May 2012
37 posts
“The plain fact is that the planet does not need more “successful people”. But it does desperately need more peacemakers, healers, restorers, storytellers and lovers of every kind. it needs people who live well in their places. It needs people of moral courage willing to join the fight to make the world habitable and human, and these qualities have little to do with success as our culture has defined it.”
—David Orr
“Words!
Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not
escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via extraintroverted)
Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One could not
escape from them. And yet what a subtle magic there was in them!” —Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (via extraintroverted)
“what is
this quintessence of dust?” —W. Shakespeare
this quintessence of dust?” —W. Shakespeare
“Do not force your children to behave like you, for surely they have been created for a time which is different to your time.”
—Imam Ali (AS)
“Despite the difficulties of my story, despite discomforts, doubts, despairs, despite impulses to be done with it, I unceasingly affirm love, within myself, as a value. Though I listen to all the arguments which the most divergent systems employ to demystify, to limit, to erase, in short to depreciate love, I persist: “I know, I know, but all the same…” I refer the devaluations of a lover to a kind of obscurantist ethic, to a let’s-pretend realism, against which I erect the realism of value: I counter whatever “doesn’t work” in love with the affirmation of what is worthwhile.”
—Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse (via philphys)
