June 2012
42 posts
“Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not … ”—Badu pauses to get...”
– Erykah Badu: June/July Cover Story [Pg 1] | VIBE (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to...”
– Bill Beattie (via knowledgeappliedispower)
“Mankind, itself, is living in what is essentially a very low-security, open air...”
– Max Igan (via pigcharmer)
“People do not seem to realize that their opinion of the world is also a...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via letmebeyourbadinfluence)
“At a certain moment, I see through what I am saying; I detest myself and wish...”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 24 February, 1926. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“Many nights I wake in a shudder thinking of some atrocity of mine. I bring home...”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 22 July 1926. (via violentwavesofemotion)
“It all depends on how we look at things, and not on how they are themselves.”
– Carl Jung (via yogachocolatelove)
“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”
– Ann Tyler (via understandingear)
“Color possesses me. I don’t have to pursue it. It will possess me always, I know...”
– (via alexaaulds)
“The true sign of intelligence is not knowledge but imagination. - Albert...”
“The arts are not a way to make a living. They are a very human way of making...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via sirmitchell)
“The happiest of all lives is a busy solitude.”
– Voltaire (via agentlewoman)
“We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.”
– Kenji Miyazawa (via showslow)
“Think lightly of yourself and deeply of the world.”
– Miyamoto Musashi (via heartmindawakening)
“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via ageofreason)
“The mind can make a heaven out of hell or a hell out of heaven.”
– John Milton (via hiddenmoth)
“The trick is in what one emphasizes. We either make ourselves miserable, or we...”
– Carlos Castaneda (via creatingaquietmind)
“Normal is an illusion. What is normal for the spider is chaos for the fly.”
– Morticia Addams (via thxy-138)
“All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.”
– Andre Breton (via luminica)
“We look at each other; see that we do not know each other, stare, and go off....”
– Virginia Woolf,The Waves. (via violentwavesofemotion)
“I am a humanist, in part, that I have tried to behave decently without any...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, 1992 Humanist of the Year (via lionskeleton)
“You will become way less concerned with what other people think of you when you...”
– David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest (via alecshao)
“Remember that real success is maximizing your internally derived happiness. It...”
– Khan Academy founder Sal Khan’s 2012 MIT commencement address, a fine addition to the season’s best and a complement to some of the most timeless graduation speeches in modern history, including David Foster Wallace, Ellen DeGeneres, Aaron Sorkin, Barack Obama, Ray Bradbury, J. K. Rowling, Steve...
“Being a geek is all about your own personal level of enthusiasm, not how your...”
– The Mary Sue defines what it means to be a geek, a beautiful definition that falls (un)surprisingly close to what it means to find purpose and do what you love.
(↬ It’s Okay To Be Smart)
“This is the best time in history to be a creative person, because all you need...”
– Working “2nd Watch” With Wil Wheaton « Nerdist (via wilwheaton)
“Great things are not accomplished by those who yield to trends and fads and...”
– Jack Kerouac (via farewell-kingdom)
“We should do away with the absolutely specious notion that everybody has to earn...”
– Buckminster Fuller (via caffeinebased)
“People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via haereticum)
“The sign of intelligence is that you are constantly wondering. Idiots are always...”
– Vasudev (via myheadisweak)
“The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are...”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book of Disquiet (via black-tangled-heart)
“The duty of youth is to challenge corruption.”
– Kurt Cobain (via yourmilkturnstocream)
“Insanity is doing the same thing, over and over again, but expecting different...”
– Albert Einstein (via ruineshumaines)
“Everything is imprinted for ever with what it once was.”
– Jeanette Winterson, from The Stone Gods (thanks, ikalawangboses)
“The truth is everyone’s gonna hurt you. You just gotta find the ones worth...”
– Bob Marley (via showslow)
“The strength I’m looking for isn’t the kind where you win or lose. I’m not after...”
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via leritas)
“It is worth mentioning, for future reference, that the creative power which...”
– Virginia Woolf (via writingquotes)
“Writing a book is a horrible, exhausting struggle, like a long bout with some...”
– George Orwell (via farewell-kingdom)
“Imagine that, for a moment.”
– Joanne Harris, from Sleep, Pale Sister (thanks to gothtimelord)
“I cannot believe that the purpose of life is to be happy. I think the purpose of...”
– Leo Rosten (via arpeggia)
“There is only one good, knowledge, and one evil, ignorance.”
– Socrates (via no-notthemindprobe)
“No one ever told me that grief felt so like fear.”
– C.S. Lewis (via lastdaysofmagic) 