October 2010
1 post
And one has to understand that braveness is not the absence of fear but rather...
– Paulo Coelho
August 2010
104 posts
I think it happens to everyone as they grow up. You find out who you are and...
– Nicholas Sparks (True Believer)
sixbillionsecrets:
I am a 13 year old nerd. I love my video games, and I love my sci-fi movies. I wear sweater vests and I’m not ashamed. And I stand up against racists, sexists and homophobics. I get plenty of stares as if I’m crazy, but I’m proud of myself. I’m different, and so are you. So stand out from the crowd and do your own dance. I’m proud of you.
When you lose touch with inner stillness, you lose touch with yourself. When you...
– Eckhart Tolle
Featuring a book on your bookshelf is akin to displaying a trophy. You’ve...
Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart. Who looks...
– Carl Jung
‘Don’t let the chains of the world keep you down. Cast them off, and...
Do you think the penis ever gets tired?”
Whose?
Anybody’s. I mean anybody with...
Put all your eggs in one basket… the handle’s going to break. Then all you’ve...
If you judge people, you have no time to love them.
– Mother Teresa
It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present...
– Sherrilyn Kenyon
I think sometimes fate cuts you a break. Like it says, okay, you’ve had enough...
If you tell me I’m sensible in addition to normal and wise, I’m going to punch...
A human being is like a novel: until the last page you don’t know how it will...
– Yevgeny Zamyatin (We)
Books are masters who instruct us without rods or ferules, without words or...
– — Richard de Bury (The Love of Books The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury)
Regrets are a waste of time. They’re the past crippling you in the present.
– Katherine, Under the Tuscan Sun
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice:...
– — Paul Auster (The Brooklyn Follies)
Take no heed of her…. She reads a lot of books.
– Jasper Fforde, The Eyre Affair
To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from...
– W. Somerset Mougham
I want a life that sizzles and pops and makes me laugh out loud. And I don’t...
– Shauna Niequist
You must not let yourself become too respectable. Keep yourself a little wild....