July 2012
56 posts
“Imagination grows by exercise, and contrary to common belief, is more powerful...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via writingquotes)
“Once I was beautiful, now I am myself.”
– Anne Sexton (via alecshao)
“You will never be happy if you continue to search for what happiness consists...”
– Albert Camus (via leritas)
“How we need another soul to cling to.”
– Sylvia Plath (via pavorst)
“Change is not a bolt of lightning that arrives with a zap. It is a bridge built...”
– Thoughtful, moving piece by Sarah Hepola on her long struggle to quit drinking, showing that, like innovation, personal change is a matter of gradual revision and rewiring, not strokes of epiphany.
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“An even bigger issue is that if people think social justice is about niceness,...”
– The Revolution Will Not Be Polite (via coreymarie)
“Who are we? We find that we live on an insignificant planet of a humdrum star...”
– Carl Sagan (via expose-the-light)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via writingquotes)
“You are a mashup of what you let into your life.”
– Austin Kleon (via farewell-kingdom)
“I was exalted above a waste of almost waveless sea, palish grey and dented with...”
– Virginia Woolf, Diary Entry, 18 September 1918. (via fuckyeahvirginiawoolf)
“The secret to happiness is low expectations.”
– Barry Schwartz (via razorshapes)
“Beauty is about being comfortable in your own skin. It’s about knowing and...”
– Ellen DeGeneres (via myquotelibrary)
“We use novels, not old newspapers, to get a sense of what life was like 100...”
– Robin Sloan, writing for The New York Times, on the future of fiction. (via jarrettfuller)
“A sheltered life can be a daring life as well. For all serious daring starts...”
– Eudora Welty in One Writer’s Beginnings, adding to our ongoing archive of insight on writing. (via explore-blog)
“Congratulations! You’re not perfect! It’s ridiculous to want to be perfect...”
– Stephen Manes (via ruineshumaines)
“We are what we think. All that we are arises with our thoughts. With our...”
– Buddha (via showslow)
“Don’t chase after thoughts, and don’t push them away. Just let them come in and...”
– Jakuso Kwong (via light-essence)
“Some ideas are better than others. The machinery for distinguishing them is an...”
– Carl Sagan on mastering the vital balance between skepticism and open-mindedness (via explore-blog)
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) 