June 2009
2 posts
“Have patience with all things, but chiefly have patience with yourself. Do not...”
– Francois de Sales (via christianity) (via mdfsmash)
“To have painted a painting does not empty the vessel out of which paintings...”
– The Gift makes you work for your pull quotes. After 200 pages of anthropological history and cultural analysis, we get to Come Full Circle and Apply What We’ve Learned to what we love; we are all breathless and enthusiatic, underlining with gusto.
It turns out he, Lewis Hyde that is, delves into...
April 2009
1 post
February 2009
2 posts
“The words and ideas that we think can shape our lives and drive us toward...”
– Daily Om (via hilarysiegel)
“Don’t say ‘like’ so much.”
January 2009
1 post
talking to ladies (anyone, really)
“You can show off your “good mate” qualities by taking interest in whatever she’s doing. In the study, asking a women at a bookstore about the paperback she was looking at and talking to a woman at an art museum about the painting she was admiring were both scored favorably by women.
“This doesn’t mean you have to start reading Shakespeare or studying Monet to...