Relaying Message Quotes

#1. The light enkindled by human kindness and love can give human life a brilliance and luster that will never be extinguished.

Steve Centola

#2. Despite our strongly felt kinship and oneness with nature, all the evidence suggests that nature doesn't care one whit about us. Tornadoes, hurricanes, floods, earthquakes and volcanic eruptions happen without the slightest consideration for human inhabitants.

Alan Lightman

#3. To an unmoored, middle-aged man like myself, it was heart-breaking. That's all right. I like to have my heart broken.

Kurt Vonnegut

#4. Having my brain doing different work is helping me a lot in terms of retro-feeding from the other experiences. It makes me feel inspired, looking forward to the projects and wanting to work harder.

Kelly Sue DeConnick

#5. I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine.

Oliver Goldsmith

#6. The thing about Shakespeare is you can only read his books if someone is making you.

Gabrielle Zevin

#7. Love is like a mirror. When you love another you become his mirror and he becomes yours ... And reflecting each other's love you see infinity.

Leo Buscaglia

#8. I love to see the bud bursting into maturity; I love to mark the deepening tints with which the beams of heaven paint the expanded flower; nay, with a melancholy sort of pleasure, I love to watch that progress towards decay, so endearingly bespeaking a fellowship in man's transient glory

Charlotte Elizabeth Tonna

#9. America has long raised political and cultural cognitive dissonance to an art form. We are capable of living with enormous inequality and injustice while convincing ourselves that we are in fact moving toward what Churchill called the "broad, sun-lit uplands."

Jon Meacham

#10. Seeing the sky darken & the fields
turn brown & the lake lead-grey
as some enormous scrap of sheet metal
& wind grabs the world around the equator
I am most thankful then for knowing about
the little gold hairs on your belly

Al Purdy

#11. Rome is possibly my favorite city in the world. I have such fond memories there - most of them food related.

Mallory Jansen

#12. Hopes are but the dreams of those that wake.

Matt Prior

#13. Rock is ironic in that, up to a certain point, you can get better and better at it if you don't mind possibly looking more and more ridiculous.

Henry Rollins

#14. Environmental policy must strike a balance between the earth's best interests and our citizen's pressing needs.

Jim Clyburn

#15. Elias Canetti once tried to imagine a world in which 'all weapons [were] abolished and in the next war only biting [was] allowed'. Can we be sure there would be no genocides in such a radically disarmed world?

Niall Ferguson