December 2011
83 posts
It is a remarkable thing that every encounter whether bad or good, brief or...
– delay
It is not the length of life, but the depth.
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...
– Anais Nin
Remember, remember, this is now, and now, and now. Live it, feel it, cling to...
– Sylvia Plath
Ring out the old, ring in the new,
Ring, happy bells, across the snow:
The...
– Lord Alfred Tennyson
We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own...
– Paulo Coelho
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get...
– Mortimer J. Adler
Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving...
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to...
– Aristotle (via burnthazel)
“Let us be grateful to the people who make us happy; they are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.”
— Marcel Proust
“Maybe Christmas, the Grinch thought, doesn’t come from a store.”
—Dr. Seuss
Music is the wine that fills the cup of silence.
– Robert Fripp
Give me books, French wine, fruit, fine weather and a little music played out of...
– John Keats
Accept what life offers you and try to drink from every cup. All wines should be...
– Paulo Coelho
Q: Why was Santa’s little helper depressed?
A: Because he had low elf...
You still have a lot of time to make yourself be what you want. There’s still...
– The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton (via quote-book)
Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be...
– George Bernard Shaw, The Devil’s Disciple (via imfantasyparade)
Write drunk; edit sober.
– Ernest Hemingway (via chopa)
It is perfectly true, as philosophers say, that life must be understood...
– Søren Kierkegaard
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...
– Edith Sitwell
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...
– Albert Camus (via girlwithoutwings)
People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
I would rather be ashes than dust! I would rather that my spark should burn out...
– Jack London (via imfantasyparade)
You can feel the whole world and still feel lost in it. So many people are in...
– Mitch Albom (via julie911)
Love is like a friendship caught on fire. In the beginning a flame, very pretty,...
– Bruce Lee (via quote-book)
I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe...
– Audrey Hepburn (via girlwithoutwings)
Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.
– Hermann Hesse (via quote-book)
The most important kind of freedom is to be what you really are. You trade in...
– Jim Morrison (via light-essence)
Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.
– William James (via girlwithoutwings)
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, nor the kindly smile nor...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via julie911)
The best way out is always through
– Robert Frost (via simtan)
Sometimes letting things go is an act of far greater power than defending or...
– Eckhart Tolle (A New Earth)
I’ll let you be in my dream if I can be in yours.
– Bob Dylan (via metiens)
But better to be hurt by the truth than comforted with a lie.
– ― Khaled Hosseini
I grew up on the street, not the hood—sesame street.
– JD (Scrubs)
I’ve got nothing to do today but smile.
– Simon and Garfunkel
Happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length.
– Robert Frost
Music was my refuge. I could crawl into the space between the notes and curl my...
– Maya Angelou
Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...
– ― Oscar Wilde