It takes a long time to become young.
— Pablo Picasso (via thebriness)
It takes a long time to become young.
— Pablo Picasso (via thebriness)
Children are tough, though we tend to think of them as fragile. They have to be tough. Childhood is not easy.
— Maurice Sendak (via thebriness)
Once you have tasted flight, you will forever walk the earth with your eyes turned skyward, for there you have been, and there you will always long to return.
— Leonardo da Vinci (via thebriness)
If a man walks in the woods for love of them half of each day, he is in danger of being regarded as a loafer. But if he spends his days as a speculator, shearing off those woods and making the earth bald before her time, he is deemed an industrious and enterprising citizen.
— Henry David Thoreau (via sirmitchell)
To avoid criticism, do nothing, say nothing, be nothing.
— Elbert Hubbard
A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies. The man who never reads lives only one.
— George R.R. Martin (via sirmitchell)
People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are the brakes on the wheels of progress.
— Dale Turner
Always do right. That will gratify some of the people and astonish the rest.
— Mark Twain
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
— Edward O. Wilson (via cultureofresistance)
(Source: socialuprooting)
A ‘No’ uttered from the deepest conviction is better than a ‘Yes’ merely uttered to please, or worse, to avoid trouble.
— Mahatma Gandhi
Compassion is a feeling from deep in the heart that you cannot bear someone else’s suffering without taking steps to relieve it.
— Dalai Lama
If you look at the movies that Brad has directed -if you look at “The Iron Giant”, if you look at “The Incredibles” and “Ratatouille”- they’re about the choices you need to make for your dream. And Brad’s message is always, stick to your guns. It’s going to be hard, it’s going to be challenging, but stick to your guns, believe in yourself, and do what you need to do to be happy.
— Mark Andrews, refering to Brad Bird in the Ratatouille artbook. (via ffrick)
In a children’s book there must be a path where the author stands still and the child walks on. A threat or a wonder that is never explained. A face that never shows itself entirely.
— Tove Jansson (via thebriness)
(Source: sandwichbag.blogspot.com)
Evil may kill a human being, but it will never conquer a nation. Revenge is a natural reaction. But, we, in Norway shall not hate, we shall not seek revenge. We shall stand together in our sorrow.
— Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, Norway (via thebriness)
(Source: NPR)
