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  • #2
    Natsume Sōseki
    “I believe that words uttered in passion contain a greater living truth than do those words which express thoughts rationally conceived. It is blood that moves the body. Words are not meant to stir the air only: they are capable of moving greater things.”
    Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

  • #2
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.”
    Martin Luther King, Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #3
    Martin Luther King Jr.
    “Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
    Martin Luther King Jr., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches

  • #4
    Natsume Sōseki
    “...you don't really become a finer person just by reading lots of books.”
    Natsume Sōseki, Kokoro

  • #5
    Natsume Sōseki
    “Like the first whiff of burning incense, or like the taste of one's first cup of saké, there is in love that moment when all its power is felt.”
    Natsume Soseki, Kokoro
    tags: love

  • #6
    Natsume Sōseki
    “To tell you the truth, I used to consider it a disgrace to be found ignorant by other people. But now, I find that I am not ashamed of knowing less than others, and I'm less inclined to force myself to read books. In short, I have grown old and decrepit.”
    Natsume Soseki, Kokoro

  • #7
    Natsume Sōseki
    “I am an inconsistent creature. Perhaps it is the pressure of my past, and not my own perverse mind, that has made me into this contradictory being. I am all too well aware of this fault in myself. You must forgive me.”
    Sōseki Natsume, Kokoro

  • #8
    Isaac Newton
    “I do not know what I may appear to the world, but to myself I seem to have been only like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself in now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #9
    Isaac Newton
    “I can calculate the motion of heavenly bodies but not the madness of people.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #10
    Isaac Newton
    “Gravity explains the motions of the planets, but it cannot explain who sets the planets in motion.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #11
    Isaac Newton
    “A man may imagine things that are false, but he can only understand things that are true.”
    Sir Isaac Newton

  • #12
    Isaac Newton
    “What goes up must come down.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #13
    Isaac Newton
    “Live your life as an Exclamation rather than an Explanation”
    Newton

  • #14
    Isaac Newton
    “Sir Isaac Newton was asked how he discovered the law of gravity. He replied, "By thinking about it all the time.”
    Sir Isaac Newton

  • #15
    Isaac Newton
    “He who thinks half-heartedly will not believe in God; but he who really thinks has to believe in God.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #16
    Isaac Newton
    “If others would think as hard as I did, then they would get
    similar results.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #17
    Isaac Newton
    “They who search after the Philosopher's Stone [are] by their own rules obliged to a strict and religious life.”
    Isaac Newton

  • #18
    Natsume Sōseki
    “Even the works of Shakespeare might be more thoroughly appreciated if they were re-examined from unorthodox positions. Someone, once in a while, should take a good long look at Hamlet through his legs.”
    Sōseki Natsume, I Am a Cat

  • #19
    Natsume Sōseki
    “I am not as hard as I seem. For the right person, I too could shed a few tears.”
    Natsume Sōseki, Grass on the Wayside

  • #20
    William Blake
    “The most sublime act is to set another before you.”
    William Blake, Proverbs of Hell

  • #21
    William Blake
    “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there's more conversation. ”
    William Blake

  • #22
    William Blake
    “Some are born to sweet delight, Some are born to endless night.”
    William Blake

  • #23
    William Blake
    “Enlightenment means taking full responsibility for your life.”
    William Blake

  • #24
    William Blake
    “Better to shun the bait than struggle in the snare.”
    William Blake

  • #25
    William Blake
    “For I dance
    And drink and sing,
    Till some blind hand Shall brush my wing.

    If thought is life
    And strength and breath
    And the want
    Of thought is death

    Then am I
    A happy fly
    If I live
    Or if I die”
    William Blake
    tags: poem

  • #26
    William Blake
    “How can a bird that is born for joy
    Sit in a cage and sing?”
    William Blake

  • #27
    William Blake
    “Those who control their passions do so because their passions are weak enough to be controlled.”
    William Blake

  • #28
    Ava Reid
    “We must discuss, then, the relationship between women and water. When men fall into the sea, they drown. When women meet the water, they transform. It becomes vital to ask: is this a metamorphosis, or a homecoming?”
    Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

  • #29
    Ava Reid
    “How terrible, to navigate the world without a story to comfort you.”
    Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning

  • #30
    Ava Reid
    “I will love you to ruination.”
    Ava Reid, A Study in Drowning



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