July 2007
31 posts
Go to the edge of the cliff and jump off. Build your wings on the way down.
– Ray Bradbury
Trenes de Juguete by Boquetes de mi Mente
Nothing is lost if there is the courage to proclaim it lost and start again.
– Julio Cortázar, Hopscotch
Life isn’t divided into genres. It’s a horrifying, romantic, tragic, comical,...
– Alan Moore, Interview with Mustard magazine
As far as the laws of mathematics refer to reality, they are not certain; and as...
– Albert Einstein, Sidelights on Relativity
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...
– Anaïs Nin, Diary entry, March 1937
Jazz U by Antony Raijekov
If a victory is told in detail, one can no longer distinguish it from a defeat.
– Jean-Paul Sartre, The Devil and the Good Lord
If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts; but if he will be...
– Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning
A great people may be killed, but they cannot be intimidated.
– Napoleon Bonaparte
Psychotherapy theory turns it all on you: you are the one who is wrong. If a kid...
– James Hillman
The tao that can be described is not the eternal Tao. The name that can be...
– Lao Zi, Tao Te Ching
Wake Up by Dan Masquelier
How to say hi to a stranger on the street →
This is a fun guide to how to say hi to anyone you pass on the sidewalk in your neighborhood.
Talent is luck. The important thing in life is courage.
– Woody Allen, Manhattan
Universal history is the history of a few metaphors.
– Jorge Luis Borges, Other Inquisitions