Come to the edge”, he said.
They said, “We are afraid.”
“Come to the edge”, he said.
They came.
And they flew.
– Guillaume Apollinaire
Apr 172013
Apr 162013
Family isn’t whose blood you carry. It’s who you love and who loves you.
– Jackie Chan, in his movie The Spy Next Door
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/280541-family-isn-t-whose-blood-you-carry-it-s-who-you-love
Apr 152013
Love is the condition in which the happiness of another person is essential to your own.
– Robert Heinlein, Stranger in a Strange Land
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/4964-love-is-that-condition-in-which-the-happiness-of-another
Apr 142013
Love isn’t a state of perfect caring. It is an active noun, like struggle. To love someone is to strive to accept that person exactly the way he or she is, right here and now.
– Fred Rogers, aka “Mister Rogers”
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/180952-love-isn-t-a-state-of-perfect-caring-it-is-an
Apr 132013
Have patience with everything unresolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves as if they were locked rooms or books written in a very foreign language. Don’t search for the answers, which could not be given to you now, because you would not be able to live them. And the point is to live everything. Live the questions now. Perhaps then, someday far in the future, you will gradually, without even noticing it, live your way into the answer.
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (1934)
Apr 122013
When I have a terrible need of — shall I say the word — religion. Then I go out and paint the stars.
– Vincent van Gogh
Apr 112013
Curiosity, especially intellectual inquisitiveness, is what separates the truly alive from those who are merely going through the motions.
– Tom Robbins