Quotes to remember

[wegs]

''There's nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly.'' - R. Buckminster Fuller

Fuller is considered to be ''one of the greatest minds of our time.'' Hmm, I've never heard of him, but anyone who has something positive to say about butterflies, catches my eye.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buckminster_Fuller

 

[Seattle]

He is usually associated with geodesic domes.

 

[Magical Realist]

“I think us here to wonder, myself. To wonder. To ask. And that in wondering bout the big things and asking bout the big things, you learn about the little ones, almost by accident. But you never know nothing more about the big things than you start out with. The more I wonder, the more I love.”
― Alice Walker, The Color Purple

 

[Magical Realist]

"My wish for you is that you continue. Continue to be who and how you are, to astonish a mean world with your acts of kindness. Continue to allow humor to lighten the burden of your tender heart."--Maya Angelou

 

[Magical Realist]

“The fresh smell of coffee soon wafted through the apartment, the smell that separates night from day.”
—Haruki Murakami

 

[wegs]

~swoon~

Valentine’s Day inspired.

 

[Magical Realist]

"When I give food to the poor, they call me a saint. When I ask why the poor have no food, they call me a communist.”
― Dom Helder Camara, Dom Helder Camara: Essential Writings

 

[Magical Realist]

“We have nothing to lose, nothing to gain, nothing we desired anymore- except to make our lives into a work of art.”
― Lana Del Rey

 

[Magical Realist]

 

[wegs]

 

[Magical Realist]

“I do not care what comes after; I have seen the dragons on the wind of morning.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, The Farthest Shore

 

[Magical Realist]

"I am losing precious days. I am degenerating into a machine for making money. I am learning nothing in this trivial world of men. I must break away and get out into the mountains to learn the news "
~ John Muir

 

[Magical Realist]

“There is a wisdom, a sort of grace, in just noticing things.”
― Marty Rubin

 

[wegs]

Those two quotes resonate with me SO much, MR.

 

[Magical Realist]

“Seeing death as the end of life is like seeing the horizon as the end of the ocean.”
― David Searls

 

[Magical Realist]

"I want purity in my life. And kindness...and I want to keep moving and learning. This is not what most people want, so I go it alone, but I'm not lonely: I'm protected."---Lillian Gish

 

[wegs]

“I am no bird; and no net ensnares me: I am a free human being with an independent will, which I now exert to leave you.” — Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre

 

[Seattle]

“There is a wisdom, a sort of grace, in just noticing things.”
― Marty Rubin

 

[Magical Realist]

“The everyday world drags us along, like a slave behind a conquer’s chariot. One must learn to sever the rope, to allow the mind to stand still, to become aware of its affinity with mountains and stones.”
- Colin Wilson

 

[Magical Realist]

“It's a terrible thing, I think, in life to wait until you're ready. I have this feeling now that actually no one is ever ready to do anything. There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now. And you may as well do it now. Generally speaking, now is as good a time as any.”---Hugh Laurie