May 2013
6 posts
Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will...
– Eckhart Tolle (via scout)
State power is readily captured and used by the powerful. It is strange to build...
– Jacob Levy (via derrinyet)
April 2013
10 posts
I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.
– Mark Twain (via nathanielstuart)
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Too often, our rhetoric treats the religious impulse to public action as...
– Stephen L. Carter, Culture of Disbelief
March 2013
8 posts
"The Average Fourth Grader Is A Better Poet Than...
commovente:
While in graduate school at the University of Houston, I supplemented my income by working as a writer in residence for Writers in the Schools (WITS). I was with WITS for three years, during which I visited third, fourth, and fifth grade classrooms, and worked with groups of students visiting the Menil museum of art, the Houston Historical Society, and the Houston Arboretum.
When...
I should say that civilizations begin with religion and stoicism: they end with...
– Will Durant (via historical-nonfiction)
February 2013
12 posts
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It is amazing how complete is the delusion that beauty is goodness.
– Leo Tolstoy, The Kreutzer Sonata
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January 2013
11 posts
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It is difficult to resist the conclusion that 20th century man has decided to...
– Malcolm Muggeridge
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The success of science sometimes leads people to think that because we can...
– John Lennox, Beyond Opinion
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This uniqueness and singleness which distinguishes each individual and gives a...
– Victor Frankl,Man’s Search for Meaning
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Even after all this time,
the sun never says to the earth,
“You owe...
– Hafiz
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Fear is the cheapest room in the house.
I would like to see you living
In...
– Hafiz
10 tags
December 2012
3 posts