I ache for shared silence, not the awkward lulls in conversation where we reach for something- anything- to cover the tension of trying to be with too much of the other and too little of ourselves, but the moments of fullness that let each of us unfold and know who we really are.
- Unattributed
I long for silences with another where there is nothing to forgive or explain or justify, where we agree to abandon quickly spoken words for a time so we do not abandon ourselves or each other, the silences where no one asks me to choose between belonging to myself and being with the world.
- Oriah Mountain Dream
“The man who must brag for himself knows that no one else will”
Robin Hobb - The Farseer Trilogy
"The most profound things are said in the most simple and direct way"
- Philippe Halsman
"The dangerous man is the one who has only one idea, because then he'll fight and die for it."
- Francis Crick
"Do not seek to gain your value, seek to express it"
- Francisco D'Anconia
"Agnosticism, in fact, is not a creed, but a method, the essence of which lies in the rigorous application of a single principal....Positively the principle may be expressed: In matters of intellect, follow your reason as far as it will take you, without regard to any other consideration. And negatively: In matters of the intellect, do not pretend that conclusions are certain which are not demonstrated or demonstrable. That I take to be the agnostic faith, which if a man keep whole and undefiled, he shall not be ashamed to look the universe in the face, whatever the future may have in store for him."
- T. H. Huxley
"Be thee content O human race with the queer"
- Virgil
If you tell the truth you don't have to remember anything.
- Mark Twain
It is better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to open one's mouth and remove all doubt.
- Abraham Lincoln
Experience is not what happens to a man; it is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley
The degree to which someone can lose their mind is infinite.
- Julie Holland
The opposite of love is not hate, it's indifference. the opposite of art is not ugliness, it's indifference.
- Elie Wiesel
A true friend stabs you in the front.
- Oscar Wilde
"Don't ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive."
- Howard Thurman
"Innovation distinguishes between a leader and a follower."
- Steve Jobs
"Even if you're on the right track, you'll get run over if you just sit there."
- Will Rogers
"The best design explicitly acknowledges that you cannot disconnect the form from the material, the material informs the form"
- Jonathan Ive
"What can I possibly say that will be of any value to anybody else”
- Eleanor Roosevelt
"It would be easier to innumerate the items I do not believe in, than the other way around”
- Edward R. Murrow
"In talking to people, in listening to them, I have come to realize that I don't have a monopoly on the worlds problems, other have their share, often far, far bigger than mine”
- Edward R. Murrow
"What's in a book is not what the author thought he put into it, it's what you get out of it"
- William Golding
"If you want a happy ending it depends on where you stop the story"
- Orson Wells
"Sometimes anger is just really loud sadness."
- Ben Popken
"The state of craving for anything blocks all deeper experience. Nothing of value can happen to a mind which knows exactly what it wants. For nothing the mind can visualize and want is of much value."
- Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
That's the hard part, growing without growing apart or changing without it scaring the other person.
- Joaquin Phoenix via Her
"I just think that people are so weird about nudity and the human body. Sex is not bad, naked bodies are not bad and naked bodies don’t always have to be connected to sex." - Emily Browning (via raeraenjma)
"And if you're still breathing you're the lucky ones, 'cause most of us are heaving through corrupted lungs, setting fire to ourselves for fun”
- Daughter
"Not every little girl gets what she wants, the world couldn't support that many ballerinas.”
- Mad Men
“The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in try to adapt the world to himself. Therefor, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.”
- George Bernard Shaw
“You can’t talk yourself out of problems that you behave yourself into.”
Stephen Covey
"Don't do what you can't undo, until you've considered what you can't do once you've done it."
- Robin Hobb
I'll leave tomorrow's problems for tomorrow's me.
- One Punch Man
“The optimist thinks this is the best of all possible worlds. The pessimist fears it is true.
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
“We knew the world would not be the same. A few people laughed, a few people cried. Most people were silent. I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Bhagavad Gita; Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and, to impress him, takes on his multi-armed form and says, 'Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds.' I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.”
- J. Robert Oppenheimer
"Most people don't inherently want to be better, they want to be better for a reason."
- Unattributed
“The more cowardly a man is, the less predictable his behavior.”
-Vinland Saga
“Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.”
-Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger