0 ratings (0.0 avg)
0 reviews

Jaen

Add friend

Jaen’s Bookshelves

to-read‎ (11)

currently-reading‎ (0)

read‎ (6)

gods-promises‎ (1)

Stats | More…

“A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul.”
― Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

tags: art, beauty, music, wonder

2481 likes

“The relation between what we see and what we know is never settled. Each evening we see the sun set. We know that the earth is turning away from it. Yet the knowledge, the explanation, never quite fits the sight.”
― John Berger, Ways of Seeing

tags: connections, explanations, knowledge, seeing

223 likes

“Words are easy, like the wind; faithful friends are hard to find.”
― William Shakespeare, The Passionate Pilgrim

tags: friendship

4104 likes

“Memory is like a spiderweb that catches new information. The more it catches, the bigger it grows. And the bigger it grows, the more it catches.”
― Joshua Foer, Moonwalking with Einstein: The Art and Science of Remembering Everything

61 likes

“I'm not in search of sanctity, sacredness, purity; these things are found after this life, not in this life; but in this life I search to be completely human: to feel, to give, to take, to laugh, to get lost, to be found, to dance, to love and to lust, to be so human.”
― C. JoyBell C.