If you can see a thing whole… it seems that it’s always beautiful. Planets, lives... But close up, a world’s all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life’s a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern. You need distance, interval. The way to see how beautiful the earth is, is to see it as the moon. The way to see how beautiful life is, is from the vantage point of death.

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Albert Einstein • Guy de Maupassant • Confucius • Voltaire • Henry David Thoreau • Friedrich Nietzsche • Mike Monteiro • Kurt D. Cobain • Zig Ziglar • Steven Wright • Anna Eleanor Roosevelt • anonymous • Martin Luther King Jr. • Marshall McLuhan • Theodor Seuss Geisel • Elwyn Brooks "E. B." White • Pablo Picasso • John Maeda • Winston Churchill • Kahlil Gibran • Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra • Annie Proulx • Anais Nin • Oscar Wilde

Ursula K. Le Guin

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