#though

A labyrinth is an ancient series of spiraling circels created on the ground with stones that you walk through. You're supposed to ponder some big question like what you should be when you grow up or if a tree falls in the woods and no one is around to hear it, does it still make a sound? (I say no, because a sound is only invisible waves in the air until it hits someones ear, but Kenny says yes because the resulting crash would still cause vibrations and the earth itself would "here" it.) ↗

— Wendy Mass (Every Soul A Star)

#thoughtfull #funny

I called the police to report my missing mustache, but they didn’t take me seriously. I’ll bet if I had a mustache, they’d take me seriously. #catch22
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— Jarod Kintz

#cops #funny #humor #mustache #police

Librarians are tour-guides for all of knowledge. ↗

— Patrick Ness

#libraries #thoughtful #inspirational

What if the kid you bullied at school, grew up, and turned out to be the only surgeon who could save your life? ↗

— Lynette Mather

#inspirational #kids #thoughts-on-life #inspirational

Everything you need to know you have learned through your journey. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#inspiration #soul-seeking #inspirational

People who hate you because of a mere jealousy over your success hurt themselves in disguise. This is because you carry an image of who they wish they had become. Don't hate them back because they may also become like you one day and it will mean hurting that image you carry! ↗

— Israelmore Ayivor

#enviousness #envy #food-for-thought #hate #haters

He walked out in the gray light and stood and he saw for a brief moment the absolute truth of the world. The cold relentless circling of the intestate earth. Darkness implacable. The blind dogs of the sun in their running. The crushing black vacuum of the universe. And somewhere two hunted animals trembling like ground-foxes in their cover. Borrowed time and borrowed world and borrowed eyes with which to sorrow it. ↗

— Cormac McCarthy

#life #the-road #thoughtful #life

My dear friend, clear your mind of cant [excessive thought]. You may talk as other people do: you may say to a man, "Sir, I am your most humble servant." You are not his most humble servant. You may say, "These are bad times; it is a melancholy thing to be reserved to such times." You don't mind the times ... You may talk in this manner; it is a mode of talking in Society; but don't think foolishly. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#cant #excess #expression #language #moderation

He was no longer quite sure whether anything he had ever thought or felt was truly his own property, or whether his thoughts were merely a common part of the world’s store of ideas which had always existed ready-made and which people only borrowed, like books from a library. ↗

— Milan Kundera

#independent-thought #influence #originality #thoughts #life

This is one of the disadvantages of wine, it makes a man mistake words for thoughts. ↗

— Samuel Johnson

#wine #words #life