To have a great trip, head toward an interest rather than to a place. Travel to passions rather than destinations. - Kevin Kelly

if Earth is reduced to the size of a bacteria, and inspected under high-powered optics, would it seem stranger than a virus?

As we turn from the galaxies to the swarming cells of our own being, which toil for something, some entity beyond their grasp, let us remember man, the self-fabricator who came across an ice age to look into the mirrors and magic of science. Surely he did not come to see himself or his wild visage only. He came because he is at heart a listener and a searcher for some transcendent realm beyond himself.

The real test of your character
is not how you deal with adversity — although that will teach you much. The real test is how you deal with power. The only cure for power is humility
and the admission that
your power comes from luck. The small person believes they are superior;
the superior person knows they are lucky.