Realizations

Mine:

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but laziness is the father.

History is full of pregnant crimes and celibate perpetrators.

I never realized how hard it was to be human—until I met some people who were obviously failing at it.


Other people's realizations:


If we are not able to smile, then the world will not have peace. ~Thich Nhat Hanh

Once in a lifetime perhaps, one escapes the actual confines of the flesh. Once in a lifetime, if one is lucky, one so merges with sunlight and air and running water that whole eons, the eons that mountains and deserts know, might pass in a single afternoon without discomfort. The mind has sunk away to its beginnings among old roots and the obscure tricklings and movings that stir inanimate things. ~Loren Eiseley


“We need less luxury and waste in a few countries so there can be less poverty and hunger in a greater part of the world.” ~Fidel Castro

"Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without words and never stops at all" ~Unknown