#ow

While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see. ↗

— Dorothea Lange

#eyes #how #little #more #nothing

What an author doesn't know could fill a book. ↗

— Holly Black

#books #knowledge #authority

ذو العقلِ يشقى في النعيمِ بعقلهِ وأخو الجهالةِ في الشقاوةِ ينعمُ ↗

— أبو الطيب المتنبي

#ignorance

Words are like eggs dropped from great heights; you can no more call them back than ignore the mess they leave when they fall. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#salem-falls #truth #words #ignorance

Women are only children of a larger growth. A man of sense only trifles with them, plays with them, humours and flatters them, as he does with a sprightly and forward child; but he neither consults them about, nor trusts them with, serious matters. ↗

— Philip Stanhope

#child #children #consults #does #flatters

It lit up like a Christmas Tree Hazel Grace... ↗

— John Green

#cancer #pain #sad #sorrow #sorrowful

My turn shall also come: I sense the spreading of a wing. ↗

— Osip Mandelstam

#poetry #growth

It is well known that reading quickens the growth of a heart like nothing else. ↗

— Catherynne M. Valente

#heart #reading #growth

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#growth #growth

But when you're in front of an audience and you make them laugh at a new idea, you're guiding the whole being for the moment. No one is ever more him/herself than when they really laugh. Their defenses are down. It's very Zen-like, that moment. They are completely open, completely themselves when that message hits the brain and the laugh begins. That's when new ideas can be implanted. If a new idea slips in at that moment, it has a chance to grow. ↗

— George Carlin

#growth #idea #laugh #path #zen