Tumblr Poem Famous Quotes & Sayings

Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power. — Erik Brynjolfsson

So much of young adult literature has turned dark, almost pathological. It's almost as if there is a race to see who can be the most dysfunctional. — Richard Paul Evans

a single poem
the thing that can keep me
light on my feet,
when my soul is
heavy with sorrow. — Sanober Khan

A city is not adorned by external things, but by the virtue of those who dwell in it. — Epictetus

This, then, is our desert: to live facing despair, but not to consent. To trample it down under hope in the Cross. To wage war against despair unceasingly. — Thomas Merton

I was stressed and scared and I had to hurry to be someone, become something, do something. I was running and talking and cursed myself when I wasted my time on things that wouldn't get me anywhere. It was work and it was money and I was never where I was, always somewhere else in my head far, far away. — Charlotte Eriksson

You know, to an extent, Method acting feels occasionally lazy. — Richard C. Armitage

I stand there, feeling broken and small, thousands of eyes trained on me. — Suzanne Collins

All mankind is divided, as it was at all times and is still, into slaves and freemen. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The city became for me the ideal of what I wanted to be as a grown-up. Friendly, but never gushing, cool but not frigid or distant, distinguished without the awful stiffness. — Maya Angelou

I sense love, beauty and power and know I am supported by unseen beings of light. — Lynne Cockrum-Murphy

For me my work is always being compared to my heritage. It has been quite a challenge unto itself just to drop into my voice and develop my individuated sound. — Julian Lennon

I have never seen a client make a serious effort to confront his abusiveness unless somebody required him to do the work. The abuser who truly enters counseling voluntarily, with no one holding anything over his head, quits within a few sessions, unless he finds a counselor he can manipulate. — Lundy Bancroft