February 2012
14 posts
“Science is an inherent contradiction — systematic wonder — applied to the...”
– Systematic Wonder: A Definition of Science That Accounts for Whimsy | Brain Pickings
“He guessed this must be what it was like to be at the end of your rope, when you...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“Curiously, although their life together was terrible and they hadn’t made...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“Sometimes it seemed to him that all the grown-ups he’d ever known had been...”
– A Meaningful Life, L.J. Davis
“To me the honour is sufficient of belonging to the universe — such a great...”
– W. N. P. Barbellion
“There is, has been, and will always be a certain group of people whom...”
– Wislawa Szymborska - Nobel Lecture
“Every act of communication is an act of translation.”
– Gregory Rabassa
January 2012
12 posts
“You have stood before some landscape, which seems to embody what you have been...”
– C.S. Lewis (via wisdomforthemasses)
“I like the dark part of the night, after midnight and before four-thirty, when...”
– A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, Dave Eggers
“But I have nothing left to give you. My apples are gone.’ ‘My teeth are too weak...”
– The Giving Tree, Shel Silverstein (via 5 (More) Children’s Books for Grown-Ups | Brain Pickings)
“Minds are like parachutes, they only function when they’re open.”
– Thomas Robert Dewar
“Photography isn’t looking, it’s feeling. If you can’t feel...”
– What made an accountant dedicate his life to documenting the plight of the homeless? - Features - Art - The Independent
“The best thing for me to do is forget about my need for inspiration and go out...”
– Chase Jarvis (via grahambinns)
“A musician must make music, an artist must paint, a poet must write, if he is to...”
– A Theory of Human Motivation, Abraham Maslow
December 2011
13 posts
“For instance, if something is there, you can only see it with your eyes open,...”
– The Phantom Tollbooth, Norton Juster
“A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards,...”
– John Steinbeck
“As soon as you try to please everybody, you end up pleasing nobody, especially...”
– Chase Jarvis
“…if that’s what you want, you have to want it really bad and dedicate...”
– How Did I Become a National Geographic Photographer? | William Albert Allard – Blog
“Be ashamed to die until you have scored some victory for humanity.”
– Horace Mann, address at Antioch College, 1859. US educator (1796 - 1859)
November 2011
8 posts
“How beautiful, this falling snow. How large the snowflakes were and how...”
– Snow, Orhan Pamuk
October 2011
7 posts
“Are you willing to be sponged out, erased, cancelled, made nothing? Are you...”
– D.H. Lawrence
“I, the old woman, have lived longer than you people. Just the salt I have eaten...”
– The Rice Sprout Song, Eileen Chang
