May 2012
2 posts
April 2012
6 posts
March 2012
3 posts
“Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry...”
– In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson...
“Sometimes a door slammed in the face creates just the right gust of wind to turn...”
– Danielle Raquiza (via inspiri)
February 2012
4 posts
January 2012
11 posts
“A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy (via prettybooks)
“From the garden rose the sound of bees
that lurched and wobbled through the...”
– Michael Lavers, Coda (via grammatolatry)
December 2011
15 posts
“There aren’t shortcuts. Merely direct paths. Most people don’t take them,...”
– Seth Godin (via ingwaybee)
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...”
– Edith Sitwell
“Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice
the ring that’s landed on your...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy” (via hatsfordimes)
“Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...”
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via quote-book)
“Have I ever told you about the first time I saw you? Everything was young back...”
–
Greg Forrester, “Star-cross’d”
(via quote-book)
“I love that feeling. You know, the one you get when you take a deep breath and...”
– The X (via ishainparis)
“The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...”
– Albert Camus (via girlwithoutwings)
“I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....”
– Robert Walser, The Tanners (via suzywire)
“No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what...”
– Socrates (via nathanielstuart)
“I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of...”
– Clarissa Vaughan - The Hours (via annapalindroma)
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
“I don’t believe that old cliché that good things come to those who wait. I think...”
– Ashton Kutcher (via thoughtsdetained)
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September 2011
4 posts
4 tags
August 2011
8 posts
“My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person...”
– Elif Baufman in Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on “great books” that aren’t great. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine (via housingworksbookstore)