Gottfried

"But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you...."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500

“But let there be spaces in your togetherness and let the winds of the heavens dance between you. Love one another but make not a bond of love: let it rather be a moving sea between the shores of your souls.”

- Kahlil Gibran (via styleandsubstance) (via resurgam)

"You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500

“You can’t build a reputation on what you’re going to do.”

- Henry Ford

"The best mirror is an old friend."

Mon, 30 Nov 2009 00:01:00 -0500

“The best mirror is an old friend.”

- George Herbert (via nihilnoetia)

"Beauty is power; a smile is its sword."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 22:01:52 -0500

“Beauty is power; a smile is its sword.”

- John Ray (via bitchville)

"Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:51:25 -0500

““Truth is incontrovertible. Ignorance can deride it, panic may resent it, malice may destroy it, but there it is.””

- Sir Winston Churchill

"Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:48:54 -0500

“Humanity has advanced, when it has advanced, not because it has been sober, responsible, and cautious, but because it has been playful, rebellious, and immature.”

-
Tom Robbins. Still Life With Woodpecker. (via adrienfield)

The latter is (sometimes unfortunately) a great descriptor of me recently. Until about 21, the former had me pinned. Life since 21 certainly has been a lot more fun!

(via xoxosweetheart)

"Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did”?"

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:47:35 -0500

“Will you look back on life and say, “I wish I had,” or “I’m glad I did”?”

- Zig Ziglar (via littlemiss)

"Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:52 -0500

“Art is a kind of innate drive that seizes a human being and makes him its instrument. The artist is not a person endowed with free will who seeks his own ends, but one who allows art to realize its purpose through him.”

- Carl Jung (via nihilnoetia)

lastchatwithphontaine: “Sky Kissed the Road to Black Mountain”...

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:46:32 -0500

lastchatwithphontaine:

“Sky Kissed the Road to Black Mountain” 23”x11” Acrylic on Panel

Roel Jovellanos

"If all creation rests upon a passion, it is for me also an act of love and an attempt to discover in..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:45:45 -0500

“If all creation rests upon a passion, it is for me also an act of love and an attempt to discover in myself an inner world.”

- Constantine Andreou (via nihilnoetia)

"It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:45:41 -0500

“It isn’t what people think that’s important, but the reason they think what they think.”

- Eugène Ionesco (via nihilnoetia)

"We’re fools whether we dance or not, so we might as well dance."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:44 -0500

“We’re fools whether we dance or not,
so we might as well dance.”

- Japanese Proverb (via thanksforstanding) (via nihilnoetia)

"Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:38 -0500

“Whenever a theory appears to you as the only possible one, take this as a sign that you have neither understood the theory nor the problem which it was intended to solve.”

- Karl Popper (via nihilnoetia)

"It’s good fishing in troubled waters."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:12 -0500

“It’s good fishing in troubled waters.”

- Peter of Blois (via nihilnoetia)

robot-heart: Lions gate bridge from stanley park (via sparth)

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 21:43:01 -0500

robot-heart:

Lions gate bridge from stanley park (via sparth)

"Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be thou exalted,”..."

Sun, 29 Nov 2009 10:00:00 -0500

“Let the seeking man reach a place where life and lips join to say continually, “Be thou exalted,” and a thousand minor problems will be solved at once.”

- Aiden Wilson Tozer (via nihilnoetia)

"People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:38:05 -0500

“People want to see patterns in the world. It is how we evolved. We descended from those primates who were best at spotting the telltale pattern of a predator in the forest, or of food in the savannah. So important is this skill that we apply it everywhere, warranted or not.”

- Benoît Mandelbrot (via nihilnoetia)

"Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:37:09 -0500

“Fearing no insult, asking for no crown, receive with indifference both flattery and slander, and do not argue with a fool.”

- Aleksandr Pushkin (via nihilnoetia)

"Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:36:56 -0500

“Every day sends to their graves a number of obscure men who have only remained obscure because their timidity has prevented them from making a first effort.”

- Sydney Smith (via nihilnoetia)

"The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is..."

Sat, 28 Nov 2009 00:35:30 -0500

“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the most you can do is live inside that hope. Not admire it from a distance, but live right in it, under its roof.”

- Barbara Kingsolver (via littlemiss)