Think if You would live billions of years. Fifteen billions. What would your thought process look like? Would you worry about those ants on this piece of rock going about their affairs, with a lifespan of one minute in your terms? Or the fine details of their lives - their worries, mishaps, etc? It would be more difficult to follow us than for us trying to count the number of wing flaps of a fly. So I wouldn't. I bet You wouldn't either.

"We're born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the illusion for the moment that we're not alone." - Orson Welles

"Anyone who makes up their mind about an issue before they hear the issue is a fool." - Chris Rock

This basically applies to "expectations vs reality" as well. So I am a damn fool.

"Women are made to be loved not understood." - Oscar Wilde

Why is this under category "humour"? I think its true.

"Joy is what happens to us when we allow ourselves to recognize how good things really are." - Marianne Williamson

When i look back at the path we have walked, and I look ahead, I am glad that we have just started and there is so much to look forward to.

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." - Carl Jung

"Ultimately love is everything." - Scott Peck

"You are my best friend as well as my lover, and I do not know which side of you I enjoy the most. I treasure each side, just as I have treasured our life together." - Nicholas Sparks

This is truly beautiful.

"Accuracy is the twin brother of honesty; inaccuracy, of dishonesty." - Nathaniel Hawthorne

"We can live without religion and meditation, but we cannot survive without human affection." - Dalai Lama

"You have to go on and be crazy. Craziness is like heaven." - Jimi Hendrix

"If you live to be a hundred, I want to live to be a hundred minus one day so I never have to live without you." - Alan A. Milne

Sorry dude, thats bloody egoistic of you.

"Live for yourself and you will live in vain;Live for others, and you will live again." - Bob Marley

“There are two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle.”  – Albert Einstein

"If you're really spiritual, then you should be totally independent of the good and the bad opinions of the world... you should have faith in yourself." - Deepak Chopra

“I no longer have the energy for meaningless friendships, forced interactions or unnecessary conversations. If we don’t vibrate on the same frequency there’s just no reason for us to waste our time. I’d rather have no one and wait for substance than to not feel someone and fake the funk.” - Joquesse Eugenia

"Whether one believes in a religion or not, and whether one believes in rebirth or not, there isn't anyone who doesn't appreciate kindness and compassion." - Dalai Lama

"Imperfection is beauty, madness is genius and it's better to be absolutely ridiculous than absolutely boring." - Marilyn Monroe

"Beer: The cause of, and solution to, all of life's problems." - Homer Simpson

"Unless you make a daily effort to see the world as God sees it, you will never get beyond mere appearances." - Michel Quoist

"We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect." - Anais Nin

"To give pleasure to a single heart by a single act is better than a thousand heads bowing in prayer." - Mohandas Gandhi

"Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people." - Eleanor Roosevelt

"We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature - trees, flowers, grass- grows in silence; see the stars, the moon and the sun, how they move in silence... We need silence to be able to touch souls." - Mother Teresa

Why are we addicted to information? Maybe we are specially addicted to technology-enabled information? Hopefully we'll end up where we started - consuming the beauty and uniqueness of nature, which is also a stream of information. We'll just have to (re-)learn the langugage.

http://www.businessinsider.com/why-were-addicted-to-information-2012-7
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/are-we-addicted-to-inform/
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/brain-wise/201209/why-were-all-addicted-texts-twitter-and-google

"Perhaps curiosity itself, the need to know, is a form of addiction, making us race to the end of a good mystery novel, or driving scientists to work day and night until they discover insulin, say, or decode the structure of DNA, scientific breakthrough being the ultimate hit of information. When the Theory of General Relativity dawned on Einstein, he must have had the mother of all dopamine rushes."

Three articles later, it turns out I am wrong, just about any information will do.
I still think my ultimate dopamine rush is true love. We'll see.

"Lisa, if you don't like your job you don't strike. You just go in every day and do it really half-assed. That's the American way." - Homer Simpson

"Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense." - Buddha

"Real magic in relationships means an absence of judgement of others." - Wayne Dyer

We tend to apply our expectation gaps also to relationships - thats why it is increasingly harder to find someone to connect with.

Inspired by: Why we're unhappy -- the expectation gap | Nat Ware | TEDxKlagenfurt

"Those who make us suffer are not worth it. Those who are worth it would never make us suffer." - Unknown

You are what you listen to. Double checked.

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/you-are-what-you-listen-to
https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/curious/201405/you-are-what-you-listen

"Some people feel the rain. Others just get wet." - Bob Marley

"The true value of the human being is determined by the degree to which he or she is free of self." - Albert Einstein