January 2011
45 posts
“Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise...”
– Stephen Colbert (via thechocolatebrigade)
I’m taking a class on wisdom in university. My professor explained that wisdom comes in part from the direction you look. Young people tend to view their lives in terms of their birth, but as a person gets older, he or she tends to start framing their life...
Most creative idea ever in case your camera is...
a constantly evolving portrait of human emotion. →
“The circumstances of existence are pretty glorious.”
– Jack Kerouac (via violasaurus)
“Loneliness as a situation can be corrected, but as a state of mind it is an...”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via spiracles)
“the EARTH without ART is just eh.”
– (via helllobeautifull)
“Let the beauty we love be what we do. There are hundreds of ways to kneel and...”
– Rumi (via dondante)
20 Untranslatable Words from Around the World →
1. Toska
Russian – Vladmir Nabokov describes it best: “No single word in English renders all the shades of toska. At its deepest and most painful, it is a sensation of great spiritual anguish, often without any specific cause. At less morbid levels it is a dull ache of the soul, a longing with nothing to long for, a sick pining, a vague restlessness, mental throes, yearning. In particular...
anatomy
dondante:
just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But they are both equally true.
giacometti →
looking ahead →
closer to the sun and far from the moon.: my mind... →
-crybaby:
“Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic…
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