only thing you really do have and that you alone can do anything you wish with the time that is yours.
--William J. Reilly

Worth

To have that sense of one's intrinsic worth which constitutes self-respect is potentially to have everything: the ability to discriminate, to love and to remain indifferent.
--Joan Didion

Above Water

I think I've only spent about ten percent of my energies on writing. The other ninety percent went to keeping my head above water.
--Katherine Anne Porter

Grace

Considering the potentially momentous nature of even the smallest decisions we make, we ought to be terrified and humbled, we ought to be filled with gratitude for every grace we receive.
--Dean Koontz

Play

To truly laugh, you must be able to take your pain and play with it.
--Charlie Chaplin