“Intellect ties people in knots and risks nothing, but love dissolves all tangles and risks everything. Intellect is always cautious and advises, ‘Beware too much ecstasy’, whereas love says, ‘Oh never mind! Take the plunge!’ Intellect does not easily break down, whereas love can effortlessly reduce itself to rubble. But treasures are hidden among the ruins. A broken heart hides treasures.”
—from The Forty Rules of Love ~ Elif Shafak.
March 2010
23 posts
“We have not wings, we cannot soar; but, we have feet to scale and climb, by slow degrees, by more and more, the cloudy summits of our time.”
—Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via reluctantbuddha)
“The best thing about the future is that it comes one day at a time.”
—Abraham Lincoln (via quote-book)
“I’d rather live with a good question than a bad answer.”
—Aryeh Frimer (via @buddhist_karma)
“To the mind that is still, the whole universe surrenders.”
—Lao Tzu (via @JosephRanseth @iamwun)
“Never underestimate the power of a small group of committed people to change the world. In fact, it is the only thing that ever has.”
—Margaret Mead (via @frombecca)
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via @Iconic88)
“Our greatest glory is not in never failing, but in rising up every time we fail.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
“The man who removes a mountain begins by carrying away small stones.”
—William Faulkner (via @Iconic88)
“What ever the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.”
—Napoleon Hill (via @Iconic88)
“A random scrap of information can trigger just the right conceptual collision. It’s hard to know which scrap might do the trick, but that’s the beauty of social networks — they constantly produce potential sparks, for free”
—How Twitter and Facebook Make Us More Productive | Wired Magazine (via interestingsnippets) (via wildcat2030)
“Man’s mind, once stretched by a new idea, never regains its original dimension.”
—Oliver Wendell Holmes (via @StephCalahan)
“A friend is someone who knows the song in your heart and can sing it back to you when you’ve forgotten the words.”
—Felice Dunas
“Decide that there is always a way, and you’ll find that there is.”
—Shawn Nelson (via oxymoronparanoia) (via inspirationtumblr)
“The best way out is always through.”
—Robert Frost (via inspirationtumblr) (via inspireyourdream)
“Zen proverb: Student says ’ I am very discouraged. What should I do?’ Master says, ‘Encourage others’. ;)”
—(via @Pierre_Paperon)
“For it was not into my ear you whispered, but into my heart. It was not my lips you kissed, but my soul.”
—Judy Garland (via @joegoldfarb)
February 2010
27 posts
“If people were superior to animals, they’d take better care of the world.”
—Winnie the Pooh
“Knowing is not enough; we must apply. Willing is not enough; we must do.”
—Bruce Lee (via @LillyAnn)
