“Art is how we decorate space. Music is how we decorate time.”
“I’m not everything I want to be, but I’m more than I was, and I’m still learning.”
— Charlotte Eriksson, Everything Changed When I Forgave Myself (via books-n-quotes)
“Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.”
— Christopher Paolini, Eragon (via books-n-quotes)
Person this morning: I don't think young people fully grasp the seriousness of climate change.
Me: Madam, young people are the ONLY people who fully grasp the seriousness of climate change.
“The first thing to realize, if you wish to become a philosopher, is that most people go through life with a whole world of beliefs that have no sort of rational justification, and that one man’s world of beliefs is apt to be incompatible with another man’s, so that they cannot both be right. People’s opinions are mainly designed to make them feel comfortable; truth, for most people is a secondary consideration.”
— Bertrand Russell, The Art of Philosophizing
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
— Azar Nafisi, Reading Lolita in Tehran (via books-n-quotes)
“Sometimes, I feel the past and the future pressing so hard on either side that there’s no room for the present at all.”
— Evelyn Waugh, Brideshead Revisited (via books-n-quotes)