February 2012
44 posts
“The price of anything is the amount of life you exchange for it.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via creatingaquietmind)
Kyoko has a blog: Life Lesson #4: Paths →
brain-food:
Theres two paths we get to choose to walk down. The path society designed for us and you customized, and the path you designed for yourself from scratch. There comes these certain points where both of these paths become parallel to each other, where both sides take a glimpse at what’s really going…
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“The test will measure whether you are an informed, engaged, and productive...”
– John Green (Crash Course World History: The Agricultural Revolution
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“There is something in every one of you that waits and listens for the sound of...”
– Howard Thurman (via creatingaquietmind)
“… the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our...”
– Umberto Eco (via nevver)
“I think the reward for conformity is that everyone likes you except yourself.”
– Rita Mae Brown (via creatingaquietmind)
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“Art is not the possession of the few who are recognized writers, painters,...”
– John Dewey (via misswallflower)
“If I had my life to live over, I would perhaps have more actual troubles but...”
– Don Herold
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“‘Whether you think you can or cannot, you are right’”
“‘Once upon a time there was a philosopher who would walk along the beach...”
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“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free”
– Michelangelo
“No great artist ever sees things as they really are. If he did he would cease to...”
– Oscar Wilde (via swardsward)
“There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom,...”
– Colette (via misswallflower)
“There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you...”
– Pablo Picasso (via sonofgroucho)
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“Plant a garden in which strange plants grow and mysteries bloom.”
– Ken Kesey (via misswallflower)
“Put your ear down close to your soul and listen hard.”
– Anne Sexton (via misswallflower)
“I have frequently seen people become neurotic when they content themselves with...”
– Carl Jung (via psychotherapy)
“Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that...”
– Pauline Kael (via creatingaquietmind)
“Why is it so fucking cold?”
– Europe (via arctic-grey)
“You can stop feeling sorry for yourself, because I do not associate with people...”
– Bridesmaids. (via streetlamp-amber-wanderlust)
“If I didn’t define myself for myself, I would be crunched into other people’s...”
– Audre Lorde (via misswallflower)
“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and...”
– Andy Warhol (via creatingaquietmind)
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“I mean, at some point, you gotta stop looking up at the sky, or one of these...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via pulmones)
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“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”
– Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
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“She was learning to love moments. To love moments for themselves.”
– Gwendolyn Brooks (via misswallflower)
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January 2012
163 posts
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via coquetries)
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“Work expands so as to fill the time available for it’s completion”
“I know a lot of people who are philosophers and they sit by the river and talk...”