April 2010
38 posts
“As happens sometimes, a moment settled and hovered and remained for much more...”
– john steinbeck (of mice and men) (via quellequaintrelle, colourmegreenwich)
“Creativity requires the courage to let go of certainties.”
– erich fromm (via quellequaintrelle, kari-shma)
“I am going to give you a piece of advice, advice I wish I’d been told back in...”
– douglas coupland (via quellequaintrelle, thechocolatebrigade)
“It is a fact that nine-tenths of the human race never have and never will think...”
– lester bangs (via quellequaintrelle, andimustscream)
my serendipities: All you really have is yourself →
“Concentrating means gathering yourself together into a single point rather than letting yourself be dispersed everywhere into a cloud of electronic and social input. It seems to me that Facebook and Twitter and YouTube—and just so you don’t think this is a generational thing, TV and radio and magazines and even newspapers, too—are all ultimately just an elaborate excuse to run away from...
“There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via cafe-noir) (via colourmegreenwich)
music is your only unconditional friend
“Romantic love is an illusion. Most of us discover this truth at the end of a...”
– W. Somerset Maugham (via mellifluous-whispers)
“You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and...”
– Buddha | Submitted by beyoutifulllx (via quote-book)
“Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.”
– mark twain (via quellequaintrelle, kari-shma)
“One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well.”
– virginia woolf (via quellequaintrelle, kari-shma)
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– kafka (via quellequaintrelle, brimichelle)
“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want...”
– einstein (via quellequaintrelle, kari-shma)
“The function of music is to release us from the tyranny of conscious thought.”
– sir thomas beecham (via quellequaintrelle, quotesixty)
“Let everything happen to you:
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going,
No feeling...”
– rilke (via quellequaintrelle)
“It is when I struggle to be brief that I become obscure.”
– horace
“You are what your deep driving desire is
As your deep driving desire is, so is...”
– maitri upanishads
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
– ivan turgenev (via quellequaintrelle) 