Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever.
— Mohandas Gandhi (via #johannal) (via quote-book)
Along the way you bump into people who make a dent on your life. Some people get struck by lightning. Some are born to sit by a river. Some have an ear for music. Some are artists. Some swim the English Channel. Some know buttons. Some know Shakespeare. Some are mothers. And some people can dance.
— The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via seashelllz)
When the day empties
and the last light drains away
I need you with me.
— Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott) (via quote-book)
A Moveable Feast
As I ate the oysters with their strong taste of the sea and their faint metallic taste that the cold white wine washed away, leaving only the sea taste and the succulent texture, and as I drank their cold liquid from each shell and washed it down with the crisp taste of the wine, I lost the empty feeling and began to be happy, and to make plans.”
— Ernest Hemingway
Oysters, nyom, nyom. My favourite food
I didn’t know I was standing in the dark, until you switched the light on
— Artsmonkey 2009
To fall in love is easy, even to remain in it is not difficult; our human loneliness is cause enough. But it is a hard quest worth making to find a comrade through whose steady presence one becomes steadily the person one desires to be.
— Anna Louise Strong (via thresca) (via quote-book)
Making your mark on the world is hard. If it were easy, everybody would do it. But it’s not. It takes patience, it takes commitment, and it comes with plenty of failure along the way. The real test is not whether you avoid this failure, because you won’t. It’s whether you let it harden or shame you into inaction, or whether you learn from it; whether you choose to persevere.
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Barack Obama (via robot-heart) (via jessicachu) (via liketearsinrain)
Saturday wisdom/food for thought
I don’t think there’s any artist of any value who doesn’t doubt what they’re doing.
— Francis Ford Coppola (via yaffle)
