Robert

“Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free. Over time, some have determined that the only way to live is to die. In death, a man or a woman is free of the weight of the past [and the future].”
― Alan Lightman, Einstein’s Dreams

“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart.”
― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl

“Study without desire spoils the memory, and it retains nothing that it takes in.”
― Leonardo da Vinci

“When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world.”
― John Muir