Tag: quotations

• Truth gains more even by the errors of one who, with due study and preparation, thinks for himself, than by the true opinions of those who only hold them because they do not suffer themselves to think.

  2014-03-01

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• March came in that winter like the meekest and mildest of lambs, bringing days that were crisp and golden and tingling, each followed by a frosty pink twilight which gradually lost itself in an elfland of moonshine.

  2014-03-01

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• My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart.

  2014-02-25

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• Try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or book written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is, to live everything. Live the questions now.

  2014-02-22

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  Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters to a Young Poet, 1927 from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1h9MZfq via IFTTT

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• We may encounter many defeats but we must not be defeated.

  2014-02-22

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• No person is your friend who demands your silence, or denies your right to grow.

  2014-02-22

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• To see a World in a Grain of Sand And a Heaven in a Wild Flower, Hold Infinity in the palm of your hand And Eternity in an hour.

  2014-02-22

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• My candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But, ah, my foes, and, oh, my friends — It gives a lovely light.

  2014-02-22

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  Edna St. Vincent Millay from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1f8nE10 via IFTTT

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• Life is short and truth works far and lives long: let us speak the truth.

  2014-02-22

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• The breaking of a wave cannot explain the whole sea.

  2014-02-22

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  Vladimir Nabokov, from The Real Life of Sebastian Knight (New Directions, 2008, first published in 1941) from Tumblr http://ift.tt/1nVWLTn via IFTTT

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• Before I learned martial arts, a punch was just a punch and a kick was just a kick. When I studied martial arts, a punch was no longer just a punch and a kick was no longer just a kick. Now I understand martial arts, and a punch is just a punch and a kick is just a kick.

  2014-02-21

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• We are beginning to see the influence of dream upon reality and reality upon dream.

  2014-02-21

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• Without Art, we should have no notion of the sacred; without Science, we should always worship false gods.

  2014-02-21

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• Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.

  2014-02-21

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