January 2012
89 posts
December 2011
118 posts
“Then you must teach my daughter this same lesson. How to lose your innocence but...”
– Charlotte Brontë, Villette (via siccus)
“Nothing is so likely to make a man’s fortune as virtue”
– Benjamin Franklin
“Want of modesty is want of sense.”
– Alexander Pope
“It is impossible to live without failing at something. Unless you live so...”
– J.K. Rowling (submitted by lostinthisdisguise)
“I want to overhear passionate arguments about what we are and what we are doing...”
– The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
“Granting evil, which it seems a dangerous error to consider solvable, human...”
– The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson
“Life is neither stationary nor easily understood.”
– Isaiah Berlin
“In order to recieve love, you have to be seen through and not just seen.”
– Great Books by David Denby
“Any man who can drive safely while kissing a pretty girl is simply not giving...”
– Albert Einstein (via quote-book)
“Yesterday I was clever, so I wanted to change the world. Today I am wise, so I...”
– Rumi (via musingsinfemininity)
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell (via human-voices)
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
– Carl Gustav Jung (via human-voices)
“I love snow for the same reason I love Christmas: It brings people together...”
– Rachel Cohn, Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares (via autumnejohnson)
“Modesty and shyness may be the most underrated virtues of modern society.”
– (via musingsinfemininity)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via troubled)
“For me personally, luxury equals having the right few things, and indulging in...”
– JD on luxury (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
“The things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at...”
– Elisabeth Elliot
(via sarahchaffee)
“Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...”
– Goodreads | Quote of the Day for December 20, 2011 (via vmburkhardt)
“Solitary men are accustomed, I suppose, unconsciously to look upon solitude as...”
– Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Episode from Master Humphrey’s Clock“ (via autumnejohnson)
“Zest is the secret of all beauty. There is no beauty that is attractive without...”
– Christian Dior (via bunnyyouremine)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via autumnejohnson)
“Have you ever heard the wonderful silence just before the dawn? Or the quiet and...”
– Norton Juster (via autumnejohnson)
“Books don’t change the world, people change the world, books only change people.”
– Mario Quintana (via quote-book)
“We must never confuse elegance with snobbery.”
– Yves Saint Laurent (via autumnejohnson)
“There is no more contemptible type of human character than that of the nerveless...”
– William James (@louieboy)
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via ireadintothings)
“In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are...”
– Maryanne Wolf (via human-voices)