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© Diego F.G. with CCLicense Like a man travelling in foggy weather, those at some distance before him on the road he sees wrapped up in the fog, as well as those behind him, and also the people in the...
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All sanity depends on this: that it should be a delight to feel the roughness of a carpet under smooth soles, a delight to feel heat strike the skin, a delight to stand upright, knowing the bones are...
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Fall into darkness© Yashna M with CCLicense The only difference between me and most people is that I’m perfectly aware that all my important decisions are made for me by my subconscious. My frontal...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Burkhard Bilger
© Ahmed Al-Hilali with CCLicense One of the seats of emotion and memory in the brain is the amygdala, he explained. When something threatens your life, this area seems to kick into overdrive, recording...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Douglas Coupland
Somaprabha and a Celestial Nymph Listening to MusicKathasaritsagara Painting, ca 1590 People listening to songs are like people reading novels: for a few minutes, for a few hours, someone else gets to...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Bruce Catton
© Thomas Hawk with CCLicense And there is the headlight, shining far down the track, glinting off the steel rails that, like all parallel lines, will meet in infinity, which is after all where this...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Carlos Ruiz Zafón
© O.F.E. with CCLicense Time goes faster the more hollow it is. Lives with no meaning go straight past you, like trains that don’t stop at your station. ―Carlos Ruiz Zafón, The Shadow of the Wind
View ArticleQuote for Today: Robert Penn Warren
© David Heuts with CCLicense …the train goes fast and is going fast when it crosses a little trestle. You catch the sober, metallic, pure, late-light, unriffled glint of the water between the little...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Joe Abercrombie
© Finneganw with CCLicense The lamplight gleamed on the Magus’ white grin. “People like to watch the pretty puppets, Superior. Even a glimpse of the puppeteer can be most upsetting for them. Why, they...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Lewis Carroll
Trash People, Rome Installation by HA Schultimage © Roberto Ventre with CCLicense “I declare it’s marked out just like a large chessboard!” Alice said at last. “There ought to be some men moving about...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Alan Watts
© brewbooks with CCLicense It is interesting that Hindus, when they speak of the creation of the universe do not call it the work of God, they call it the play of God, the Vishnu lila, lila meaning...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Stephen Sondheim
© he2pockysticks with CCLicense The worst thing you can do is censor yourself as the pencil hits the paper. You must not edit until you get it all on paper. If you can put everything down,...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Earl Nightingale
Idea for a Helicopter, Leonardo da Vinci Ideas are elusive, slippery things. Best to keep a pad of paper and a pencil at your bedside, so you can stab them during the night before they get away. –Earl...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Kamal Ravikant
M80 Globular Cluster Public Domain Image by Nasa/ESA Hubble I promise you that the same stuff galaxies are made of, you are. The same energy that swings planets around stars makes electrons dance in...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Stephen Hawking
© Luis Argerich with CCLicense There could be shadow galaxies, shadow stars, and even shadow people. –Stephen Hawking
View ArticleQuote for Today: Dejan Stojanovic
© Nasa Goddard Photo and Video with CCLicense Entering a cell, penetrating deep as a flying saucer to find a new galaxy would be an honorable task for a new scientist interested more in the inner state...
View ArticleQuote for Today: A.M. Homes
Public Domain Image via Pixabay You are your own beginning. Every day, every hour, every minute, you start again. There is no point wishing you were someone else, you are who you are—start there. ―A.M....
View ArticleQuote for Today: George Orwell
Years of Silence © Sam Wolff with CCLicense If you want to keep a secret, you must also hide it from yourself. You must know all the while that it is there, but until it is needed you must never let it...
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Technology has often been spawned from ideas created by science fiction. Will strategy games play their part in the future? © The Fayj with CCLicense I grew up playing Risk, that wonderful board game...
View ArticleQuote for Today: Barbara Hurd
Okefenokee SwampPublic Domain Image via Pixabay In a swamp, as in meditation, you begin to glimpse how elusive, how inherently insubstantial, how fleeting our thoughts are, our identities. There is...
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