January 2010
39 posts
“When a person doesn’t have gratitude, something is missing in his or her...”
– Elie Wiesel (via nihilnoetia)
“Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via theswashbucklingconductor) (via nihilnoetia)
“The best day of your life is the one on which you decide your life is your own....”
– Bob Moawad (via aliaseva) (via nihilnoetia)
“So here’s what you do: never stop thinking. Never stop asking questions. Never,...”
– Open Letter to Design Students Everywhere | Design Observer (via bmdesign) (via wearethedigitalkids)
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via kari-shma)
WatchDid you know that as of 2005, only 15 percent of the world was mapped? Google’s Lalitesh Katragadda thinks we can do better. Not having detailed maps in the developing world slows the delivery of aid after a disaster and hides the economic potential of unused lands and unknown roads. Said another way, access to better information yields better results and vice versa, especially when the timeliness...
“Curiosity is the very basis of education and if you tell me that curiosity...”
– Arnold Edinborough (via pacificcru) (via kendalllouise) (via nihilnoetia)
Amen!
“If we don’t offer ourselves to the unknown, our senses dull. Our world becomes...”
– Kent Nerburn, “Letters to my Son” (from Whiskey River) (via crashinglybeautiful)
Our time here is short and therefore, so incredibly precious; spend it wisely. Dare to dream. Take chances. Don’t be afraid.
theantidote:
nihilnoetia:
The line of her back curved like a wall between him and the deeper nightmares. She pressed against him, warm and soft, with that familiar scent that was as much the coffee on her breath as the smell of her skin. They fit together with an ease only years could bring, years of knowing just the right way to lie that when he woke up breathless she was already facing him,...
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the...”
– E.E. Cummings, from: souvenirs from the backwater, astragalus & thehermitage) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“You don’t have to be overly macho. You don’t have to be over-complimentary. Gain...”
– John Holmes (via molls) (via tylercoates) (via meaghano) (via jessicachu) (via joncrowley)
Awesome.
“Tell me a story…
What kind of story, child?
A story with a happy ending....”
– Jeanette Winterson, British novelist (via oceanofmind) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
– Eduardo Galeano (via kari-shma)
I simply adore this.
“Develop interest in life as you see it; in people, things, literature, music -...”
– Henry Miller (1891 - 1980) (via revolvver) (via wearethedigitalkids)
“When they go home, they’ll say they know Paris. Tomorrow, they’ll go...”
– Paulo Coelho, the Zahir.
“Sometimes I muse about how wonderful it would be if I could string all my dreams...”
– Fernando Pessoa, “The Book of Disquiet” (via unlitstairs) (via crashinglybeautiful)
“But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she...”
– Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five
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