"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."

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"Life does more than adapt to the Earth. It changes the Earth to its own purposes."

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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

Personal Development

"And there wasn't anything he wanted to do that he couldn't make time for. What did he have to mope about, really? What more did he want? Love, he could hear Eve saying. Purpose. Love. Purpose. Those are the things that you can't plan for. Those are the things that just happen. And what if they don't happen? Do you spend your whole life pining for them? Waiting to be happy?"

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Love, Purpose, Desire

"Eleanor had never thought about killing herself " ever " but she thought a lot about stopping."

Rainbow Rowell, American Author

Life, Thought, End, Emotion

"The modern meaning of life's end-when does it end? How does it end? How should it end? What is the value of life? How do we measure it?"

Don DeLillo, American Novelist

Life, End, Meaning, Measure

"No man enjoys the true taste of life, but he who is ready and willing to quit it."

Seneca, Roman Philosopher

Life, Man, Taste

"An artist is he for whom the goal and center of life is to form his mind."

Karl Schlegel, German Philosopher

Life, Goal, Artist, Mind

"Her pupils were at once her salvation and her despair. They gave her the means of supporting life, but they made life hardly worth supporting."

P. G. Wodehouse, English Writer

Life, Despair, Salvation, Worth

"The question isn't who will be with me in life, rather how will I create the ending I am proud of?"

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Creation, Truth, Wisdom

"To say something great, you must first stop trying to say something great! Sometimes struggling is an obstacle to reach the target! Flow like a river, calmly, naturally, enjoying the present moment, without thinking of the ocean and finally you will be there!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Life, Inspirational, Wisdom, Truth, Power

"If you have never met a woman that would never give up, then you have never met a woman that has seen miracles."

Shannon L. Alder, American Author

Life, Faith, Truth, Happiness, Wisdom

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"Evolution is a tightly coupled dance, with life and the material environment as partners. From the dance emerges the entity Gaia."

Life

"You mustn't take what I say as gospel because no one can second-guess the future."

Future

"China will soon emit more greenhouse gases than America, but its regime knows if it caps aspirations there will be a revolution."

America

"I suspect any worries about genetic engineering may be unnecessary. Genetic mutations have always happened naturally, anyway."

Engineering

"If it hadn't been for the Cold War, neither Russia nor America would have been sending people into space."

War

"There is little evidence that our individual intelligence has improved through recorded history."

History

"For each of our actions there are only consequences."

Action

"Geological change usually takes thousands of years to happen but we are seeing the climate changing not just in our lifetimes but also year by year."

Change

"If you start any large theory, such as quantum mechanics, plate tectonics, evolution, it takes about 40 years for mainstream science to come around. Gaia has been going for only 30 years or so."

Science

"NASA will send up a big sun shade that will be in orbit between the earth and sun and deflect 2 or 3 percent of the sunshine back into space. It would be cheaper than the international space station."

Earth