The Spark Between

I was looking through an old file of quotes on my laptop this evening. I'm not entirely sure what I was in search of, nor that I found it, but it did bring to mind some quotes I really like, and some things I need to think about again these days. Mostly so I don't forget them, but also to set them out for you to ponder as well, here are a few:

There are many degrees of sight and many degrees of blindness. What senses do we lack that we cannot see another world all around us?

-Frank Herbert

Love does not begin and end the way
we seem to think it does.
Love is a battle, love is a war;
love is a growing up.

Love takes off masks that we fear
we cannot live without and know we
cannot live within.

- James Baldwin

"We live in a society exquisitely dependent on science and techology, in which hardly anyone knows anything about science and technology."

- Carl Sagan

Love what you do. Get good at it. Competence is a rare commodity in this day and age.

- Jon Stewart

Many a man is praised for his reserve and so-called shyness when he is simply too proud to risk making a fool of himself.

-J. B. Priestley

Ow... Priestley, that was a little close to home.

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimensions.

- Oliver Wendell Holmes