May 2011
33 posts
“When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to...”
– John Lennon (via thepapercranes)
“The Universe is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be. Our contemplations of...”
– Carl Sagan (via light-essence)
withinaframe:
Do not believe in a thing because you have read about it in a book. Do not believe in a thing because another man has said it was true. Do not believe in words because they are hallowed by tradition. Find out the truth for yourself.
Buddha
withinaframe:
Look to this day! For it is life, the very life of life. In its brief course lie all the verities and realities of your existence The bliss of growth, The glory of action, The splendour of beauty; For yesterday is but a dream, And tomorrow is only a vision; But today well lived Makes every yesterday a dream of happiness, And every tomorrow a vision of hope. Look...
“With our thoughts, we make our world.”
– Buddha (via withinaframe)
“If, at first, an idea is not absurd,
there is no hope for it.”
– Albert Einstein (via withinaframe)
“Only those who risk going too far can possibly find out how far they can go.”
– T. S. Elliot (via withinaframe)
withinaframe:
We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank
Struggle teaches the greatest of virtues.
“No longer enslaved or made dependent by force of law, the great majority are so...”
– John Stuart Mill, whose thoughts on property and oppression are about a million times more interesting than that of America’s Second Dumbest Senator.
In ways that Mill may not have intended, I think this makes the point that meaningful self-determinination (or self-ownership, for those used to...
“Absurdity is one of the most human things about us: a manifestation of our most...”
– Thomas Nagel, relevant to my interests. (via ilyagerner)
“Knowledge speaks, but wisdom listens.”
– Jimi Hendrix (via kari-shma)
“There is a theory which states that if ever anyone discovers exactly what the...”
– Douglas Adams (via awakeinthedream)
