The world is a better place to live in because it contains human beings who will give up ease and security and stake their own lives in order to do what they themselves think worth doing.
After Amelia Earhart disappeared on this day in 1937, Walter Lippmann wrote this exquisite tribute to her and to human heroism at large. (via explore-blog)
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I just want to remind everyone that we once had presidents who talked like this and we still can again.
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i saw this painting at mount vernon and almost started crying
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Image Source: http://ift.tt/29zy530
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Rangees de Lumiere by KitanoObi
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A cartoon by William Haefeli.
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From my rotting body, flowers shall grow and I am in them and that is eternity.
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Men’s Oxford Shoes, ca. 1905
Selz, Schwab & Co.
via LACMA
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You strike me as a kind person. I hope your world is kind. By which I mean, I’ve heard we see the world not as it is but as we are. A saint sees a world of saints, a killer sees only murderers and victims.
Neil Gaiman “My Last Landlady” Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances
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After all this, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.
Margaret Atwood, Oryx and Crake
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Marilyn Monroe posing with a photo of Abraham Lincoln, who she greatly admired.
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Begin doing what you want to do now. We are not living in eternity. We have only this moment, sparkling like a star in our hand–and melting like a snowflake…
Francis Bacon
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You may fancy yourself safe and think yourself strong. But a chance tone of colour in a room or a morning sky, a particular perfume that you had once loved and that brings subtle memories with it, a line from a forgotten poem that you had come across again, a cadence from a piece of music that you had ceased to play… I tell you, that it is on things like these that our lives depend.
Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Easily the tweet of the year
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Now they were as strangers; nay, worse than strangers, for they could never become acquainted. It was a perpetual estrangement.
Jane Austen, Persuasion
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Printing the script, memorizing lines. Don’t call me irresponsible. Not about scripts. About healthcare, grocery shopping, punctuality, and car maintenance: sure, but not about memorizing lines.
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