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