May 2009
9 posts
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do”
– Johann von Goethe (via kari-shma)
“The pain I feel now is the happiness I had before. That’s the deal.”
– C.S. Lewis (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
“Many people lose the small joys in the hope for the big happiness.”
– Pearl S. Buck
This is so true.
(via thresca)
“a novel is not moral in the usual sense of the word. it can be called moral when...”
– azar nafisi, reading lolita in tehran. (via oneshouldreadeverything)
“Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to...”
– Charles Dickens, Great Expectations (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
Delphiniums in a Window Box
Every sunrise, even strangers’ eyes. Not necessarily swans, even crows, even the evening fusillade of bats. That place where the creek goes underground, how many weeks before I see you again? Stacks of books, every page, characters’ rages and poets’ strange contraptions of syntax and song, every song even when there isn’t one. Every thistle, splinter, butterfly over the drainage ditches. Every...
“You can’t connect the dots looking forward; you can only connect them looking...”
– Steve Jobs’ 2005 Stanford Commencement address (via unexcitable) (via wander-lust)
“Knowledge must be gained by ourselves. Mankind may supply us with the facts; but...”
– Benjamin “Dizzy” Disraeli 