February 2012
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
“It’s not the consumers’ job to know what they want.”
– Steve Jobs, responding to whether he did market research for the iPad
“It is a strange thing, after all, to be able to return to a moment, when it can...”
– Marilynne Robinson
“Don’t do anything by half. If you love someone, love them with all your...”
– Henry Rollins
“I have a simple philosophy: Fill what’s empty. Empty what’s full....”
– Alice Roosevelt Longworth
“There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them...”
– Marilynne Robinson
“The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such...”
–
Charles de Montesquieu
“People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“If we only wanted to be happy, it would be easy; but we want to be happier than...”
–
Charles de Montesquieu
“I have grown to love secrecy. It seems to be the one thing that can make modern...”
– Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via liquidnight)
“Our lives are quiet. We like to be disturbed by delight.”
– Sophia Grojsman
“I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I...”
– Marilynne Robinson, Gilead
“Listen: I am ideally happy. My happiness is a kind of challenge. As I wander...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Selected Letters, 1940-1977
