So Various, So Beautiful

I'm not like all the other bookish young things, really I'm not, I stand utterly apart from the horde, really I do

[sovarious-sobeautiful]

It's strange how the human mind swings back and forth, from one extreme to another. Does truth lie at some point of the pendulum's swing, at a point where it never rests, not in the dull perpendicular mean where it dangles in the end like a windless flag, but at an angle, nearer one extreme than another? If only a miracle could stop the pendulum at an angle of sixty degrees, one would believe the truth was there.

Graham Greene, The End of the Affair

[stoweboyd]

If you want to build a ship, don’t drum up the people to gather wood, divide the work, and give orders. Instead, teach them to yearn for the vast and endless sea.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

(via stoweboyd)

[stoicremains-deactivated2017102]

Let everything happen to you. Beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

Rainer Maria Rilke (via wethinkwedream)

[milosurreal]

It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how much you love them.

 Agatha Christie, An Autobiography (via rainismyremedy)

[infinitenap]

a scarf that wants to be worn

[deactivated-blog]

The essence of philosophy is that a man should so live that his happiness shall depend as little as possible on external things.

Epictetus (via smallhomeideas)

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[words4life-words4love]

It’s dark because you are trying too hard. Lightly child, lightly. Learn to do everything lightly. Yes, feel lightly even though you’re feeling deeply. Just lightly let things happen and lightly cope with them. I was so preposterously serious in those days… Lightly, lightly – it’s the best advice ever given me…So throw away your baggage and go forward. There are quicksands all about you, sucking at your feet, trying to suck you down into fear and self-pity and despair. That’s why you must walk so lightly. Lightly my darling…

Aldous Huxley

[sovarious-sobeautiful]

Hardly anybody is good. But you are. I saw it in your face.

The Road Home - Rose Tremain

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[beeplusdub]

I just have to share because this is the coolest of all the websites. You type in a book that you liked and it brings up a list of at least 10 books that you would probably enjoy as well.

So if you’re looking for a good read, check it out. www.whatshouldireadnext.com

[creatingaquietmind-deactivated2]

“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard because it requires the inner disposition to go with others to places where they are weak, vulnerable, lonely, and broken. But this is not our spontaneous response to suffering. What we desire most is to do away with suffering by fleeing from it or finding a quick cure for it.”

Henri Nouwen (via creatingaquietmind)

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