January 2012
2 posts
“Normal is not something to aspire to, it’s something to get away from.”
– Jodie Foster
“Do not grow old, no matter how long you live. Never cease to stand like curious...”
– Albert Einstein
December 2011
2 posts
“God invented mankind because he loved silly stories.”
– Ralph Steadman
“Inside, we are ageless and when we talk to ourselves, it’s the same age of the...”
– David Lynch
October 2011
6 posts
“Only dullards crippled into cretinism by a fear of being thought pretentious...”
– Stephen Fry writing a tribute to Steve Jobs
“What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly...”
– Sylvia Plath
“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.”
– C. S. Lewis
“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
– Kazuo Ishiguro
“Experience is a good school. But the fees are high.”
– Heinrich Heine
“Almost every man wastes part of his life in attempts to display qualities which...”
– Samuel Johnson
September 2011
2 posts
“It does not require a majority to prevail, but rather an irate, tireless...”
– Samuel Adams
“The man who has no tincture of philosophy goes through life imprisoned in the...”
– Bertrand Russell
August 2011
2 posts
“Language … has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone....”
– Paul Tillich
“Many people hear voices when no one is there. Some of them are called mad and...”
– Meg Chittenden
July 2011
1 post
“We either make ourselves miserable, or we make ourselves strong. The amount of...”
– Carlos Castenada
June 2011
1 post
“Age is a very high price to pay for maturity.”
– Tom Stoppard
May 2011
2 posts
“As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the...”
– Gandhi
“Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting.”
– Haruki Murakami
April 2011
3 posts
“There are two mistakes one can make along the road to truth…not going all the...”
– The Buddha
“Well chaps, first I’d like to say a few vile things more or less at random, not...”
– Donald Barthelme, Snow White
“A coward is incapable of exhibiting love; it is the prerogative of the brave.”
– Mahatma Gandhi
March 2011
7 posts
“Each day, life will send you little windows of opportunity. Your destiny will...”
– Robin Sharma
“…the occasional pitfalls of his writing style, which betrays subtle signs...”
– Sarah Vowel, Radio On
(Takes me right back to grad school. Amen, sister.)
“But I can’t listen to music too often. It affects your nerves, makes you...”
– Vladimir Lenin
“While I had often said that I wanted to die in bed, what I really meant was that...”
– Roger Zelazny
“What we think, or what we know, or what we believe is, in the end, of little...”
– John Ruskin
“Act as if what you do makes a difference. It does.”
– William James
“The biggest heartaches in my life have all been because I wanted people to love...”
– Dolly Parton
February 2011
5 posts
“He who deliberates fully before taking a step will spend his entire life on one...”
– Chinese Proverb
“You, yourself, as much as anybody else in the entire universe, deserve your love...”
– Buddha
“I had rather be shut up in a very modest cottage with my books, my family, and a...”
– Thomas Jefferson
“Excellence is doing ordinary things extraordinarily well.”
– John W. Gardner
“To listen to some devout people, one would imagine that God never laughs.”
– Sri Aurobindo
January 2011
2 posts
“What makes you vulnerable makes you beautiful.”
– Brené Brown
“Take into account that great love and great achievements involve great risk.”
– The Dalai Lama
December 2010
5 posts
“If you don’t write your books, nobody else will do it for you. No one else has...”
– José Saramago
“A little knowledge that acts is worth infinitely more than much knowledge that...”
– Khalil Gibran
“Ultimately, I’ve decided that the most relevant and generalizable piece of...”
– Pandora founder Tim Westergren, on BusinessInsider
“We don’t see things as they are, we see things as we are.”
– Anais Nin
“If you neglect your art for one day it will neglect you for two.”
– Chinese Proverb
November 2010
2 posts
“In the entire world, there is not one human being who is free from pain. Even in...”
– Swami Kripalu
“Ideas are easy. It’s the execution of ideas that really separates the sheep from...”
– Sue Grafton
October 2010
4 posts
“Life must be understood backward. But … it must be lived forward.”
– Søren Kierkegaard
“For me, marketing is about values. This is a very complicated world, it’s a very...”
– Steve Jobs’ best quotes - Quora (via superamit)
“She wasn’t doing a thing I could see, except standing there leaning on the...”
– J.D. Salinger, A Girl I Knew
“Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...”
– Alan Moore
September 2010
4 posts
“…and those who were seen dancing were thought to be crazy by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietszche
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“Middle age snuffs out more talent than ever wars or sudden deaths do.”
– Richard Hughes
“I still find each day too short for all the thoughts I want to think, all the...”
– John Burroughs | Submitted by christinakim. (via quote-book) (via icuntspell)
“Don’t be embarassed by who you are. They’re going to judge you no matter what...”
– Melina Kanakaredes
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