March 2010
20 posts
“The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by...”
– george bernard shaw
February 2010
30 posts
Ghostly Dance of a sea dragon →
“There is no reality except the one contained within us. That is why so many...”
– hermann hesse
“A truth that’s told with bad intent,
Beats all the lies you can invent.”
– william blake
“To be capable of steady friendship or lasting love, are the two greatest proofs,...”
– paul aubuchon
“What is pornography to one man is the laughter of genius to another.”
– dh lawrence
“One great use of words is to hide our thoughts.”
– voltaire
“A woman can forgive a man for the harm he does her,” he said, “but...”
I love this article so much that I am re-posting it. The author touches beautifully on two topics that I think about often. Chasing Happiness and Nostalgia.
“I suspect there is something inherently misguided and self-defeating and hopeless about any deliberate campaign to achieve happiness. Perhaps the reason we so often experience happiness only in hindsight, and that chasing it is such a...
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being...”
– edith wharton
“A woman may be as wicked as she likes, but if she isn’t pretty it...”
– maugham
“Censorship is advertising paid by the government.”
– Federico Fellini
“Follow your inclinations with due regard to the policeman round the corner.”
– of Human Bondage
“Sick I am of idle words, past all reconciling,
Words that weary and perplex and...”
– george du maurier
“At any street corner the feeling of absurdity can strike any man in the face.”
– camus (the myth of sisyphus)
“Every kind of ignorance in the world all results from not realizing that our...”
– Robert Anton Wilson
“A God that can be understood is no God. Who can explain the Infinite in words?”
– w.somerset maugham
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“When we read a story, we inhabit it.
The covers of the book are like a roof and...”
– ~ John Berger (via libraryland) (via booklover) (via verymuch)
“You must constantly ask yourself these questions: Who am I around? What are they...”
– Jim Rohn
“Everything is both simpler than we can imagine, and more complicated that we can...”
– Johann Wolfgang Goethe 