July 2009
19 posts
“A person will worship something, have no doubt about that. We may think our...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“…make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you...”
– — Jon Krakauer, Into the Wild (via justlia) (via quote-book) (via witchindarkroom) (via spunkfairy) (via clairefisher) (via booklover) (via booktumbling)
wow
June 2009
19 posts
“Love anything and your heart will be wrung and possibly broken. If you want to...”
– C.S. Lewis (via booktumbling)
“Every creator painfully experiences the chasm between his inner vision and its...”
– Isaac Bashevis Singer (via graphicamin) (via instant-noodles) (via aquabooks) (via booktumbling)
The Ultimate Longhorn Reading List: UT teachers...
booktumbling:
janewilkins:
In 1987, UT’s College of Liberal Arts released a document titled “The Texas List of Unrequired Reading,” a four-year reading plan of books in philosophy, science, literature, and history. The 48 books and 48 on an alternate reading list ranged from the Bible to The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. At the time, Dean Robert King said the college was immediately...
When They Sleep
booktumbling:
lexluthr:
she-alone:
All people are children when they sleep There’s no war in them then. They open their hands and breathe in that quiet rhythm heaven has given them. They pucker their lips like small children and open their hands halfway, soldiers and statesmen, servants and masters. The stars stand guard and a haze veils the sky, a few hours when no one will do anybody harm....
“To laugh often and much, to win the respect of intelligent people and the...”
– Emerson (via afteritwego) (via libraryland) (via booktumbling)
“The greatest happiness of life is the coviction that we are loved - loved for...”
– Victor Hugo
“A diet book should have two pages in it: “Page 1 – Eat right. Page 2 – Exercise....”
– Bill Maher (via excitablehonky) (via jeffcagle)
“When I had no money, and a great book came out, I couldn’t get it. I had to...”
– Sherman Alexie (via booktumbling)
“My heart laughs with joy because I am in your presence.”
– Native American Proverb