Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them

quotes that are too good to ignore.....

The important thing is this: to be able at any moment to sacrifice what we are for what we could become.

-- Charles Du Bos

We spend most of our time and energy in a kind of horizontal thinking. We move along the surface of things [but] there are times when we stop. We sit still. We lose ourselves in a pile of leaves or its memory. We listen and breezes from a whole other world begin to whisper.

-- James Carroll

We've always been here and we'll always be here. We are a specific arrangement of particles and this instant is infinite. Did we luck out, or didn't we? The odds against this sentence having ever being typed, much less the odds against you reading it were inconceivable. Smile, because the fact that you're able to is almost impossible to comprehend.

-- Jeffrey Rowland, Sound! 12-22-05