Invincible Determination

"It is possible that we are rare, fleeting specks of awareness in an unfeeling cosmic desert, the..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 21:32:01 -0400

““It is possible that we are rare, fleeting specks of awareness in an unfeeling cosmic desert, the only witnesses to its wonder. It is also possible that we are living in a universal sea of sentience, surrounded by ecstasy and strife that is open to our influence. Sensible beings that we are, both possibilities should worry us.””

- Timo Hannay

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Sun, 05 May 2013 16:58:51 -0400

aseaofquotes: Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the...

Sat, 04 May 2013 22:12:47 -0400

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Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun

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Sat, 27 Apr 2013 07:23:10 -0400

"The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny..."

Tue, 23 Apr 2013 20:45:07 -0400

“The path of the righteous man is beset on all sides by the iniquities of the selfish and the tyranny of evil men. Blessed is he, who in the name of charity and good will, shepherds the weak through the valley of darkness, for he is truly his brother’s keeper and the finder of lost children. And I will strike down upon thee with great vengeance and furious anger those who would attempt to poison and destroy my brothers. And you will know my name is the Lord when I lay my vengeance upon thee.”

"The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone..."

Mon, 15 Apr 2013 23:38:58 -0400

“The reason we struggle with insecurity is because we compare our behind-the-scenes with everyone else’s highlight reel.”

- Steve Furtivk

"Every man has secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he..."

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 18:24:54 -0400

“Every man has secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Jay McInerney, Story of My Life

Sun, 14 Apr 2013 02:07:12 -0400

Jay McInerney, Story of My Life

aseaofquotes: Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

Sat, 23 Mar 2013 13:15:09 -0400

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Michael Ondaatje, The English Patient

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Sun, 10 Mar 2013 13:12:38 -0400

"Don’t try to understand women, women understand women and they hate each other."

Sun, 10 Feb 2013 21:42:06 -0500

“Don’t try to understand women, women understand women and they hate each other.”

"I don’t want to be thick-witted here. I understand that on some level a democracy generally elects..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 16:45:36 -0500

“I don’t want to be thick-witted here. I understand that on some level a democracy generally elects human leaders who will not abuse the spirit of the law. I think Barack Obama is such a leader. That is for the historians to determine. But practically, much of our foreign policy now depends on the hope of benevolent dictators and philosopher kings. The law can’t help. The law is what the kings say it is.”

- Ta-Nehisi Coates on Obama’s Drone Policy (via theatlantic)

"If you take it pretty much for fact (as I do) that in the next five years or so we’ll be able to use..."

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:04:29 -0500

“If you take it pretty much for fact (as I do) that in the next five years or so we’ll be able to use apps on our phones not just to translate other languages but to converse with the speakers of those languages, you can’t escape the ramifications for schools. And it’s not just languages and speech recognition that we’re talking about here. It’s new tools and technologies that are being invented at a rapid pace that can replace much of what we do in our classrooms. As I’ve said before here, we live at a time of growing abundance when it comes to the resources available to learn and to function in our lives. It’s amazing and daunting.”

- How Technology Has Changed What Students Need To Learn (via world-shaker)

thesmithian: I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white,...

Tue, 05 Feb 2013 15:02:31 -0500

thesmithian:

I’m hoping someday that some kid, black or white, will hit more home runs than myself. Whoever it is, I’d be pulling for him. —Hank Aaron

Henry ‘Hank’ Aaron was born on this day in Mobile, Alabama, in 1934.

"The greatest pain in any man’s heart is to watch a man he once knew turn into a man he was..."

Wed, 30 Jan 2013 02:14:02 -0500

“The greatest pain in any man’s heart is to watch a man he once knew turn into a man he was never supposed to become.”

- Jacob Sheets

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psych-quotes: We must remember that all these things, the...

Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:20:46 -0500

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We must remember that all these things, the nuances, the anomalies, the subtleties, which we assume only accessorize our days are, in fact, here for a much larger and nobler cause. They are here to save our lives. - Emma Thompson

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Tue, 11 Dec 2012 23:20:03 -0500

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