“Life is pleasant. Life is good. The mere process of life is satisfactory. Take the ordinary man in good health. He likes eating and sleeping. He likes the snuff of fresh air and walking at a brisk pace down the Strand. Or in the country there’s a cock crowing on a gate; there’s a foal galloping round a field. Something always has to be done next. Tuesday follows Monday; Wednesday Tuesday. Each spreads the same ripple of well-being, repeats the same curve of rhythm; covers fresh sand with a chill or ebbs a little slackly without. So the being grows rings; identity becomes robust. What was fiery and furtive like a fling of grain cast into the air and blown hither and thither by wild gusts of life from every quarter is now methodical and orderly and flung with a purpose - so it seems.”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via bookmania)
“ Knowledge comes by eyes always open and working hard, and there is no knowledge that is not power. ”
– Jeremy Taylor (via quotedojo)
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“A man who does not know foreign language is ignorant of his own.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via quotedojo)
“It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good; to know how to create is better.”
– Henri Poincaré (via sociologic)
“ Persistence is the twin sister of excellence. One is a matter of quality the other, a matter of time. ”
– Marabel Morga (via quotedojo)
“Everyone tells stories around here. Every place, every person has a ring of stories around them, like a halo almost. People have told me tales ever since I was a tiny girl… They have talked to me, and talked to me. Some I’ve forgotten, but most I remember. And so my memory goes back before my birth.”
– Shirley Ann Grau, The Keepers of the House (via litverve)
“ It matters if you just don’t give up. ”
– Stephen William Hawking (via quotedojo)
“While gazing at myself from yourself, I was beautiful.”
– Dejan Stojanovic, The Shape (via petrichour)
“Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and you watch and you work: You don’t give up.”
– Anne Lamott (via quote-book)
The Nile by Erte (Romain de Tirtoff), costume design
“Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.”
– Jo Ann Beard (via mirroir)
“The love of books. My library is an archive of longings.”
– Susan Sontag, As Consciousness Is Harnessed to Flesh (via light-essence)
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