“It’s not the size of the dog in the fight, it’s the size of the fight in the dog.”
Mark Twain
7 months ago | Permalink
“Если бы люди заботились о достижении гармонии и во всем полагались на Провидение, на душе у них было бы спокойно. Но поскольку люди не заботятся о достижении гармонии, хотя они и совершают добродетельные поступки, им недостает преданности. Быть не в ладах со своими соратниками, хотя бы изредка не посещать общие собрания, язвительно выражаться в адрес других — все это не от большого ума.”
Хагакурэ
9 months ago | Permalink
“We were not a hugging people. In terms of emotional comfort it was our belief that no amount of physical contact could match the healing powers of a well made cocktail.”
David Sedaris (via bbook)
1 year ago | Permalink
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes.”
Marcel Proust
1 year ago | Permalink
“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
Anais Nin (via momopotato)
(Source: greenapplesandpeaches)
1 year ago | Permalink
“It is better to light one candle than to curse the darkness.”
Chinese Proverb (via quote-book)
1 year ago | Permalink
“I’ve learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
Maya Angelou (via @johannal)
(Source: quote-book)
1 year ago | Permalink
“[A]bove all let there be pleasure. Let there be textural delight, let there be silken words and flinty words and sodden speeches and soaking speeches and crackling utterance and utterance that quivers and wobbles like rennet. Let there be rapid firecracker phrases and language that oozes like a lake of lava.”
Stephen Fry on not minding your language. From the same essay: “In life you have to explain wine. You have to explain cheese. You have to explain love. You can’t, but you have to try, or if not try you have, surely, to be aware of the astonishing fact of them.” (via bobulate)
1 year ago | Permalink
“We make a living by what we get but we make a life by what we give.”
Winston Churchill
1 year ago | Permalink
