Astrid > Astrid's Quotes

“Tread softly,
Breathe peacefully,
Laugh hysterically.”
― Nelson Mandela”
― Nelson Mandela

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”
― Émile Zola

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”
― Henry David Thoreau, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers

“Still, there are times I am bewildered by each mile I have traveled, each meal I have eaten, each person I have known, each room in which I have slept. As ordinary as it all appears, there are times when it is beyond my imagination.”
― Jhumpa Lahiri, Interpreter of Maladies

“In the end, this is a difficult story to sum up. The making of the atomic bomb is one of history's most amazing examples of teamwork and genius and poise under pressure. But it's also the story of how humans created a weapon capable of wiping our species off the planet. It's a story with no end in sight.
And, like it or not, you're in it.”
― Steve Sheinkin, Bomb: The Race to Build—and Steal—the World's Most Dangerous Weapon

“You are what you eat eats.”
― Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto

“Always try to keep a patch of sky above your life.”
― Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way