December 2009
32 posts
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Nothing,” he claimed, “breeds radicalism more than unhappiness unless it is...
– John E. Edgerton
Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...
– Lao Tzu (via countryboylife)
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When FASCISM comes to America, it will be wrapped in the flag carrying a cross.
– Sinclair Lewis
Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.
– Oscar Wilde (via bookscakesnkisses) (via booklover)
The best way to become boring is to say everything. —Voltaire
– (via i8h) (via justjori)
A great many people think they are thinking when they are merely rearranging...
– William James (via tapwaterjackson)
All the secrets of the world are contained in books. Read at your own risk.
– Lemony Snicket (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via readbooks) (via booklover)
The earth is rude, silent, incomprehensible at first; Be not discouraged — keep...
– Walt Whitman (via nihilnoetia) (via rhea137)
Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via dostoyevsky) (via booklover)
He who risks and fails can be forgiven. He who never risks and never fails is a...
– Paul Tillich (via xineann)
The major difference between a thing that might go wrong and a thing that cannot...
– Douglas Adams (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word:...
– (via countryboylife)
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There is a theory which states that if ever anybody discovers exactly what the...
– Douglas Adams (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover)
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Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.
– Edward Abbey (via flapjacks4breakfastflannel4life)
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“A Woman Should Have” – by Maya Angelou →
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE .. enough money within her control to move out and rent a place of her own, even if she never wants to or needs to…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..
something perfect to wear if the employer, or date of her dreams wants to see her in an hour…
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE ..
a youth she’s content to leave behind….
A WOMAN SHOULD HAVE …
a past juicy enough that she’s looking forward to ...
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If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on...
– Lao Tzu (via justjori)
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Everyone, at some point in their lives, wakes up in the middle of the night with...
– Lemony Snicket (via quotewhore) (via kg13)
I love Lemony Snicket (although it seems to me my middle of the night or middle of my sleep sequence, or first thing in the morning fears are much more terrifying than this).
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You have your way. I have my way. As for the right way, the correct way, and the...
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (via kari-shma) (via irienandriani)
“The public have an insatiable curiosity to know everything, except what is...
– http://thinkexist.com/quotations/people/ (via whisperingwillow) (via sitasays)