#provoking

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust. ↗

— Sun Tzu

#art

Books can be dangerous. The best ones should be labeled "This could change your life. ↗

— Helen Exley

#change #inspiration #life #reading #thought-provoking

On their sofas of spice and feathers, the concubines also slept fretfully. In those days the Earth was still flat, and people dreamed often of falling over edges. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#inspirational #sleep #thought-provoking #writing #dreams

There is a saying that "paper is more patient than man";it came back to me on one of my slightly melancholy days,while I sat chin in hand,feeling too bored and limp even to make up my mind whether to go out or stay at home. Yes, there is no doubt that paper is patient and as I don't intend to show this cardboard-covered notebook,bearing the proud name of"diary",to anyone,unless I find a real friend,boy or girl,probably nobody cares.And now I come to the root of the matter,the reason for my starting a diary:it is that I have no such real friend. Let me put it more clearly,since no one will believe that a girl of thirteen feels herself quite alone in the world,nor is it so.I have darling parents and a sister of sixteen.I know about thirty people whom one might call friends--I have strings of boy friends,anxious to catch a glimpse of me and who,failing that,peep at me through mirrors in class.I have relations,aunts and uncles,who are darlings too,a good home,no--I don't seem to lack anything.But it's the same with all my friends,just fun and joking,nothing more.I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.We don't seem to be able to get any closer,that is the root of the trouble.Perhaps I lack confidence,but anyway,there it is,a stubborn fact and I don't seem to be able to do anything about it. ↗

— Anne Frank

#home

The humans were protecting their heritage, or so they thought. Strange that Mud Men seem more concerned about the past than the present. ↗

— Eoin Colfer

#inspirational #thought-provoking #inspirational

There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever really been interested in. They're great films but I much prefer the smaller independent films, which are more thought provoking and experimental. ↗

— Billie Piper

#coming #ever #experimental #films #great

Every suggested idea produces a corresponding physical reaction. Every idea constantly repeated ends by being engraved upon the brain, provoking the act which corresponds to that idea. ↗

— Scott Reed

#being #brain #constantly #corresponding #corresponds

First of all, there is no love triangle. There is a person in the middle who likes attention. ↗

— John from FYA

#love #thought-provoking #dating

Here was a new generation, shouting the old cries, learning the old creeds, through a revery of long days and nights; destined finally to go out into that dirty gray turmoil to follow love and pride; a new generation dedicated more than the last to the fear of poverty and the worship of success; grown up to find all Gods dead, all wars fought, all faiths in man shaken... ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#faith

All dreams continue in the beyond. ↗

— Tom Robbins

#thought-provoking #dreams