joie de vivre

[fyp-philosophy]

We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark. The real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.

Plato  (via fyp-philosophy)

[fyp-philosophy]

“We often have to explain to young people why study is useful. It’s pointless telling them that it’s for the sake of knowledge, if they don’t care about knowledge. Nor is there any point in telling them that an educated person gets through life better than an ignoramus, because they can always point to some genius who, from their standpoint, leads a wretched life. And so the only answer is that the exercise of knowledge creates relationships, continuity, and emotional attachments. It introduces us to parents other than our biological ones. It allows us to live longer, because we don’t just remember our own life but also those of others. It creates an unbroken thread that runs from our adolescence (and sometimes from infancy) to the present day. And all this is very beautiful.

Umberto Eco (via wordsnquotes)

[thedesigndome]

A Single Book Can Alter The Strongest Of Foundations

Installation artist Jorge Mendez Blake creates a powerful brick sculpture titled “The Castle”. The intimidating wall, formidable and erect, loses its symmetry and forms a rift at the point where a book it inserted at its root. 

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[whiskeyandlife]

Change begins with you. Don’t wait for ‘somebody,’ they aren’t coming.

Wanna change the world? (via whiskeyandlife)

[death-by-elocution]

[wordsnquotes]

You’re seeking something, but at the same time, you are running away for all you’re worth.

Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via wordsnquotes)

[death-by-elocution]

[transcendent-one]

[sandandglass]

The Nightly Show, September 24, 2015

[beeslikehoney]

[wnq-writers]

She’s my cup of tea but she carries the scent of coffee, she’s confusing in the most delicate and dangerous of ways.

VàZaki Nada (via wnq-writers)

[wordsnquotes]

You never know what worse luck your bad luck has saved you from.

Cormac McCarthy, No Country for Old Men  (via wordsnquotes)

Perspective.

[wordsnquotes]

I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast from dust and whose smell I carry on my hands to this day.

Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow Of The Wind  (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

You’re not a kid anymore. You have the right to choose your own life. You can start again. If you want a cat, all you have to do is choose a life in which you can have a cat. It’s simple. It’s your right.

Haruki Murakami, The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (via wordsnquotes)

[cosmicwizdom]

I can relate to this…

[wordsnquotes]

If you don’t like to read, you haven’t found the right book.

J.K. Rowling  (via wordsnquotes)

[wasforcenturies-deactivated2016]

Okay but have you ever been at a concert and that one song comes on and you start singing along to it, almost bursting into tears because you love it and you’re so overwhelmed your favorite band is on stage cause that’s a good feeling and I cherish that