“Uncertainty, in the presence of vivid hopes and fears, is painful, but must be endured if we wish to live without the support of comforting fairy tales… To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralysed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing.”
—Bertrand Russell (Thank you, dhammanovice, human-voices, saber-y-conocer, & sharanam)
February 2011
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“Paris at Night
Three matchsticks lit one by one in the night
The first to see the whole of your face
The second to see your eyes
The third to see your mouth
And complete darkness to remember this all
With you locked in my arms” —Jacques Prévert. Paris at Night. (via anotherword)
Three matchsticks lit one by one in the night
The first to see the whole of your face
The second to see your eyes
The third to see your mouth
And complete darkness to remember this all
With you locked in my arms” —Jacques Prévert. Paris at Night. (via anotherword)
“I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library.”
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Jorge Luis Borges
(via artemisdreaming)
“You were born with wings. Why prefer to crawl through life?”
—Rumi (via ohwurrd)
“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one.”
—Richard Dawkins (via ageofreason)
“Stop lying to children - Break the cycle of religion”
—A Bumper Sticker (via ageofreason)
“The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.”
—George Bernard Shaw (via ageofreason)
“Duration is the continuous progress of the past which gnaws into the future and which swells as it advances.”
—Henri Bergson, Creative Evolution (via digitalpidgin)
