October 2010
63 posts
It doesn’t matter how long we may have been stuck in a sense of our limitations....
– Sharon Salzberg
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September 2010
55 posts
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If sensuality were happiness, beasts were happier than men; but human felicity...
– Seneca
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Life isn’t weird: it’s just the people in it.
Automobiles are not ferocious…. it is man who is to be feared.
– Robbins B. Stoeckel
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The guy who invented the first wheel was an idiot. The guy who invented the...
– Sid Caesar
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Without craftsmanship, inspiration is a mere reed shaken in the wind
– Johannes Brahms
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This overcoming of all the usual barriers between the individual and the...
– William Jane
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One impulse from a vernal wood
May teach you more of man,
Of moral evil and of...
– William Wordsworth, “The Tables Turned,” 1798
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We must embrace pain and burn it as fuel for our journey.
– Kenji Miyazawa
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Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone
– Dorothy Parker
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
– Vincent Van Gogh
Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known.
– Oscar Wilde
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Art enables us to find ourselves and lose ourselves at the same time.
– Thomas Merton
One should either be a work of art, or wear a work of art.
– Oscar Wilde
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A tattoo is a true poetic creation, and is always more than meets the eye. As...
– ~V. Vale and Andrea Juno, ‘Modern Primitives’
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We can communicate an idea around the world in 70 seconds, but it sometimes...
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Zombies eat brains. Don’t worry — you’re safe!
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Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under the trees on a...
– John Lubbock
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I soon realized that no journey carries one far unless, as it extends into the...
– Lillian Smith
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Happiness is a journey, not a destination.
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Letting go doesn’t mean giving up, but rather accepting that there are...
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The best kind of friend is the kind you can sit on a porch swing with, never say...
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When assuming the throne, great kings are not judged by how many good changes...
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You can’t cross the sea merely by standing and staring at the water....
– Rabindranath Tagore
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