"We live not only in a world of thoughts, but also in a world of things. Words without experience are meaningless."

Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via bookmania)

"If one advances confidently in the direction of their dreams, and endeavors to lead a life which they have imagined, they will meet a success unexpected in common hours."

Henry David Thoreau (via bookmania)

Going toward your dream is easy…finding your dream is the hard part…

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bookmania:

Created by Michelle Legro of Lapham’s Quarterly, Maria Popova of Brain Pickings & Illustrator Wendy MacNaughton as part of Longshot magazine’s Debt issue, “Circles of Influence” is a chart of artistic, scientific, and philosophical debts through time. (via sunrec)

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kateoplis:

A group of 25 extreme jacuzzi enthusiasts have a soak suspended 150 metres above the ground from the New Gueuroz bridge in Switzerland. The event took about 2,500 hours to plan and a further six hours to assemble – all for 2.5 hours in the tub.

"The saddest people I’ve ever met in life are the ones who don’t care deeply about anything at all. Passion and satisfaction go hand in hand, and without them, any happiness is only temporary, because there’s nothing to make it last."

Nicholas Sparks, Dear John (@estincelle)

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"We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations."

Anaïs Nin (via bookmania)

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lookhigh:

Not ready to let go of summer

On the beach, Palm Beach, Fla. (ca. 1900-1906, Library of Congress)

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laughingsquid:

Metropolitan Etiquette Authority Posts Prank Signs in New York City

kateoplis:

tanya77:

For Kate and Ned.

I am convinced, but cannot prove that time does not exist.

I am convinced that time and space are… convenient macroscopic approximations, flimsy but illusory and insufficient screens that our minds use to organize our reality.

I am convinced that time is an artifact of the approximation in which we disregard the large majority of the degrees of freedom of reality.

-Carlo Rovelli, Physicist, Institute Universitaire de France

Love you, Justine.

kateoplis:

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