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I post what I find interesting here. :) Sometimes I'm on www.toynbeeconvector.wordpress.com
I like books, space, food, Ray Bradbury, animals, languages and strangers. Also, I can't imagine a world without music.
I post what I find interesting here. :) Sometimes I'm on www.toynbeeconvector.wordpress.com
I like books, space, food, Ray Bradbury, animals, languages and strangers. Also, I can't imagine a world without music.
"Do not depend on the hope of results. … you may have to face the fact that your work will be apparently worthless and even achieve no result at all, if not perhaps results opposite to what you expect. As you get used to this idea, you start more and more to concentrate not on the results but on the value, the rightness, the truth of the work itself."
Thomas Merton in a letter to Jim Forest dated February 21, 1966, reproduced in The Hidden Ground of Love: Letters by Thomas Merton. Thank you The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
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#soul
#work
"You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality."
Ayn Rand (via misswallflower)
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"There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping them when they bore you, skipping the parts that drag-and never, never reading anything because you feel you ought, or because it is part of a trend or a movement. Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you. "
Doris Lessing (via thefieldjournal, booklover)
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"The moment you feel you are no longer dependent on anyone, a deep coolness and a deep silence settles inside, a relaxed let-go. It does not mean you stop loving. On the contrary, for the first time you know a new quality, a new dimension of love—a love that is no longer biological, a love that is closer to friendliness than any relationship. That’s why I am not even using the word friendship, because that “ship” has drowned so many people"
Osho (via heartmindspirit)
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(Source: lucifelle, via heartmindawakening)
"In historical events great men - so called - are but the labels that serve to give a name to an event, and like labels, they have the last possible connection with the event itself. Every action of theirs, that seems to them an act of their own free will, is in an historical sense not free at all, but in bondage to the whole course of previous history, and predestined all eternity."
Leo Nikolaevich Tolstoi, War and Peace (via whateverhelpsyousleepatnight)
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"And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt."
Sylvia Plath (via deadwriters)
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“There’s a few things I’ve learned in life: always throw salt over your left shoulder, keep rosemary by your garden gate, plant lavender for good luck, and fall in love whenever you can” (by Julia Davila “Chaulafanita”)
