Look again at that dot. That's here. That's home. That's us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every "superstar", every "supreme leader", every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there — on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate... Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves. It is up to us. It's been said that astronomy is a humbling, and, I might add, a character-building experience. To my mind, there is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly and compassionately with one another and to preserve and cherish that pale blue dot, the only home we've ever known.

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"God is cruel. Sometimes he makes you live."
-Stephen King

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What doesn't kill you makes you stronger

Lord Vetinari helped him up. "Our very lives depend on your appearing to be a stupid fat idiot," he hissed, putting Colon's fez back on his head.
"I ain't very good at acting, sir-"
"Good!"

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Have you considered dying?

That's not a quote. It's intended for Wings of Fire.

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Nope. The world deserves me.

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What crime could possibly warrant a punishment this severe?

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"Life is like a half glass of water, people care about what is missing but they dont see what they have got." from something I can't remember.

OANST are you always like this?

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Are you usually stupid? Short answer. Yes.

One raindrop raises the sea

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OANST, Here's a quote that you really need to keep in mind "If you dont have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all" oh and OANST, you have kids and i really do hope they are not as rude and insulting as you.

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I..I've never heard that. How magnificent. You could almost call it a....a...a golden rule.

"Eat shit and die"-unknown source

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And in this case, the thread has been flooded. Well done all of you.

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I can't bring myself to moderate this thread. I'm laughing too much. I'll call in Peter...