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“Oh, this is pain, this is anguish! I faint, I fail. Now my body thaws; I am unsealed, I am incandescent.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Pain
“The birds sang passionate songs addressed to one ear only and then stopped. Bubbling and chuckling they carried little bits of straw and twig to the dark knots in the higher branches of the trees. Gilt and purpled they perched in the garden, where cones of laburnum and purple shook down gold and lilac, for now at midday the garden was all blossom and profusion and even the tunnels under the plants were green and purple and tawny as the sun beat through the red petal, or the broad yellow petal, or was barred by some thickly furred green stalk.”
— Virginia Woolf, The Waves
Tagged: Song of Birds, Nature Descriptions
“A green world, a scene of green deep with light blues, the greens made deep by those blues. The air we breathe is freshly sweet, and warm, as though with berries. We are here. We are here. The earth is beautiful beyond all change.”
— William Bronk, The World, The Worldless
Tagged: Green, Blue, Nature
“It is not the poet's task, nor is it within his power, to give birth to a new religion. At most he may keep open the space or possibility for some new revelation. How this might come about—why, when, where, above all whether—remains imponderable, but there is little doubt that, in the present age, it could happen only in some catacombal space.”
— Robert Pogue Harrison, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Poetizing, Preparing A Readiness, Reconfigures
“Always dear to me this lonely hill. And I recall the eternal, and the dead seasons, and the present, living one, and the sound of her. So in this Immensity my thought drowns.”
— Giacomo Leopardi, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Nature
“The birds around me hopped and played. Their thoughts I cannot measure — but the least motion which they made, it seemed a thrill of pleasure.”
— Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Complete Poems
Tagged: Nature, Birds, The Pleasure of Flying
“Already desiring to explore inside and out 
the divine forest, so dense and alive, 
which tempered the new day before my eyes, 
without delay I left the bank, proceeding slowly through the country 
whose ground exuded fragrance everywhere.”
— Dante Alighieri, Purgatorio
Tagged: Forests, Nature
“A book is a mirror. When a monkey looks in, no apostle can look out. ”
— George Lichtenberg, Forests: The Shadow of Civilization
Tagged: Mirrors, Writing, Books, Literature, Best Reading Quotes
“Do not go to human civilization. Stay in the forest! Go rather even to the animals! Be as I am—a bear among bears, a bird among birds. ”
— Fredriech Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Nature, Birds, Bears
“You great star. What would your happiness be had you not those for whom you shine? ”
— Fredriech Nietzche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Tagged: Stars, Nature, Beauty as Change
“The first creatures on earth to become aware of time were also the first creatures to smile.”
— Vladimir Nabokov,
Tagged: Time, History, Smile, Smiles
“The trees like lungs filling with air.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, The Virgin Suicides: A Novel
Tagged: Trees, Nature, Lungs
“There is pleasure in the pathless woods, there is rapture on the lonely shore.”
— Lord Bryon, Complete Works
Tagged: Nature, beauty
“Throw a stone into the stream and the ripples that propagate themselves are the beautiful type of all influence.”
— Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nature
Tagged: Nature, Stream, Ripples
“I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived. ”
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
Tagged: Woods, Nature, Live With Meaning
“Design has always been largely about systems, and how to create products in a scalable and repeatable way. From Pantone colors to Philips screws, these systems enable us to manage the chaos and create better products. Digital products are perhaps the most fertile ground for implementing these systems and yet it’s not often considered a priority.”
— Kari Saarinen, Building a Visual Language
Tagged: Design, Frontend, Design Systems, Airbnb, Design Teams
“Feminism has fought no wars. It has killed no opponents. It has set up no concentration camps, starved no enemies, practiced no cruelties. Its battles have been for education, for the vote, for better working conditions, for safety on the streets, for child care, for social welfare, for rape crisis centres, women’s refuges, reforms in the law. If someone says “Oh, I’m not a feminist”, I ask “Why? What’s your problem?””
— Dale Spender, Man Made Language
Tagged: feminism, Equality, Gender Wars
“You have to know what you stand for, not just what you stand against.”
— Laurie Halse Anderson, Speak
Tagged: Pride, Self-Worth, Stand For Something
“All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.”
— Ken Kesey, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Tagged: Self-improvement, Self-awareness, Self-Worth, Be Positive, Be Kind
“I find myself formulating excuses I know you’ve already come up with, because I know I’ll never get an ‘I’m sorry’ followed by just a period. 

