November 2011
24 posts
If
If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you; If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, But make allowance for their doubting too: If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies, Or being hated don’t give way to hating, And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise;
If you can dream—and not make dreams your...
“Be careful, Patrick. Being an artist is a heavy responsibility. Each work of art...”
– Spongebob Squarepants (via glyphhound)
Aardonyx
projectnarcissus:
I know now why you drink tea from a mug, rather than a standard cup. There just isn’t enough tea in a standard cup. You get stuck having to make 2 cups, which is tedious and annoying. So I’m going to invest in a very large mug.
“Time is too slow for those who wait, too swift for those who fear, too long for...”
– —Henry Van Dyke (via brain-o-gasm)
“The aim of education should be to teach us rather how to think, than what to...”
– Bill Beattie
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Albert Einstein
““Weapons are the tools of violence;
all decent men detest them.
...”
– Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering...”
– Lao-Tzu
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you...”
– Mark Twain
“Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules.
Mathematics is a game with...”
– ???
“He who has the courage to laugh is almost as much a master of the world as he...”
– Giacomo Leopardi
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisioned by the...”
– J.R.R. Tolkien (via s0nata)
“Do you have the patience to wait until your mud settles and the water is clear?...”
– Lao Tzu (via thanatesque)
Me? I’ve had so many names… Old names that only the wind and the trees can pronounce. I am the mountain, the forest and the earth. I am… I am a faun.
- Pan, “Pan’s Labrynth”
