December 2011
It’s difficult for most people to understand the nothing feeling, because...
– David Schafer (The Nothing Feeling)
And all my days are trances, and all my nightly dreams are where thy grey eye...
– Edgar Allan Poe (To One in Paradise)
Show me a hero, and I’ll write you a tragedy.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via kcnightfire)
To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
– e.e. cummings (via ruefle)
It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky, between voyager and sea....
– Haruki Murakami (Kafka on the Shore)
November 2011
Life
The thing about life is that you live it in order to figure out your purpose. The problem is once you know for sure what that purpose is, it’s normally too late…
It’s easy to look smart when you’re parroting smart people.
– Randy Pausch (via cakeisme)
The brick walls are there for a reason. The brick walls are not there to keep...
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture, Carnegie Mellon University (via ssuperhero)
Experience is what you get when you didn’t get what you wanted.
– Randy Pausch, The Last Lecture (via zachjohnson)
Your critics are the ones telling you they still love you and care. Worry when...
– Randy Pausch The Last Lecture (via oliveguardie)
We cannot change the cards we are dealt, just how we play the hand.
– Randy Pausch (The Last Lecture) (via betwixtandbetween4283)
Sometimes the questions are complicated and the answers are simple.
– Dr. Seuss (via obliviscentes)
You’re the only girl I’ve seen for a long time that actually did look like...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, Tender is the Night (via golehyas)
Don’t go far off, not even for a day, because —
because — I don’t know how to...
– Pablo Neruda, “Don’t Go Far Off” (via katskradlexx)
Every kid starts out as a natural-born scientist, and then we beat it out of...
– Carl Sagan (via starsinhereyes)
I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I’d been able to, we could have lived...
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via yunzi)
Happiness in intelligent people is the rarest thing I know.
– Ernest Hemingway (via bornagain-hooligan)
What I want is to be needed. What I need is to be indispensable to somebody. Who...
– Chuck Palahniuk (via troubled)
But more than that, no unloving words were ever spoken, and everything was held...
– Jonathan Foer (Everything is Illuminated)
aliciamathur:
Even during Thanksgiving break, there’s so much to do and so little time.
Preach, woman, preach!
When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all of...
– Pajanjali