May 2011
“Appreciation is a wonderful thing; it makes what is excellent in others belong...”
– Voltaire (via demonsbestfriend)
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
– Ivan Turgenev
“I am always doing things I can’t do. That is how I get to do them.”
– Pablo Picasso
“Your big opportunity may be right where you are standing right now.”
– Napoleon Hill
“Doubt can only be removed by action.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
“If you have time to whine and complain about something then you have the time to...”
– Anthony J. D’Angelo
“Not when truth is dirty, but when it is shallow, does the enlightened man...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche
“A man who has committed a mistake and doesn’t correct it, is committing...”
– Confucius
“It’s not where you are today that counts. It’s where you are headed.”
– Arthur F. Lenehan
“When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up we would no longer...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via daniellekiemel)
“I can still feel you,
the subtle and shaking pulse
of your skin on mine.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“I know you little, I love you lots, my love for you could fill ten pots, fifteen...”
– Shel Silverstein, I know you little, I love you lots (via thoughtsdetained)
“Never lie, steal, cheat, or drink… but if you must lie, lie in the arms of the...”
– Will Smith in Hitch (via quote-book)
“Men and women who are truly filled with light are those who have gazed deeply...”
– Brennan Mannin
“Tomorrow, you promise yourself, will be different, yet, tomorrow is too often a...”
– James T. McKay (via daniellekiemel)
“When we think of failure; Failure will be ours. If we remain undecided; Nothing...”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
“Spring is when you feel like whistling even with a shoe full of slush.”
– Doug Larson (via misswallflower)
“Most people aren’t appreciated enough, and the bravest things we do in our lives...”
– Peggy Noonan (via misswallflower)
1 tag
“The first step — especially for young people with energy and drive and talent,...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via heartmindspirit)
tamburina:
Like angels that have monster eyes, Over your bedside I shall rise, Gliding towards you silently Across night’s black immensity. O darksome beauty, you shall swoon At kisses colder than the moon And fondlings like a snake’s who coils Sinuous round the grave he soils.
Charles Baudelaire
“When we think of failure, failure will be ours. If we remain undecided, nothing...”
– Maharishi Mahesh Yogi (via reluctantbuddha)
“You are rewarding a teacher poorly if you remain always a pupil.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via reluctantbuddha)
“All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing...”
– Buddha (via reluctantbuddha)
“In one sense, reading is a great waste of time. In another sense, it is a great...”
– Mary Ruefle (via arkoftheache)
3 tags
Solitude.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you; Weep, and you weep alone. For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth, But has trouble enough of its own. Sing, and the hills will answer; Sigh, it is lost on the air. The echoes bound to a joyful sound, But shrink from voicing care. Rejoice, and men will seek you; Grieve, and they turn and go. They want full measure of all your pleasure, But they do...
