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Isn’t it odd how much fatter a book gets when you’ve read it several times?” Mo had said…”As if something were left between the pages every time you read it. Feelings, thoughts, sounds, smells…and then, when you look at the book again many years later, you find yourself there, too, a slightly younger self, slightly different, as if the book had preserved you like a pressed flower…both strange and familiar.
Cornelia Funke, Inkspell (via quotes-shape-us)
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We delight in the beauty of the butterfly, but rarely admit the changes it has gone through to achieve that beauty
Maya Angelou (via quotes-shape-us)
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I believe there are only two unstoppable forces in the universe. One is love, the other is intelligence. I also believe that a person’s capacity to love is directly related to their intelligence level, just as hate corresponds to a person’s level of ignorance. The only thing that makes it impossible for the system to destroy you and grind your spirit into nothing is to be more intelligent than it is.
Damien Echols, Life After Death (via quotes-shape-us)
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A man of my acquaintance once wrote a poem called “The Road Less Traveled”, describing a journey he took through the woods along a path most travelers never used. The poet found that the road less traveled was peaceful but quite lonely, and he was probably a bit nervous as he went along, because if anything happened on the road less traveled, the other travelers would be on the road more frequently traveled and so couldn’t hear him as he cried for help. Sure enough, that poet is dead.
Lemony Snicket, The Slippery Slope (via quotes-shape-us)
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There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no notion of loving people by halves, it is not my nature.
Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey (via quotes-shape-us)
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I think ‘creativity’ is better described as failing repeatedly until you get something right.
“Let us be grateful to people who make us happy. They are the charming gardeners who make our souls blossom.” ~ Marcel Proust
Another gem from artist Lisa Congdon’s 365 Days of Hand Lettering.
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…it’s not the black or the white we fear. Anything pure can be beautiful. It’s the grey we fear.
David Wallace Fleming (via quotes-shape-us)
