Wisdom Quote by Kim Stanley Robinson — Inspiring Words on Life, Love & Wisdom

“The word of God came down to man as rain to soil, and the result was mud, not clear water. (Bistami) Pg. 128”

“They lived like monkeys still, while their new god powers lay around them in the weeds.”

“If that’s the case, I understand why emotions are hard for you. You’ve numbed yourself to make room for the grief you carry.”

“When we search for "ourselves" in the eyes of others, we have imprisoned our own-selves in believing that our self-worth is nothing unless others validate who we are. Unless we approve of whom we are, what we are, and what we are capable of doing as an individual, only then we will have released "ourselves" from our own imprisonment. We are in charge of our own life's destiny and what we do and become can only be validated by our accomplishments and failures; not by what others may think of us.”

“When we venture in that unfamiliar sea, we trust blindly in those who guide us, believing that they know more than we do.”

“Or take this girl, for example. At a meeting just outside Paris, a fifteen-year-old girl came up to me and said that she'd been to see [The Double Life of] Véronique. She'd gone once, twice, three times and only wanted to say one thing really - that she realized that there is such a thing as a soul. She hadn't known before, but now she knew that the soul does exist. There's something very beautiful in that. It was worth making Véronique for that girl. It was worth working for a year, sacrificing all that money, energy, time, patience, torturing yourself, killing yourself, taking thousands of decisions, so that one young girl in Paris should realize that there is such a thing as a soul. It's worth it.”