Happiness is a nothingness without completeness (Hlovate, Contengan Jalanan)
I’ve been poked and prodded in places I’d always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday
I’ve been poked and prodded in places I’d always prided myself on keeping untouched for that one special doctor who gives me a ring and a promise someday. (Libba Bray)
I don’t understand your book. Isn’t every book a book of words? – Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
I don’t understand your book. Isn’t every book a book of words? – Kristin Cashore, Bitterblue
Never give up but never forget to grow up
Never give up but never forget to grow up (Debasish Mridha)
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness
Blessed be childhood which brings down something of heaven into the midst of our rough earthliness. (Henri Amiel)
Why do you look like that, Duane?””Like what, Cletus?””Like your heart is diseased
Why do you look like that, Duane?””Like what, Cletus?””Like your heart is diseased. (Penny Reid, Truth or Beard)
A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious
A boddhisattva is someone who is on the way to becoming a buddha. All of us become boddhisattvas as soon as we start to take our Zen work seriously and the work we do contributes to creating a world in which all good actions become more efficacious. (David Brazier)
My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony
My heart had melted into something akin to a sensation of happiness, peace of mind one might even say, at the realization that I had now reached the very bottom of agony (Dazai Osamu, Shayou)
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme
From the beginnings of literature, poets and writers have based their narratives on crossing borders, on wandering, on exile, on encounters beyond the familiar. The stranger is an archetype in epic poetry, in novels. The tension between alienation and assimilation has always been a basic theme (Jhumpa Lahiri)
Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph
Intellectually secure people do not need to show anyone how smart they are. They are empirical and seek truth. Intellectually insecure people need to show everyone how smart they are. They are egotistical and seek triumph (Kevin Ashton, How to Fly a Horse: The Secret History of Creation, Invention, and Discovery)