"All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes and make them possible."
— T. E. Lawrence, British army officer
- 1 week ago
"If a person has ugly thoughts, it begins to show on the face. And when that person has ugly thoughts every day, every week, every year, the face gets uglier and uglier until you can hardly bear to look at it. A person who has good thoughts cannot ever be ugly. You can have a wonky nose and a crooked mouth and a double chin and stick-out teeth, but if you have good thoughts they will shine out of your face like sunbeams and you will always look lovely."
— Roald Dahl, The Twits (via 12mocking-jays)
(Source: soiranawaytowonderland)
- 3 weeks ago
- 189
"Even cowards can endure hardship; only the brave can endure suspense."
— Mignon McLaughlin, (June 6, 1913 - December 20, 1983) American journalist and author
- 1 month ago
"Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore."
— Andre Gide
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"All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them."
— Galileo Galilei
- 1 month ago
thingskeepchanging: You can’t start the next chapter of your life if you keep re-reading the last one.
- 3 months ago
- 24
"To say ‘I love you’ one must first know how to say the ‘I.’ The meaning of the ‘I’ is an independent, self-sufficient entity that does not exist for the sake of any other person. A person who exists only for the sake of his loved one is not an independent entity, but a spiritual parasite. The love of a parasite is worth nothing."
— Ayn Rand’s definition of love. She is the author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged. To read more on this, click on this link.
- 3 months ago
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“One must always be careful of books and what is inside them, for words have the power to change us.” - Tessa Gray, Clockwork Angel by Cassandra Clare
(Source: uselesslittlethings)
- 4 months ago
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"Experience has shown, and a true philosophy will always show, that a vast, perhaps the larger portion of the truth arises from the seemingly irrelevant."
— Edgar Allan Poe
- 6 months ago
- 35
"In criticism I will be bold, and as sternly, absolutely just with friend and foe. From this purpose nothing shall turn me."
— Edgar Allan Poe
- 6 months ago
"A fact is a simple statement that everyone believes. It is innocent, unless found guilty. A hypothesis is a novel suggestion that no one wants to believe. It is guilty, until found effective."
— Edward Teller
- 6 months ago
- 106
" Loneliness is the human condition. Cultivate it. The way it tunnels into you allows your soul room to grow. Never expect to outgrow loneliness. Never hope to find people who will understand you, someone to fill that space. And intelligent, sensitive person is the exception, the very great exception. If you expect to find people who will understand you, you will grow murderous with disappointment. The best you’ll ever do is to understand yourself, know what it is that you want, and not let the cattle stand in your way."
— Janet Fitch (via lightmeter)
(Source: slekes)
- 7 months ago
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