July 2010
1 post
“…to crooked eyes truth may wear a wry face.”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via reluctantbuddha)
April 2010
1 post
“The very man who has argued you down, will sometimes be found, years later, to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via reluctantbuddha)
March 2010
1 post
February 2010
2 posts
“In sorrow we must go, but not in despair. Behold! we are not bound for ever to...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien
December 2009
3 posts
“Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving”
– Albert Einstein (via constantflux) (via quote-book)
“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones; and...”
– ~ Victor Hugo (via smileawhileforme) (via gatekeeper)
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to...”
– Ernest Hemingway
November 2009
6 posts
“In the struggle for existence, it is only on those who hang on for ten minutes...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Idolatry is committed, not merely by setting up false gods, but also by setting...”
– G. K. Chesterton
“Life’s challenges are not supposed to paralyze you, they’re supposed to help you...”
– Bernice Johnson Reagon (via insightsoutsights)
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every experience in which you...”
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“The Onion Field made a real writer. And then I knew it was over, I...”
– Joseph Wambaugh
“We were meant to lose people we love. How else would we know how important they...”
– ~ The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via gatekeeper)
September 2009
1 post
It is the simultaneous and autonomous presence and possession of opposite qualities, not their unification, that make greatness.
July 2009
1 post
“The Master says to our master, Come up. Share my rest and splendour till all...”
– C.S. Lewis, The Great Divorce
June 2009
7 posts
“Consideration, like an angel, came
And whipped the offending Adam out of him.”
– Shakespeare’s Henry V
“The true measure of a man is how he treats someone who can do him absolutely no...”
– Samuel Johnson
“Whoever said anybody has a right to give up?”
– Marian Wright Edelman (via onherway) (via gatekeeper)
“The deepest secret is that life is not a process of discovery, but a process of...”
– Conversations with God (via insituthoughts) (via quote-book)
6 tags
“I’ve always followed my father’s advice: he told me, first to always keep my...”
– John Wayne (via enquotations)
May 2009
15 posts
5 tags
“I don’t know what I expected. Perhaps nothing else than that special...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-line
3 tags
“I had a general sense of my preparedness which only a man pursuing his true...”
– Joseph Conrad, The Shadow-line
“The great crisis comes spiritually when a man has to emerge a bit farther on...”
– Oswald Chambers
“As we acquire more knowledge, things do not become more comprehensible but more...”
– Albert Schweitzer (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“A little nonsense now and then is relished by the wisest men.”
– Roald Dahl. (via dailymeh)
4 tags
What if death, in the most basic sense of its existence, rather than a punishment for sin, is the ultimate mercy for a diseased nature?
“Prayer does not change God, but changes him who prays.”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via quotedropper)
Modern Physics
In the presence of other worlds (the dimensions proposed by string theory and M-theory), this world can be no less real, but it may have less of reality.
Man’s idea of beauty tends to only be made palatable by nature, if from her it does not originally come.
“When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“If behind popular fascination with Freudian theory there was a nervous, often...”
– Sherry Turkle (via blogut) (via quote-book)
3 tags
War...
War doesn’t negate decency. It demands it, even more than in times of peace.
“If people bring so much courage to this world the world has to kill them to...”
– Hemmingway, A Farewell to Arms
“The most profound joy has more of gravity than of gaiety in it.”
– Montaigne
3 tags
“It is not the critic who counts, not the man who points out how the strong man...”
– Theodore Roosevelt
April 2009
2 posts
Before 10 March, 2009
Perhaps at the moment of a peaceful death, a little surge of panic is felt by a self-preserving body, and must be overcome or submitted to. And, like a jump from a high wall, thrills as much as terrifies.
Thought of some day
What good is it to describe color to a blind man, or to show him the Collosseum by giving its dimensions? We are trying to give a blind man sight by speaking as to a sighted man who has merely closed his eyes. Let him taste, touch, smell, but do not try to make him see.