Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.

Suffering is part of our training program for becoming wise.
Ram Dass  (via paperlover)

Advice found on http://www.deanwesleysmith.com/?p=6033, photo: my own.

Fritänkare

Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and without fearing to understand things that clash with their own customs, privileges, or beliefs. This state of mind is not common, but it is essential for right thinking.
Leo Tolstoy  (via paperlover)

Randi Zuckerberg

I am going to appreciate every last moment of awesomeness I can get.
Randi Zuckerberg, interviewed by the New York Times, starting her own business and making a name of her own instead of just being referred to as “the older Zuckerberg”.

Rupert Grint

These last ten years just … have been the best half of my life.
From Rupert Grint’s Thank you speech at HP Deathly Hallows II premiere.

Auguste Rodin

The artist must create a spark before he can make a fire and before art is born, the artist must be ready to be consumed by the fire of his own creation.
Auguste Rodin, 1840-1917, quoted by Skaparladan.

Steve Jobs-citat

Out of curiosity comes everything.
Steve Jobs, 1955-2011, quoted in todays text by Wired.

Enkelt?

Alan Moore

… the papers ran the story under a headline that read simply ‘Hooded Justice’. The first masked adventurer outside comic books had been given his name.
Reading and rereading that news item, I knew that I had to be the second. I’d found my vocation.
Watchmen, Alan Moore/Dave Gibbons, story of Hollis Mason.

Citat om idé

I tend to let the idea brew inside of me to the point where the content must come out.
from How I write, Six Pixels of separation, July 11, 2011.