by emma | Feb 8, 2010 | Words
The fox gazed at the little prince, for a long time.
“Please–tame me!” he said.
“I want to, very much,” the prince replied. “But I have not much time. I have friends to discover, and a great many things to understand.”
“One only understands the things that one tames,” said the fox. “Men have no more time to understand anything. They buy things all ready made at the shops. But there is no shop anywhere where one can buy friendship, and so men have no friends anymore. If you want a friend, tame me…”
“What must I do, to tame you?” asked the little prince.
“You must be very patient,” replied the fox. “First you will sit down at a little distance from me–like that–in the grass. I shall look at you out of the corner of my eye, and you will say nothing. Words are the source of misunderstandings. But you will sit a little closer to me, every day…”
[The Little Prince, by Antoine de Saint Exupéry]
[Thanks, Amos]
by emma | Jan 26, 2010 | Words
“To live in the past and future is easy. To live in the present is like threading a needle.”
[Walker Percy]
by emma | Dec 13, 2009 | Words
“Therein lies the best career advice I could possibly dispense: just DO things. Chase after the things that interest you and make you happy. Stop acting like you have a set path, because you don’t. No one does. You shouldn’t be trying to check off the boxes of life; they aren’t real and they were created by other people, not you. There is no explicit path I’m following, and I’m not walking in anyone else’s footsteps. I’m making it up as I go.”
[Career advice from Charlie Hoehn, via SwissMiss]
by emma | Dec 12, 2009 | Words
“In the end, our society will be defined no only by what we create
but by what we refuse to destroy.”
[John C. Sawhill]
Came across this phenomenal quote over on Stephen Brewsters blog (which you should read, by the way). It’s got me thinking deeply about the things we need to fight and kick at until they are destroyed, both collectively and individually. It’s deeply challenging me.
by emma | Oct 5, 2009 | Words
“The very act of storytelling, of arranging memory and invention according to the structure of the narrative, is by definition holy… We tell stories because we can’t help it. We tell stories because we love to entertain and hope to edify. We tell stories because they fill the silence death imposes. We tell stories because they save us.”
[James Carroll]
by emma | May 6, 2009 | Words
We keep moving forward, opening new doors, and doing new things, because we’re curious and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.
[Walt Disney]
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