“If you are the body, you are in terrible trouble! One small microbe will destroy it one day, if not an accident. You have but a short time to live in this world.” IfsWorldBodySufferingTroubleThis WorldTerribleOne DayAccidentsShort TimeMicrobes Author:Frederick Lenz
“It's no accident that new ideas pop into our heads when we least expect it. In our enthusiasm to be productive, we forget to give our mind/body moments to be "receptive" - that is, open to daydreaming, open to letting our minds wander.” GivingMindIdeasMomentsBodyForgetPopsAccidentsEnthusiasmWanderProductiveNew IdeasDaydreamingReceptiveMind Body Author:Linda Stone
“There are no accidents in Nature. Every motion of the constantly shifting bodies in the world is timed to the occasion for some definite, fore-ordered end. The flowers blossom in obedience to the same law that marks the course of constellations, and the song of a bird is the echo of a universal symphony. Nature is one, and to me the greatest delight of observation and study is to discover new unities in this all-embracing and eternal harmony.” WorldEndsBodyLawSongCoursesStudyFlowerEternalBirdUniversalMarkHarmonyUnityDelightAccidentsObservationOccasionsObedienceEchoesDefiniteShiftingSymphonyConstellationsFlower Blossom Author:John Muir
“I'm not only my spirit buy my body, and who can decide how much I, my individual self, am conditioned by the accident of my body? Would Byron have been Byron but for his club foot, or Dostoyevsky Dostoyevsky without his epilepsy?” Has BeensSelfBodySpiritIndividualFeetClubsAccidentsDostoyevskyByronEpilepsy Author:W. Somerset Maugham
“The plot of a movie is its motor. It is not an accident that people call pictures 'vehicles' for stars. A vehicle has to move. A plotless story is like an expensive car with a wonderful body design, luxurious seats, upholstery, headlights (production, direction, cast) - and no motor under its hood. That is why it gets nowhere.” PeopleStoriesBodyMovingStarsWonderfulCarDesignCastsProductionsAccidentsMovieSeatsExpensivePlotVehicleMotorHoodLuxuriousHeadlightsUpholsteryExpensive Cars Book:Letters of Ayn Rand Source: Letters of Ayn Rand
“I love books the way I love nature. ... I can imagine now that a time will come, that it is almost upon us, when no one will love books ... It is no accident, I think, that books and nature (as we know it) may disappear simultaneously from human experience. There is no mind-body split.” ThinkingKnowsWayMindHumansMayI CanBookBodyNatureImagineAccidentsDisappearSplitsHuman ExperienceMind BodyNature Love Author:Andrea Dworkin