Love words, agonize over sentences. And pay attention to the world.”
— Susan Sontag (via swissmiss)
Tag: Quoted
Giovanni Boccaccio on the Wrongs of Long Ago
Wrongs of long ago are more easily criticized than put right.”
— Giovanni Boccaccio, Andreuccio da Perugia’s Neapolitan adventures
Sarah Gershman on Emotion as a Currency for Remembering Content
According to numerous studies, emotion is a basic currency for remembering content. A listener must connect emotionally to what they hear in order to remember what the speaker says. Simply, we remember most vividly the events in our lives in which we were most emotionally impacted.”
— Sarah Gershman, Do You Need Charisma to Be a Great Public Speaker? (via swissmiss)
Seneca on Friendship
I can show you many who have lacked, not a friend, but a friendship.”
— Seneca, Moral Letters to Lucilius
In Winter Enjoy
“In seed time learn, in harvest teach, in winter enjoy.”
— William Blake, Proverbs of Hell (via @austinkleon)
If the industrial era was about building things, the social era is about connecting things, people and ideas.”
— Nilofer Merchant (via FREE MARKET)
Why are you so afraid to create? Why do you put so many obstacles in your own way? You drown your strength, you waste it.”
— Anaïs Nin, “The Four-Chambered Heart” (via violentwavesofemotion)
How honest we are with others flows always from how honest we are with ourselves. And how honest we are with ourselves depends mainly on how brave we can be in any given moment.”
— Annie Mueller // Honesty is the price of freedom (via Rhoneisms)
Death of the Periphery
“I’ve often felt like the deeper discipline of poetry is overhearing yourself say things you didn’t want to know about the world, something that actually emancipates you from this smaller self out into this larger dispensation that you actually didn’t think you deserved. So one of the things we’re most afraid of in silence is this death of the periphery, the outside concerns, the place where you’ve been building your personality and where you think you’ve been building who you are, starts to atomize and fall apart. It’s one of the basic reasons we find it difficult even just to turn the radio off or the television or not look at our gadget — is that giving over to something that’s going to actually seem as if it’s undermining you to begin with and lead to your demise. The intuition, unfortunately, is correct. You are heading toward your demise, but it’s leading towards this richer, deeper place that doesn’t get corroborated very much in our everyday outer world.”
Lisa Marie Blair 