“That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every 'superstar,' every 'supreme leader,' every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.”
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
― Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space
“Now I think it’s one of the most useless questions an adult can ask a child—What do you want to be when you grow up? As if growing up is finite. As if at some point you become something and that’s the end.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“Dominance, even the threat of it, is a form of dehumanization. It’s the ugliest kind of power.”
― Becoming
― Becoming
“On books and friends I spend my money;
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”
― Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
For stones and bricks I haven't any.”
― Rain in the Mountains: Notes from the Himalayas
Swati’s 2025 Year in Books
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