Living one hectic day after another in the city, you tend to look down at the ground. You forget to even look at the night sky.
Haruki Murakami (via murakamistuff)
(via murakamistuff)
Source: timesofindia.indiatimes.com
“Art Is Contemplation…” by 4ThGlryOfGod on Flickr.
“Art is contemplation. It is the pleasure of the mind which searches into nature and which there divines the spirit of which Nature herself is animated.” ~ Auguste Rodin
Source: agoodthinghappened
Reading makes immigrants of us all. It takes us away from home, but
more important, it finds homes for us everywhere.
Hazel Rochman (via bookaddict24-7)
(via bookaddict24-7)
Source: www3.ns.sympatico.ca
Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.
Dream Hampton (via decaying-organic-matter)
(via decaying-organic-matter)
Source: trulyquotable
Whatever it is you’re seeking won’t come in the form you’re expecting
Oshima, in Haruki Murakami’s Kafka on the Shore (via crosswordinspirations)
Source: crosswordinspirations
Fiction is written with reality and reality is written with fiction. We can write fiction because there is reality and we can write reality because there is fiction; everything we consider today to be myth and legend, our ancestors believed to be history and everything in our history includes myths and legends.
Before the splendid modern-day mind was formed our cultures and civilizations were conceived in the wombs of, and born of, what we identify today as “fiction, unreality, myth, legend, fantasy, folklore, imaginations, fabrications and tall tales.” And in our suddenly realized glory of all our modern-day “advancements” we somehow fail to ask ourselves the question “Who designated myths and legends as unreality? ”
But I ask myself this question because who decided that he was spectacular enough to stand up and say to our ancestors “You were all stupid and disillusioned and imagining things” and then why did we all decide to believe this person? There are many realities not just one. There is a truth that goes far beyond what we are told today to believe in. And we find that truth when we are brave enough to break away from what keeps everybody else feeling comfortable.
Your reality is what you believe in. And nobody should be able to tell you to believe otherwise.
C. JoyBell C. (via amandaonwriting)
Source: amandaonwriting
The only thing potentially worse than not being able to see the forest for the trees is not being able to see the trees because of the forest.
Anonymous
Not just beautiful though — the stars are like the trees in the forest, alive and breathing.
haruki murakami (via everchanger)
(via hungryreader)
Source: everchanger
A brave man acknowledges the strength of others.
Veronica Roth (via amandaonwriting)
Source: amandaonwriting
Marisa de los Santos, Love Walked In
Submitted by youaremypatronus.
(via teachingliteracy)
Source: aseaofquotes
The world was hers for the reading.
Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via excessivebookshelf)
Source: excessivebookshelf
Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
David Quammen (via prettybooks)
(via coffee-and-cocoa)
Source: prettybooks
While thoughts exist, words are alive and literature becomes an escape, not from, but into living.
Cyril Connolly (1903-1974)
(via bookaddict24-7)
Source: www3.ns.sympatico.ca
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