May 2013
1 post
“The best advice I can give can be summed up in one word: Read. Don’t be...”
– Pocket : 10 Powerful Women’s Best Advice
April 2013
9 posts
“Begin any creative project by immersing yourself in the known. The best ideas...”
– http://ww.w.theenergyproject.com/tips/surround-yourself-creativity
“Meditation devotees work at clearing the mind; therapy helps you to ward off the...”
– How to Manage Your Existential Dread in Light of, Oh, Everything
“Maybe you’re saying, “Hey, but my life wasn’t fair either....”
– If I Admit That ‘Hating Men’ Is a Thing, Will You Stop Turning It Into a Self-Fulfilling Prophecy?
“Fortunately, there’s a powerful alternative, crystallized by the psychology...”
– The Key to Getting Motivated: Give Up - 99U
“Basically, she suggests, this is because people have an internal alarm clock...”
– Why Is It Hard to Make Friends Over 30? - NYTimes.com
March 2013
12 posts
“I don’t need a friend who changes when I change and who nods when I nod; my...”
– Plutarch (via showslow)
“Happiness is a state of activity.”
– Aristotle (via showslow)
“No tree, it is said, can grow to Heaven unless its roots reach down to Hell.”
– Carl Jung (via showslow)
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February 2013
4 posts
“Tradition is a guide and not a jailer.”
– Somerset Maugham
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“You know, Bertha,’ she said after a pause, ‘in this world it is very difficult...”
– Somerset Maugham
January 2013
19 posts
“Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...”
– Khalil Gibran (via showslow)
“Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you...”
– Janet Fitch, White Oleander (via showslow)
“It’s not you, it’s mankind.”
– (via wastedrita)
“Inaction breeds doubt and fear. Action breeds confidence and courage. If you...”
– Dale Carnegie (via showslow)
“I am not a graceful person. I am not a Sunday morning or a Friday sunset. I am a...”
– Unknown (via showslow)
“I’ve had so many knives stuck into me, when they hand me a flower I can’t quite...”
– Charles Bukowski (via showslow)
“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one...”
– Lao Tzu (via showslow)
“I dreamed a thousand new paths. I woke and walked my old one.”
– Chinese Proverb (via showslow)
“Time is nature’s way of keeping everything from happening at once.”
– Woody Allen
“To Edith
Dedication of Autobiography
Through the long years
I sought peace...”
– Bertrand Russell
“Whether an author desires it to or not, a great work will become an entity apart...”
– The World’s Greatest Short Stories by James Daley
“And could you keep your heart in wonder at the daily miracles of your life, your...”
‘I love them because they’re the same roses as grow in Rome from the sarcophagi in the gardens. They grow out of those old coffins to show us that life always triumphs over death. What do I care for illness and old age and disease ! The world may be full of misery and disillusion, it may not give a tithe of what we ask, it may offer hatred instead of love—disappointment,...
December 2012
20 posts
“Being happy doesn’t mean that everything is perfect. It means that you’ve...”
– Anonymous
“It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am...”
– Clarice Lispector
“Be humble for you are made of earth.
Be noble for you are made of stars.”
– Serbian proverb
“I cannot make you understand. I cannot make anyone understand what is happening...”
– Franz Kafka
