Showing posts with label Quote Collection. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Quote Collection. Show all posts
Saturday, November 16, 2013
Friday, August 30, 2013
Cloud Atlas - Quote Collection #6
Heads up, this is a looong post, but it's pretty easy to read. I've got here a great, big dollop of quotes for you today! Here are some beautiful words and bits of wisdom from Cloud Atlas by David Mitchell. This is definitely a book to read twice. It glints and glistens with intelligence.
"For though humanity's topsoil is fertile with talent, only one seed in ten thousand will ever flower--for want of discipline."
"hot glass office buildings where the blooms of youth harden into aged cacti like my penny-pinching brother."
"The Mighty Gibbon's assessment of history--'little more than the register of the crimes, follies, and misfortunes of mankind'-- ticker-taped by for no apparent reason."
"Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms round the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage."
"Oh, bein' young ain't easy 'cos ev'rythin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' you're puzzlin'n'anxin' for the first time."
"But a mountain you're plannin' on climbin' ain't the same as the one you ain't."
"Souls cross ages like clouds cross skies, an' tho' a cloud's shape nor hue nor size don't stay the same, it's still a cloud an' so is a soul."
"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."
" 'Fantasy. Lunacy.' All revolutions are, until they happen, then they are historical inevitabilities."
"I was not genomed to alter history, I told my fellow fugitive. Hae-Joo countered that no revolutionary ever was."
"Every nowhere is somewhere, Archivist."
"Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw."
"What wouldn't I give now for a never-changing map of the ever-constant ineffable? To possess, as it were, an atlas of clouds."
"Middle age is flown, but it is attitude, not years, that condemns one to the ranks of the Undead, or else proffers salvation. In the domain of the young there dwells many un Undead soul. They rush about so, their inner putrefaction is concealed for a few decades, that is all."
"Power, time, gravity, love. The forces that really kick ass are all invisible."
"Am a sentimental fool and I know it."
"We had run out of infinity."
"The nation-state is merely human nature inflated to monstrous proportions."
"She should understand, the artist lives in two worlds."
"E.'s character depends on which angle you're looking from, a quality of superior opals."
"Because a man like me has no business with this substance 'beauty,' yet here she is, in these soundproofed chambers of my heart."
"All boundaries are conventions, national ones too."
"Now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework."
"People are obscenities. Would rather be music than be a mass of tubes squeezing semisolids around itself for a few decades before becoming so dribblesome it'll no longer function."
"Strip back the beliefs pasted on by governesses, schools, and states, you find indelible truths at one's core."
"People of shifting character unnerve me & Mr. Wagstaff was one such."
"At dawn the waves looked like mountain ranges tipped with gold as sunbeams slanted low under burgundy clouds."
"Belief is both prize & battlefield, within the mind & in the mind's mirror, the world."
"He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain...& only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!"
"Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?"
Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Wednesday, June 19, 2013
Quote Collection #4
Bonjour tout le monde! Here's a classic quote and photo to brighten your day. And on another note, I'm currently in Brussels, Belgium on a family vacation, and I'll be off to Paris tomorrow, hence the French hello, so look forward to a European video diary once I get home!
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"Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving."~Albert Einstein
Sunday, June 9, 2013
Quote Collection #3
"There is another world, but it is in this one." -W.B. Yeats
I like to sample different worlds. I like to try on how they feel, like to test what they taste like, look like, sound like. When I get bored of the world that surrounds me, I slip into alternate ones as unobtrusively as I can. And I travel to all these different places, fueled by a stubborn sense of curiosity, through movies, music, books, and history.
Saturday, June 8, 2013
Quote Collection #2
"To accept duality is to earn identity. And identity is something that you are constantly earning. It is not just who you are. It is a process that you must be active in."
~Joss Whedon
"This contradiction, and this tension … it never goes away. And if you think that achieving something, if you think that solving something, if you think a career or a relationship will quiet that voice, it will not. If you think that happiness means total peace, you will never be happy. Peace comes from the acceptance of the part of you that can never be at peace. It will always be in conflict. If you accept that, everything gets a lot better."
~Joss Whedon
I was originally planning to make a page of all my favorite quotes, but I figured I'd rather publish them one by one so that they all get the individual attention they deserve.
First one up is a quote by Joss Whedon on accepting your inner contradictions. Lately I've been trying to choose between two or three polar identities I seem to have, but to no success. It's time to switch tactics and just "be all my selves," as Brain Pickings, the site where I discovered Whedon's quote, likes to say. Do yourself a favor, read that enlightening article here. Say no to one-dimensional personalities!
Thursday, January 24, 2013
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