January 2012
8 posts
“The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant....”
– Albert Einstein (via michellenotmarie)
Nerd.
I would like to experience a midnight in Paris.
“To save man from the morass of propaganda, in my opinion, is one of the chief...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., The Purpose of Education (via positivelypersistentteach)
WatchMove, Shake, Drop…yeah, the girls rocked it tonight. CHJN Dance Team
December 2011
29 posts
“Let her be bored. Let her have long afternoons with absolutely nothing to do....”
– Make Your Kid A Writer (via creatingaquietmind)
“Copy out things that you really love. Any book. Put the quotation marks around...”
– Nicholson Baker on copying out passages of your favorite books by hand (via austinkleon)
As a teacher, my one hope is for the students to truly grasp how important this is…how much it can teach them and how much they can learn.
“All I’ve ever done is dream. That, and only that, has been the meaning of my...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via moldavia)
Hmmm….I relate but not sure I’m glad that I do.
“It’s not that I don’t like people. It’s just that when I’m in the company of...”
– Leave Me Alone I’m Reading by Maureen Corrigan (via readingforaliving)
“Choices may be unbelievably hard but they’re never impossible. To say you have...”
– Patrick Ness, Monsters of Men (via prettybooks)
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...”
– The Scarlet Letter - Nathaniel Hawthorne (via lullaby04)
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via paperlover)
:)
“I grabbed my book and opened it up. I wanted to smell it. Heck, I wanted to kiss...”
– Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian (via bookoasis)
“To laugh often and much; to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via myquotelibrary)
“A strong woman who recklessly throws away her strength, she is worse than a weak...”
– Thomas Hardy, Tess of the D’Urbervilles: Classic Collection (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
“There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There...”
– Beryl Markham (via creatingaquietmind)
November 2011
22 posts
“If a man treats life artistically, his brain is his heart.”
– The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde (via emptycarousels)
Solitude.
Laugh, and the world laughs with you;
Weep, and you weep alone.
For the sad old earth must borrow it’s mirth,
But has trouble enough of its own.
Sing, and the hills will answer;
Sigh, it is lost on the air.
The echoes bound to a joyful sound,
But shrink from voicing care.
Rejoice, and men will seek you;
Grieve, and they turn and go.
They want full measure of all your pleasure,...
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka
