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Page 9, column 3, July 21, 1975, The Scunthorpe Evening Telegraph,Scunthorpe, England
It’s hard to believe in coincidence, but it’s even harder to believe in anything else. — John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
Posted on July 21, 2012 with 2 notes
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I’m frightened of people who believe in just one story. The advantage of studying literature is that you learn many stories, philosophy, history, etc. You learn that we have commonalities of strangeness and secrets with our fellow humans. Because of many stories, we are that much more open to otherness.
Posted on June 13, 2012 via W. W. Norton & Company with 538 notes
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Waiting by Gordon Coutts, 1896
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us. — Henri J. M. Nouwen
Posted on May 15, 2012 with 12 notes
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By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it. The nonexistent is whatever we have not sufficiently desired. — Franz Kafka
Posted on May 6, 2012 via OZNEO with 178 notes
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Queensboro Bridge painted by August Mosca, 1954
Knowledge of other people’s beliefs and ways of thinking must be used to build bridges, not to create conflicts. — Kjell Magne Bondevik
Posted on April 16, 2012 with 2 notes
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‘The “Believe” Of Childhood’ illustration by Nanda Correa
Some things have to be believed to be seen. – Ralph Hodgson, The Skylark and Other Poems
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I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very splendid or wonderful or exciting happens, but just those that bring simple little pleasures, following one another softly, like pearls slipping off a string.
L.M. Montgomery(via parkstepp)
Posted on March 29, 2012 via DEFINITELYDOPE with 1,228 notes
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In Arab popular traditions, there’s a belief that if a manuscript were to be submerged in water and its ink were to dissolve, drinking the water would transform the knowledge contained in that manuscript into the body of the drinker and become part of the body’s system.
Anton Shammas, The Drowned LibraryPosted on March 26, 2012 via nel mezzo del cammin with 174 notes
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Bird Girl, by Sylvia Shaw Judson, 1936. Photographer Jack Leigh found the Bird Girl sculpture on the grave of Lucy Boyd Trosdal in “The garden of good and evil”, Bonaventure Cemetery in Savannah, Georgia.
The belief in a supernatural source of evil is not necessary. Men alone are quite capable of every wickedness. – Joseph Conrad
Posted on March 15, 2012 with 4 notes
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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself, but each of us can work to change a small portion of events. It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring those ripples build a current which can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.
Robert “Bobby” F. KennedyPosted on February 22, 2012 via j'ai repris mon arme with 53 notes
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Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why. -- Kurt Vonnegut
He stretched out his arms to the crystalline, radiant sky.
-- F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
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