April 2012
95 posts
“The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just listen. Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention. A loving silence often has far more power to heal and to connect than the most well-intentioned words.”
—Rachel Naomi Remen (via black-tangled-heart)
“Close some doors. Not because of pride, but because that no longer fits your life.”
—Paolo Coelho (via paperlover)
“If you look very intensely and slowly, things will happen that you never dreamed of before.”
—Photographer, Aaron Siskind (via artpropelled)
“A book is made from a tree. It is an assemblage of flat, flexible parts (still called “leaves”) imprinted with dark pigmented squiggles. One glance at it and you hear the voice of another person — perhaps someone dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, the author is speaking, clearly and silently, inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people, citizens of distant epochs, who never knew one another. Books break the shackles of time, proof that humans can work magic.”
—Carl Sagan, Cosmos (via bookoasis)
