May 2012
32 posts
“Get out of your life. What ever is important to you isn’t really important to...”
– Serj Tankian (via sunhits)
“The more one judges, the less one loves.”
– Honoré de Balzac (via nenuphar-rose)
“Move outside the tangle of fear-thinking”
– Rumi (via ifallfastformuchness)
“I often feel like I want to think something but I can’t find the language that...”
– Peter Cameron (via dopatonin)
“I feel so intensely the delights of shutting oneself up in a little world of...”
– Virginia Woolf,The Voyage Out. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“Don’t let your happiness depend on something you may lose.”
– C.S Lewis (Irish, 1898-1963) (St. Augustine)
“It’s not the load that breaks you down. It’s the way you carry it.”
– C.S. Lewis (via seabois)
“All these things happen in one second and last for ever.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves. (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Capitalism doesn’t inspire creativity, it stifles it. There are millions of...”
– Ourben: (via theorthodoxheretic)
“Life is so very difficult. How can we be anything but kind.”
– Buddha (via moreofamore)
“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need...”
– Chuck Palahniuk, Asfixia (via showslow)
“The arts are not a way to make a living.
They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via saisonlune)
“Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one.”
– Stella Adler (via adeathgriponyesterday)
“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human...”
– Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace (via farewell-kingdom)
“It’s not what you look at that matters,
it’s what you see.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via shaktilover)
“But I’ll tell you what hermits realize. If you go off into a far, far forest and...”
– Alan Watts (via ageofreason)
“Success is getting what you want; happiness is wanting what you get.”
– ~Derek O’Neill (via iheartloons)
“The whole secret of existence is to have no fear. Never fear what will become of...”
– ~Siddhārtha Gautama (via iheartloons)
“A man wants to earn money in order to be happy, and his whole effort and the...”
– Albert Camus, The Myth of Sisyphus (1942, “Absurd Creation”, p.103)
“Your entire universe is in your mind and nowhere else. To expand the universe,...”
– Deepak Chopra (via openminded-freespirit)
“Freedom is man’s capacity to take a hand in his own development. It is our...”
– Rollo May (via nminusone)
“You never remain with any feeling, pure and simple, but always surround it with...”
– J.Krishnamurti (via substancem)
“Everyone lives with contradictions of some sort or another… The desire to be...”
– Xelha, Baten Kaitos: Eternal Wings and the Lost Ocean (via raqreqentba)
“Even if you win the rat race, you’re still a rat.”
– Howard Zinn (via lionskeleton)
“It’s life that matters, nothing but life — the process of discovering, the...”
– Virginia Woolf, Night And Day. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“To live we must conquer incessantly, we must have the courage to be happy.”
– Henri Frederic Amiel
(via Hillary Coe - Art Direction & Design)
“But if you knew you might not be able to see it again tomorrow, everything would...”
– Haruki Murakami - Kafka on the Shore (via showslow)
“She did not need much, wanted very little. A kind word, sincerity, fresh air,...”
– S. N. B. (via allthingssoulful)
“The dreamer isn’t lonely. Not when, like van Gogh, he has reached that level of...”
– H.D., Vincent Van Gogh (via awritersruminations)
“Thought runs you. Thought, however, gives false information that you are running...”
– David Bohm (via writingquotes)
“Actual happiness always looks pretty squalid in comparison with the...”
– Aldous Huxley, Brave New World (via leritas)
“At their core, artists and scientists are not so different from one another....”
– Bill O’Brien on art and science for The National Endowment of the Arts.
Einstein and Nietzsche would agree.
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