December 2011
“Looking back it was all too much, but when you haven’t lived long, all you have...”
– Nicholson Baker on his early writing style (via)
“Once you get into heaven, are you in? I mean, can you just be a big dick in...”
– William K. Wolfrum
(via theories-of)
“Write hard and clear about what hurts. ”
– Ernest Hemingway (via modernhepburn)
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via alanarene)
“I’ve been 40 years discovering that the queen of all colors was black.”
– Auguste Renoir (via yama-bato)
“Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in...”
– Gustave Flaubert (via paintasyoulike)
“Your soul doesn’t care what you do for a living - and when your life is over,...”
– Neale Donald Walsch
via illuminatedbeing)
“I can’t go back to yesterday because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll, Alice in Wonderland (via ratak-monodosico)
“To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.”
– Samuel Beckett (1906-1989, Ireland) [via workman & itonaim] [Fr] (via artchipel)
“I am bewildered by the magnificence of your beauty and wish to see you with a...”
– Rumi (via lucifelle)
“Boredom is an instrument of social control. Power is the power to impose...”
– Saul Bellow (via thechocolatebrigade)
“I think that if you can turn off the mind and look only with the eyes,...”
– Ellsworth Kelly (via twinofmyself)
“Each one of us has the power to make others feel better or worse. Making others...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via turbogirl)
“Because nerds like us are allowed to be unironically enthusiastic about stuff....”
– John Green (via 7ns)
“There’s no such thing as not playing. Music has rests in it. So you’re on a rest...”
– Tom Waits (via austinkleon)
“I have always tried to make room for anything that wanted to come to me from...”
– Carl Jung (Thank you, zenhumanism)
“My working method has more often than not involved the subtraction of weight.”
– Italo Calvino, from the Lightness essay in Six Memos for the Next Millennium (viafrank reminded me of this essay, so I’m posting my own personal favorite quote from it.)
“The longer I live the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude,...”
– Charles Swindoll (via parkstepp)
“I used to think the worst thing in life was to end up all alone. It’s not. The...”
– Robin Williams (via bendingworld)
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi (via lastwaltzinvienna)
“It is a mistake for anyone to think he has lived too long in his old,...”
– whiskey river (via parkstepp)
“One of the tasks of true friendship is to listen compassionately and creatively...”
– John O’Donohue
(via misswallflower)
“What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are...”
– John Berger (via koltesagar)
“And Dante said angels have no need of memory for they have continuous...”
– Rosmarie Waldrop, from Blindsight (via proustitute)
“You desire to know the art of living, my friend? It is contained in one phrase:...”
– Henri Frederic Amiel, philosopher and writer (1821-1881)
“We are all in the same boat in a stormy sea, and we owe each other a terrible...”
– G. K. Chesterton quotes (English born Gabonese Critic, Essayist, Novelist and Poet, 1874-1936)
“Waiting is painful. Forgetting is painful. But not knowing which to do is the...”
– Paulo Coelho, By The River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept (via liquidnight)
“When a person is lucky enough to live inside a story, to live inside an...”
– Paul Auster (via asitwasmadetobe)
“These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones;...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson: Essays and Lectures (New York: Penguin, 1983), 270. (via crashinglybeautiful)
With thanks to crashinglybeautiful.
(via yama-bato)
“No one is useless in this world, who lightens the burdens of it for any one...”
– Charles Dickens, Our Mutual Friend (via liquidnight)
“Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live...”
– J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known (via universoul)
“Do you guys know what sewing is? A girl at work just fixed my pants with string...”
– Adam Juskewitch (via theories-of)
“Fear is not only a response of the adrenal glands but also a psychological...”
– J.Krishnamurti (via urmi7)
“I know “Bambi” was just a movie, but I haven’t seen Bambi’s mom in any other...”
– M (via theories-of)
“The trick to not feeling cheated is to learn how to cheat. So, I decided this...”
– Penelope, The Brothers Bloom (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“You set out to imitate something you thought was beautiful but in the end you...”
– Francis Ford Coppola on imitating your heroes
(He’s said this before.)
“The ability to adapt to new realities is what distinguishes those who grow...”
– Andrew G. Williams (via quote-book)
“We remember the time around scars.”
– Michael Ondaatje, from “The Time Around Scars” (via mythologyofblue)
“Don’t worry about people stealing your ideas. If your ideas are any good, you’ll...”
– Computer pioneer Howard Aiken, to one of his graduate students. (Aiken also said of the computer field: “The problem in this business is not to keep people from stealing your ideas, but to make them steal them.” His biographer writes, “He was never consumed with a passion for credit.”)
“That God does not exist, I cannot deny, That my whole being cries out for God I...”
– Jean-Paul Sartre (via watercolournights) 