December 2011
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Isn’t it nice to think that tomorrow is a new day ( and a new year ) with no mistakes in it yet?
- L.M. Montgomery
The human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited by...
– Albert Einstein (via simplyisis)
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If you can talk with crowds and keep your virtue,
Or walk with Kings — nor lose...
– If
Rudyard Kipling
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Seven Pillars of Wisdom
“All men dream, but not equally, those that dream by the night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity; but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act upon their dreams with open eyes, to make it possible.” - T. E. Lawrence, Seven Pillars of Wisdom
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his...
– Les Miserables by Victor Hugo (via thechocolatebrigade)
“Life has to be a love song; if it is not, it is not life at all, it is only a slow death. It is dragging. One exists but one does not live. Life becomes a life only when your heart starts singing songs of love, when a poet is born in you and when a love affair starts with existence.”
: “It is not the critic who counts; not the man... →
“It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood, who strives valiantly; who errs and comes…
The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
If you want to awaken all of humanity, then awaken all of yourself. If you want...
–
Lao Tzu
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I don’t suppose I really know you very well - but I know you smell like the...
– Zelda Fitzgerald, in a letter to F. Scott Fitzgerald (via ignify)
If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you...
– Anthony Bourdain
zenmind-nomind:
Come, come, whoever you are. Wanderer, worshipper, lover of living, it doesn’t matter Ours is not a caravan of despair. Come even if you have broken your vow a thousand times, Come, yet again, come as you are. ~Rumi
Real silence is explosive; it is not the dead state of mind that spiritual...
– U.G KRISHNAMURTI