January 2012
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Why cats are better than dogs:
“The cat is for the man who feels sufficient in the cosmos, and asks no scruples of conventional prejudice, but loves repose and strength and freedom and luxury and sufficiency and contemplation; who as a strong fearless soul wishes something to respect instead of something to lick his face and accept his alternate blows and strokings; who seeks a proud and beautiful equal in the peerage...
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“Celebrate aloneness, celebrate your pure space, and a great song will arise in...”
– Osho, Meditation: the First and Last Freedom.
“I put down my book, The Meaning of Zen, and see the cat smiling into her fur as...”
– Dilys Laing, “Miao”
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“Too often we enjoy the comfort of opinion without the discomfort of thought.”
– John F. Kennedy (via very-quotable)
December 2011
90 posts
Howl’s Moving Castle - Joe Hisaishi
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“In most of our human relationships, we spend much of our time reassuring one...”
– Ram Dass (via astrometry)
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“As I see it, almost everybody is in the wrong place. The person who would have...”
– Osho, Meditation: The First and Last Freedom
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““Books are mirrors: you only see in them what you already have inside you.””
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via horrorparadox)
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“A Wanderer is a Hermit in Motion; a hermit is a wanderer at rest.”
– Tales of Azad (via lucifelle)
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I have claimed that Escape is one of the main functions of fairy-stories, and since I do not disapprove of them, it is plain that I do not accept the tone of scorn or pity with which ‘Escape’ is now so often used… Why should a man be scorned if, finding himself in prison, he tries to get out and go home? Or if he cannot do so, he thinks and talks about other topics than...
“Our integrity sells for so little, but it is all we really have. It is the very...”
– Valerie - V for Vendetta
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“What is more beautiful than night
and someone in your arms
that’s what we love...”
– “to you,” Frank O’hara (via nonboingy)
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“People speak sometimes about the “bestial” cruelty of man, but that is terribly...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky (via mirroir)
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“You must not lose faith in humanity. Humanity is an ocean; if a few drops of the...”
– Mohandas Gandhi (via thenocturnals)
“…The value of life for ordinary, everyday man is based only on his taking...”
– Human, All Too Human Part I by Nietzsche (via thedailynietzsche)
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“Perhaps all the dragons in our lives are princesses who are only waiting to see...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, from “Letters to a Young Poet”
“Literature is always personal, always one man’s vision of the world, one man’s...”
– W. B. Yeats, The Irish Dramatic Movement (via bookoasis)
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“You enable me, by your least
remark, to unclutter myself, and my
nerves thank...”
– Frank O’Hara, from “A Letter to Bunny”
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“Your soul is oftentimes a battlefield, upon which your reason and your judgment...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via growing-orbits)
Fellow readers:
I’m just starting up a Goodreads account, and I’m so lonely! Winter break is staring me in the face so I’ve decided to turn to some fiction. I’d love to see your recommendations! Add me at http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/7020972-krystal-michele, if you’d be so inclined. :)
“You have to willingly and even enthusiastically consider a wide range of...”
– Christopher Phillips, author of Constitution Cafe: Jefferson’s Brew for a True Revolution, quoted on NPR’s Weekend Edition [listen to the story].
(via wwnorton)
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J. R. R. Tolkien reads an excerpt from The Lord...
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“You have not known what you are;
you have slumbered upon yourself all
your...”
– Walt Whitman (excerpt, To You)
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“There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: “The...”
– John Rogers (via tiriths)