"A friend can tell you things you don’t want to tell yourself."
— Frances Ward Weller (Contemporary American children’s book author)
"It is true when you are by yourself and you think about life, it is always sad. All that excitement and so on has a way of suddenly leaving you, and it’s as though, in the silence, somebody called your name, and you heard your name for the first time."
— 1922 Katherine Mansfield (New Zealander Modernist writer, 1888-1923) ~ At the Bay via katherine-mansfield
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"In order to be irreplaceable, one must always be different."
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Gabrielle “Coco” Bonheur Chanel (French fashion designer, 1883-1971) via
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"Those people who recognize that imagination is reality’s master, we call sages, and those who act upon it, we call artists."
— Tom Robbins (American author, 1936) via artistjade
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When tea becomes ritual, it takes its place at the heart of our ability to see greatness in small things.
Where is beauty to be found? In great things that, like everything else, are doomed to die, or in small things that aspire to nothing, yet know how to set a jewel of infinity in a single moment?
"— Muriel Barberry (French novelist, professor of Philosophy, 1969) from The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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"As you grow older, you will discover that you have two hands: one for helping yourself, the other for helping others."
— Audrey Hepburn via beautifulinterior
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"The most beautiful experience we can have is the mysterious — the fundamental emotion which stands at the cradle of true art and true science."
— Isaac Asimov and other great minds – including Albert Einstein, Carl Sagan, Richard Feynmen, Marie Curie, and E. O. Wilson – define science via explore-blog
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"No entertainment is so cheap as reading nor any pleasure so lasting."
— Lady Mary Wortley Montague (British aristocrat, writer, 1689-1762) via
"Bien avant que physique et psychologie fussent nées, la douleur désintégrait la matière, et le chagrin, l’âme."
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Emil Cioran (Romanian philosopher, essayist, 1911-95) via rose-publique
[Long before physics and psychology were brought forth, pain disintegrated matter, and grief, the soul.]
"The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress."
— Joseph Joubert (French moralist, essayist 1754-1824)
Stephen Hawking (British theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author, 1942)
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What an astonishing thing a book is.
It’s a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you’re inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you.
Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.
"— Carl Sagan (American astronomer, astrophysicist, cosmologist, author, science populaizer, science communicator, 1934-96) via fleurishes
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Instructions for living a life:
Pay attention.
Be astonished.
Tell about it.
― Mary Oliver (American poet/Pulitzer Prize winner, 1935)
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blankrorschach: Frank Zappa (American composer, singer, songwriter, guitarist, record producer, film director, 1940-93)
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