Prepare thy bro…
Prepare thy brow to frown.
– Coriolanus
Quotes
Love isn’t a st…
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
– Fred Rogers
To be of great …
To be of great wit and conversational powers, and simultaneously strong and serious and silent. To be generous and open and self-sacrificing, yet to be somewhat mysterious and sensitive and even a little bitter with melancholy. To be both light and dark. To harmonize this, to melt all this down into a single man [edit: or woman] – ah, there was something to be done.
– F.Scott Fitzgerald, The Perfect Life
People will lov…
People will love you. People will hate you. And none of it will have anything to do with you.
– Abraham Hicks
“A good reader,…
“A good reader, a major reader, an active and creative reader is a rereader.”
– Vladimir Nabokov via Brain Pickings
Because we grew…
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.
– Kurt Vonnegut
I’m not much, b…
I’m not much, but I’m all I have.
– Philip K. Dick, Martian Time-Slip
What is it you’…
What is it you’re looking for in this endless quest? Tranquility. You think if only you can acquire enough worldly goods, enough recognition, enough eminence, you will be free, there’ll be nothing more to worry about, and instead you become a bigger and bigger slave to how you think others are judging you.
– Tom Wolfe from A Man in Full (via creatingaquietmind)
It was probably…
It was probably nothing but it felt like the world.
– Morrissey, Autobiography (p. 141)
Next time someo…
Next time someone says to you, ‘if I were you’, stop them and say ‘well you aren’t’.
– Kanye West
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