May 2012
51 posts
6 tags
Be brave. Take risks. Nothing can substitute experience.
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
7 tags
5 tags
5 tags
We don’t stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
– George Bernard Shaw (via legendarypao)
7 tags
5 tags
The things that make me different are the things that make me.
– ― A.A. Milne
(via thesearepeopleyouknow)
4 tags
5 tags
The question you should be asking isn’t, “What do I want?” or “What are my...
– Tim Ferriss (via letterstobabies)
5 tags
5 tags
Stories of imagination tend to upset those without one.
– Terry Pratchett (via booksandnerds)
7 tags
4 tags
There must be more to life than having everything!
– Maurice Sendak (1928 - 05/08/2012)
5 tags
7 tags
We have to continually be jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way...
– Kurt Vonnegut (via excessivebookshelf)
3 tags
5 tags
Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off,...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via oh-sayitaintso)
6 tags
6 tags
Our lives are defined by opportunities, even the ones we miss.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button (via danseurs)
6 tags
6 tags
Thoughts are made of water and water always finds a way.
– Dave Eggers, You Shall Know Our Velocity! (via bookmania)
10 tags
5 tags
You’re something between a dream and a miracle.
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning (via larmoyante)
4 tags
My Discoveries: Cross out what you've already... →
Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen The Lord of the Rings - JRR Tolkien Jane Eyre - Charlotte Bronte Harry Potter series - JK Rowling To Kill a Mockingbird - Harper L*ee The Bible - Council of Nicea Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte Nineteen Eighty Four - George Orwell His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman Great Expectations - Charles Dickens Little Women - Louisa M Alcott Tess of the D’Urbervilles...
7 tags
6 tags
7 tags
Summer night— even the stars are whispering to each other.
– ― Kobayashi Issa (via cajunmama)
5 tags
7 tags
12 tags
6 tags
We are more often frightened than hurt; and we suffer more from imagination than...
– Seneca (via acraeus)
4 tags
That terrifying feeling when you are finishing a...
5 tags
6 tags
Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life…And when I sleep, let...
– Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (via bookmania)
6 tags
7 tags
What is the meaning of life? That was all — a simple question; one that tended...
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via bookmania)
9 tags
6 tags
I was raised among books, making invisible friends in pages that seemed cast...
– Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind (via girlwithoutwings)
5 tags
7 tags
4 tags
Sometimes imagination pounces; mostly it sleeps soundly in the corner, purring.
– Terri Guillemets (via libraryland)
6 tags
6 tags
If I had my life to live over, I would start barefoot earlier in the spring and...
– Nadine Stair (via wordsonashelf)
4 tags
5 tags
Let books be your dining table,
And you shall be full of delights
Let them be...
– Author Unknown (via booknest)
8 tags
6 tags
There is no such thing as fantasy unrelated to reality.
– Maurice Sendak (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
2 tags
5 tags
4 tags
5 tags