February 2010
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.”
– Aristotle
January 2010
“The snow doesn’t give a soft white damn whom it touches.”
– e e cummings (via)
“What’s great about a blog is that you can do completely crazy things like take...”
– Garance Doré
“I’m a kind of paranoiac in reverse. I suspect people of plotting to make...”
– J.D. Salinger, Raise High the Roof Beam, Carpenters
“There is no remedy for love but to love more.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via)
“The fact that Apple does not reveal prototypes but shipping products is the...”
– Joel Johnson
Piglet:
“How do you spell love?”
Pooh:
“You don’t spell it, you feel it.”
(via)
“Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not...”
– Albert Camus (via)
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“We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find...”
– Robert Louis Stevenson (via)
“Oh, how one wishes sometimes to escape from the meaningless dullness of human...”
– Boris Pasternak (via)
Sweet Darkness
When your eyes are tired
the world is tired also.
When your vision has gone
no part of the world can find you.
Time to go into the dark
where the night has eyes
to recognize it own.
There you can be sure
you are not beyond love.
The dark will be your womb
tonight.
The night will give you a horizon
further than you can see.
You must learn one thing.
The world was made to be free...
“I walk around the school hallways and look at the people. I look at the teachers...”
– Stephen Chobsky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via)
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“Love life and life will love you back. Love people and they will love you back.”
– Artur Rubenstein, pianist (via)
“I have decided to stick with love. Hate is too great a burden to bear.”
– Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. (via)
“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via)
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via)
“When I was twenty, I worried what everything thought of me. When I turned forty,...”
– Bob Hope (via)
“The work you do while you procrastinate is probably the work you should be doing...”
– Jessica Hische (via)
“I know that love is ultimately the only answer to mankind’s problems. And...”
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Address to the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, 1967