“Mankind likes to put questions of origins and beginnings out of its mind.”  --Friedrich Nietzsche

"Life is a collection of moments. Mindfulness is beautification of the moments."  --Amit Ray

"Some people underestimate how erotic it is to be understood."  --Mary Rakow

“Mankind likes to put questions of origins and beginnings out of its mind.”  --Friedrich Nietzsche 

"Nice is different than good."  --Stephen Sondheim 

"Optimism is a perfectly legitimate response to failure."  --Stephen King 

“What I like my music to do to me is awaken the ghosts inside of me. Not the demons, you understand, but the ghosts.”--  David Bowie

 Mexican saying: El que se enoja pierde  = He who gets angry, loses. 

"Everything's got a moral, if only you can find it."  --Lewis Carroll

"As Alice makes her journey through Wonderland in Lewis Carroll’s beloved 1865 children’s story “Alice's Adventures in Wonderland,” the young girl comes upon an unpleasant Duchess, described as having a sharp and pointy chin. To Alice’s discomfort, the Duchess rests her chin on the child’s shoulder and shares this bit of wisdom. If a bizarre old Duchess can uncover lessons and meaning in the topsy-turvy world of Wonderland, we’re sure to find them in our own lives, too, on this side of the looking glass."  --inspiringquotes.com  

"Mankind was not made to suffer. Bliss is our nature."  --David Lynch

"We live on a fragile island of life, in a universe of possibilities. For many millennia, humans have been on a journey to find answers, answers to questions about naturalism and transcendence, about who we are and why we are, and of course, who else might be out there. Is it really just us? Are we alone in this vast universe of energy and matter and chemistry and physics? Well, if we are, it’s an awful waste of space. But, what if we’re not?

"What if, out there, others are asking and answering similar questions? What if they look up at the night sky, at the same stars, but from the opposite side? Would the discovery of an older cultural civilization out there inspire us to find ways to survive our increasingly uncertain technological adolescence? Might it be the discovery of a distant civilization and our common cosmic origins that finally drives home the message of the bond among all humans? Whether we're born in San Francisco, or Sudan, or close to the heart of the Milky Way galaxy, we are the products of a billion-year lineage of wandering stardust. We, all of us, are what happens when a primordial mixture of hydrogen and helium evolves for so long that it begins to ask where it came from."  --Excerpt from Jill Tarter's 2009 TED Talk (2009 TED Prize winner)