“Love does not consist of gazing at each other, but in looking outward together in the same direction.”
—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
June 2012
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“I don’t wait for moods. You accomplish nothing if you do
that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” —
that. Your mind must know it has got to get down to work.” —
Pearl S. Buck, 1892 - 1973
“Don’t be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment. The more experiments you make the better.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
June
In June I saw a charming group
Of roses all begin to droop
I pepped them up with chicken soup!
Sprinkle once, sprinkle twice
Sprinkle chicken soup with rice
“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”
—André Gide
“We’re all a little weird. And life is a little weird. And when we find someone whose weirdness is compatible with ours, we join up with them and fall into mutually satisfying weirdness—and call it love—true love.”
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~ Robert Fulghum
“Solitude gives birth to the original in us, to beauty unfamiliar and perilous - to poetry. But also, it gives birth to the opposite: to the perverse, the illicit, the absurd.”
—Thomas Mann
“I believe that imagination is stronger than knowledge - that myth is more potent than history. I believe that dreams are more powerful than facts - that hope always triumphs over experience - that laughter is the only cure for grief. And I believe that love is stronger than death.”
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Robert Fulghum, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten (1986)
“Complaining is stupid. Either act or forget.”
—Stefan Sagmeister (via kari-shma)
