I do love people,
yet how can I talk to them?
-Eila Pennanen, from Thank You for These Illusions; Poems; “The Real,” (via violentwavesofemotion)
Conflict is the gadfly of thought. It stirs us to observation and memory. It instigates invention. It shocks us out of sheep-like passivity, and sets us at noting and contriving.
-John Dewey, Human Nature and Conduct (via philosophybits)
(Source: philosophybits, via philosophybits)
I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.
-Khaled Hosseini, And the Mountains Echoed (via quotespile)
He allowed himself to be swayed by his conviction that human beings are not born once and for all on the day their mothers give birth to them, but that life obliges them over and over again to give birth to themselves.
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Love in the Time of Cholera (featured in our 15-book giveaway)
(Source: macrolit)
