From Time to Time

How did it happen that their lips came together? How does it happen that birds sing, that snow melts, that the rose unfolds, that the dawn whitens behind the stark shapes of trees on the quivering summit of the hill? A kiss, and all was said.

Victor Hugo

When someone demands blind obedience, you’d be a fool not to peek.

Jim Fiebig

(via isobellab)

“To watch. To wait. To wonder at a world in chaos,’ the girl said. ‘And hope one day you fools might learn.” 

David Hewson, Macbeth: A Novel

Life is a zoo in a jungle.

Peter De Vrries

It turns out your conscious mind-the part you think of as you-is really the smallest part of what’s happening in your brain, and usually the last one in line to find out any information.

David Eagleman

In wisdom gathered over time I have found that every experience is a form of exploration. 

Ansel Adams

Why do two colors, put one next to the other, sing? Can one really explain this? No, just as one can never learn how to paint.

Pablo Picasso