My mum used to say to me, 'Spit on yer 'ands and take a fresh 'old. ' Keep going even if you have setbacks.
They always say they didn't. I never heard of one who said, 'You know, I deserve this. ' Never happens.
Books aren't written - they're rewritten. Including your own. It is one of the hardest things to accept, especially after the seventh rewrite hasn't quite done it.
Living systems are never in equilibrium. They are inherently unstable. They may seem stable, but they’re not. Everything is moving and changing. In a sense, everything is on the edge of collapse.
You think you can destroy the planet? What intoxicating vanity. . . . . We've been residents here for the blink of an eye. If we're gone tomorrow, the earth will not miss us.
Life is wonderful. It's a gift to be alive, to see the sun and breathe the air. And there isn't really anything else.
The purpose of life is to stay alive. Watch any animal in nature--all it tries to do is stay alive. It doesn't care about beliefs or philosophy. Whenever any animal's behavior puts it out of touch with the realities of its existence, it becomes exinct.
If faces were not alike, we could not distinguish men from beasts; if they were not different, we could not tell one man from another.
Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
In a lot of African music, the singers are just singing whatever they feel at the time - because the instrumentation is repetitive, they can come and go as they please. That's how we approach it. Not verse-chorus-verse.
Me, as a human, I never want to take away another human being's choices or lifestyles or anything.