"If at first, the idea is not absurd, then there is no hope for it"
— Albert Einstein (via observedofallobservers)
(via observedofallobservers)
"The world is full of magic things, patiently waiting for our senses to grow sharper."
— W.B. Yeats (via libraryland)
"The opening riff of ‘Welcome to the Jungle’ is a descending trip into the underworld of Los Angeles. Of misfits, drug addicts, paranoia, sex, violence, love and anger in the cracks of Hollywood. It was a breath of fresh air."
— Billie Joe Armstrong, Green Day, inducting Guns N’ Roses into the RnR Hall of Fame (via newspeedwayboogie)
(Source: The New York Times, via newspeedwayboogie)
"Music expresses that which cannot be put into words and that which cannot remain silent."
— Victor Hugo (via libraryland)
"Nothing can take the sting out of the economic crisis like watching millionaires provide each other with golden statues."
— Billy Crystal, crystallizing the Oscars in one sentence.
"We can’t quite decide if the world is growing worse, or if the reporters are just working harder."
— The Houghton Line (via azspot)
(via azspot)
Mark Twain’s 9 Tips For Living An Awesome Life
1. Approve of yourself.
“A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.”
2. Your limitations may just be in your mind.
“Age is an issue of mind over matter. If you don’t mind, it doesn’t matter.”
3. Lighten up and have some fun.
“Humor is mankind’s greatest blessing.”
“Against the assault of laughter nothing can stand.”
4. Let go of anger.
“Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.”
5. Release yourself from entitlement.
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you nothing. It was here first.”
6. If you’re taking a different path, prepare for reactions.
“A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.”
7. Keep your focus steadily on what you want.
“Drag your thoughts away from your troubles… by the ears, by the heels, or any other way you can manage it.”
8. Don’t focus so much on making yourself feel good.
“The best way to cheer yourself up is to try to cheer somebody else up.”9. Do what you want to do.
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you didn’t do than by the ones you did so. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.”
(sure Mark, it is that easy…..)
These are pretty good ones.
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“I think age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
Tom Stoppard (1937 - )
Corbs - The Power of the Sea
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"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth."
— Marcel Proust (via ephemeralbones)
(via notational)
"Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited. Imagination encircles the world."
— Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
(Source: kari-shma, via rawrgiraffe)
"Somewhere something incredible is waiting to be known."
— Carl Sagan (via discoverynews)
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"Someday all of our technology will learn to emotionally manipulate us. Your smart phone is already doing it. Your desktop computer has been doing it for years. As your possessions learn to fill your emotional void, your need for the comfort of other humans will continue to decrease. Eventually we’ll be a society of sociopaths. I’m already halfway there."
— Scott Adams (via alysonsmediadiet:notational)
(via notational)
"Try a thing you haven’t done three times. Once, to get over the fear of doing it. Twice, to learn how to do it. And a third time, to figure out whether you like it or not."
— Virgil Garnett Thomson (via quote-book)
"Life shrinks or expands in proportion to one’s courage."
— Anaïs Nin (via thattallgirl)
(Source: rulesformyunbornson, via thattallgirl)
"To write or even speak English is not a science but an art. There are no reliable words. Whoever writes English is involved in a struggle that never lets up even for a sentence. He is struggling against vagueness, against obscurity, against the lure of the decorative adjective, against the encroachment of Latin and Greek, and, above all, against the worn-out phrases and dead metaphors with which the language is cluttered up."
— George Orwell (via jerzee55)
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