And I deserve that period.”
— Kendra Syrdal, The Big Bad Heartbreak Book
Tagged: Breakups, Breaking Up, excuses, Taking Responsibility
“We call ships ‘she’. We call our machines 'women’. We compare women to black widows and vipers. And you’re going to tell me it’s not 'lady-like’ to scream, to take up space, to fight and demand respect and do whatever I want. You’ve looked at nuclear bombs and been so in awe that you could only name them after women. Don’t try to down-play my power.”
— Anonymous, via Tumblr
Tagged: feminism, Womanhood, Power, strength
“We as women are trained to see ourselves as cheap imitations of fashion photographs, rather than seeing fashion photographs as cheap imitations of women.”
— Naomi Wolf, A Woman's Worth
Tagged: Fashion, Photography, Misogyny, feminism, beauty
“When I take up space, please know:
it will not be on your terms.”
— Orooj-e-Zafar, From Kim, With Love
Tagged: Kim Kardashian, Confidence, Self love, Defiant, strength
“On February 8, 2009, at 12:30am, Chris Brown 
 beat Rihanna’s face into a landscape of craters 
 and bruises. This is the architecture of violence. 
 Later, Chris Brown described their relationship 
 as being similar to Romeo and Juliet’s. 

In 2013, David O. Russell groped 
his niece’s breasts and claimed 
she had flirted with him first. 

In 1965, Sean Connery told Playboy 
there was nothing wrong with beating a woman. 
That “bloody-minded,” “hysterical,” “bitch” 
women should be hit, should be slapped. 

In 2014, Julia Sonenshein wrote an article 
titled “10 Violent Men Who Are Always Forgiven 
Because Everyone Loves Their Art.” 


They say it’s a myth that mother rabbits
abandon their young in their nests 
after their young have been handled 
by humans. That the scent of humans 
will drive the mother away. 
They say it’s a myth. 
And that the young, no matter how battered 
or bruised, will still be accepted 
by their caregivers. 


But in the human world, the rules change. 
After the rape, most of my rapist’s friends 
abandoned me. One claimed I only wanted 
to profit off my art. 


No one considered that blood 
does not make good paint. 
That trauma is an electric chair 
that singes anyone it can reach. 
It wasn’t my art, remember? 
It was his. 
And he was always forgiven 
because they loved his art.”
— Meggie Royer, It’s Time to Stop Forgiving Our Male Heroes
Tagged: Poetry, Writing, Sexual Assault, Trigger Warning, Rape Culture, Trauma
“A synthesis — an abstraction, chunk, or gist idea — is a neural pattern. Good chunks form neural patterns that resonate, not only within the subject we’re working in, but with other subjects and areas of our lives. The abstraction helps you transfer ideas from one area to another. That’s why great art, poetry, music, and literature can be so compelling. When we grasp the chunk, it takes on a new life in our own minds — we form ideas that enhance and enlighten the neural patterns we already possess, allowing us to more readily see and develop other related patterns. Once we have created a chunk as a neural pattern, we can more easily pass that chunked pattern to others, as Cajal and other great artists, poets, scientists, and writers have done for millennia, Once other people grasp that chunk, not only can they use it, but also they can more easily create similar chunks that apply to other areas in their lives — an important part of the creative process.”
— Barbara Oakley, A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, The Person You'll Become, The Art of Awareness
“The mistake we make in thinking of character as something unified and all-encompassing is very similar to a kind of blind spot in the way we process information. Psychologists call this tendency the Fundamental Attribution Error (FAE), which is a fancy way of saying that when it comes to interpreting other people's behavior, human beings invariably make the mistake of overestimating the importance of fundamental character traits and underestimating the importance of situation and context.”
— Malcom Gladwell, The Tipping Point
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“Evolution is central to the understanding of life, including human life. Like all living things, we are outcomes of natural selection; we got here because we inherited traits that allowed our ancestors to survive, find mates, and reproduce. This momentous fact explains our deepest strivings: why having a thankless child is sharper than a serpent's tooth, why it is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife, why we do not go gentle into that good night but rage, rage against the dying of the light.”
— Steven Pinker, The Blank Slate
Tagged: Psychology, Philosophy, How To Think, The Art of Awareness
“I’m in love with Montana. For other states I have admiration, respect, recognition, even some affection. But with Montana it is love. And it’s difficult to analyze love when you’re in it.”
— John Steinbeck, Travels Withou
Tagged: Nature, Montana, States, Love, In Love With Places
“I was a pebble. I was a leaf. I was the jagged branch of a tree. I was nothing to them and they were everything to me.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Wild
Tagged: Nature, Peaceful, Being One, Being Whole
“There are some places so beautiful that just being there feels like falling in love. The further this road stretches away from anything manmade, the prettier everything gets. Little cotton-ball clouds cling tight to the green hills when we arrive at our red cabin near dusk.”
— Jim Goad, Potatoes on the Moon: I Spent a Week Probing the Alien Landscape of Idaho
Tagged: Nature, Beauty of Nature

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