With every inhale, you are stepping into something far more expansive than it appears. The human nose can distinguish at least one trillion different scents, a number so large it feels slightly mischievous, like it’s challenging the imagination on purpose. That means your sense of smell is operating on a scale that surpasses the estimated 100 to 400 billion stars in the Milky Way galaxy. Your nose is keeping up with the cosmos!
Great talents are the most lovely and often the most dangerous fruits on the tree of humanity. They hang upon the most slender twigs that are easily snapped off. ~ Carl Jung
Until we invent telepathy, books are our best choice for understanding the rest of humanity. ~ Christopher Paolini
How strange that the nature of life is change, yet the nature of human beings is to resist change. And how ironic that the difficult times we fear might ruin us are the very ones that break us open and help us blossom into who we were meant to be. ~ Elizabeth Lesser
Just be yourself, because no one is like you. If you’re a little weird, own it. The right people will like you for it.
Unexpected kindness is the most powerful, least costly, and most underrated agent of human change. ~ Bob Kerrey
It’s normal to:
Be sad from time to time for no reason.
Not have everything together.
Feel unsure, confused, or not know.
Feel ugly some days and cute other days.
Have been unprepared for how things turned out.
Have tough days.
Not always be happy.
Fluctuate in Weight.
Be more productive on some days and less on others.
The human eye is so sensitive that if the earth were flat and it was a dark night, a candle’s flame could be seen from 30 miles away.
Once we believe in ourselves, we can risk curiosity, wonder, spontaneous delight, or any experience that reveals the human spirit. ~ e. e. cummings
An elephant’s brain reacts the same way that a human’s brain reacts to puppies. They think we’re cute!