#here

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers; welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content. ↗

— Knut Hamsun

#art #bars #books #content #forest

A hidden spark of the dream sleeps In the forest and waits In the celestial spheres of the brain. ↗

— Dejan Stojanovic

#celestial #circling #dejan-stojanovic #dreams #forest

Sometimes it seems the universe wants to be noticed.' That's what I believe. I believe the universe wants to be noticed. I think the universe is improbably biased toward consciousness, that it rewards intelligence in part because the universe enjoys its elegance being observed. And who am I, living in the middle of history, to tell the universe that it-or my observation of it-is temporary? ↗

— John Green

#my-god #not-really #this #this-is-life #this-right-here

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#bhie #future #life #past #regrets

Life is too short ↗

— I don't know..

#true #life

We inhabit a world in which we tend to put labels on each other and expect that we will then march through life wearing them like permanent sandwich boards. ↗

— Nick Webb

#judgment #labels #nick-webb #personality #wish-you-were-here

My little scam in April '85 went like this: Give me $50,000; here's some names of some people we've recruited. ↗

— Aldrich Ames

#give #give me #here #like #little

The proper, wise balancing of one's whole life may depend upon the feasibility of a cup of tea at an unusual hour. ↗

— Arnold Bennett

#live-in-the-moment #live-life #tea #time #time-passing

I have only ever read one book in my life, and that is White Fang. It's so frightfully good I've never bothered to read another. ↗

— Nancy Mitford

#book #bothered #ever #fang #good

You can't run away from trouble. There ain't no place that far. ↗