April 2012
“I’ve been making a list of the things they don’t teach you at school. They don’t...”
– Neil Gaiman (via imprecise)
“Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened.”
– Anatole France (via liquidnight)
“The difficulty of always feeling that you ought to be doing something is that...”
– Brian Eno (via austinkleon)
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
– Jack Kerouac (via fleurism)
texturism:
one of the biggest disconnects in art is people going to an art exhibit to find things that they like. i can tell you that’s the furthest things from any artist’s thinking that you can imagine. they couldn’t give a shit about what you like. if anything, they would like to change what you like. | - james turrell for interview magazine.
“Love is that condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to...”
– Robert A. Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land (via liquidnight)
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can...”
– Immanuel Kant (via liquidnight)
“Without animals, there would be no humanity.
In a world of just people, people...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Haunted (via liquidnight)
“How many people would never fall in love if they hadn’t heard the word?”
– La Rochefoucauld (via markmoney)
“The process of writing, editing, selling, editing and publishing a book is...”
– Claire Zulkey, in a great list of “Ego Checks You May Encounter As A Blogger-Turned-Book-Writer” (via austinkleon)
“Everything you want in life is right outside your comfort zone.”
– Robert Allen (via elemenop)
“Chance favors the prepared mind.
Le hasard profite aux esprits préparés.”
– Louis Pasteur (via yama-bato)
“And then I felt sad because I realized that once people are broken in certain...”
– Douglas Coupland (via kari-shma)
“You find peace not by rearranging the circumstances of your life, but by...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via heartmindspirit)
“My life is as simple as I can make it. Work all day, cook, eat, wash up,...”
– Philip Larkin (via austinkleon)
“A man sees in the world what he carries in his heart.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust (via ulfurmur)
“We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...”
– Seneca (via pavorst)
“When I was first starting out people always said, ‘Write what you know.’...”
– Maureen McHugh (via austinkleon)
“The life of our body is only a constantly prevented dying, an ever postponed...”
– Schopenhauer The World as Will and Representation (via chunder-)
“One of the reasons why so few of us ever act, instead of react, is because we...”
– ~ Henry Miller (via ladylilith13)
They become a little like children
nothing2c:
The other day, my mom asked how I was feeling.
“This is when I have the most drug in my system,” I said. “So I’ve still got a lot of the side effects, and will have them through January.”
“Oh, well, glad you’re feeling better,” she said, as if she had not heard me.
Her words made me realize something: it’s a million times harder for my mother to hear about any of this than anyone...
“Change your life today. Don’t gamble on the future, act now, without delay.”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via loveandfer)
“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature...”
– Søren Kierkegaard (via bardsandsages)
“This cold winter night,
that old wooden-head Buddha
would make a nice fire”
– Buson
by Buson (1716 - 1784)
http://www.poetry-chaikhana.com/B/Buson/Thiscoldwint.htm
(via yama-bato)
“I don’t know any more. I used to know, but I lost the knowledge a long time ago....”
– J.D. Salinger, “A Girl I Knew” (via liquidnight)
“But your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via liquidnight)
“Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature,...”
– Henry Miller (via little-fighter)
“in three words i can sum up everything i’ve learned about life: it goes on.”
– robert frost (via cheesegasm)
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Hermann Hesse (via pavorst)
“Forget safety.
Live where you fear to live.
Destroy your reputation.
Be...”
– Rumi (via libraryland)
“Let’s go ahead and just rename the entire Internet “Shit Everyone Says”.”
– Alex Blagg (via theories-of)
“I tell my piano the things I used to tell you.”
– Frederic Chopin (via alecshao)
“Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage.”
– Anaïs Nin (via nineofpentacles)
“the snow doesn’t give a soft white
damn Whom it touches”
– e.e. cummings, from “XIX”, from ViVa (via liquidnight)
“Take long walks in stormy weather or through deep snows in the fields and woods,...”
– Henry David Thoreau, December 25, 1856 From The Journal of Henry David Thoreau 1837-1861 (via liquidnight)
It's a closed ecosystem
nothing2c:
Recycling has become so much easier to remember ever since I realized that adding to the earth’s toxicity probably helps to create cancer…
“Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or...”
– Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth) 