quotes – Guy James https://guyjames.com Stratospheric Analogue Juice Fri, 12 Oct 2018 17:08:46 +0000 en-US hourly 1 “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the…” https://guyjames.com/2013/09/28/be-soft-do-not-let-the-world-make-you-hard-do-not-let-pain-make-you-hate-do-not-let-the-2/ Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:07:20 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3142 “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

– Kurt Vonnegut (via luxology)

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]]> “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the…” https://guyjames.com/2013/09/28/be-soft-do-not-let-the-world-make-you-hard-do-not-let-pain-make-you-hate-do-not-let-the/ Sat, 28 Sep 2013 09:01:48 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3140 “Be soft. Do not let the world make you hard. Do not let pain make you hate. Do not let the bitterness steal your sweetness. Take pride that even though the rest of the world may disagree, you still believe it to be a beautiful place.”

– Kurt Vonnegut (via luxology)

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]]> “What’s worse, the falling rain, or your resistance to getting wet? The changing winds, or your…” https://guyjames.com/2013/08/02/whats-worse-the-falling-rain-or-your-resistance-to-getting-wet-the-changing-winds-or-your-2/ Fri, 02 Aug 2013 18:11:39 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3118 “

What’s worse, the falling rain, or your resistance to getting wet?

The changing winds, or your battle against them?

The grass as it grows, or your demand for it to grow faster?

This moment, or your rejection of it?

Consider the possibility that Life is never ‘against’ you.

You are Life.

”

– Jeff Foster
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]]> “But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.” https://guyjames.com/2013/07/17/but-remember-there-are-two-ways-to-dehumanize-someone-by-dismissing-them-and-by-idolizing-them/ Wed, 17 Jul 2013 06:16:43 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3082 “But remember, there are two ways to dehumanize someone: by dismissing them, and by idolizing them.”

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David Wong 

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]]> “People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be…” https://guyjames.com/2013/07/09/people-will-kill-you-over-time-and-how-theyll-kill-you-is-with-tiny-harmless-phrases-like-be/ Tue, 09 Jul 2013 13:31:51 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3080 “People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like: ‘be realistic.’”

– Dylan Moran (via ohmothernature)

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]]> “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.” https://guyjames.com/2013/06/29/never-love-anybody-who-treats-you-like-youre-ordinary/ Sat, 29 Jun 2013 10:31:20 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3078 “Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

– Oscar Wilde (via houseof-therisingsun)

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]]> “She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to…” https://guyjames.com/2013/06/28/she-never-looked-nice-she-looked-like-art-and-art-wasnt-supposed-to-look-nice-it-was-supposed-to/ Fri, 28 Jun 2013 16:46:29 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3077 “She never looked nice. She looked like art, and art wasn’t supposed to look nice; it was supposed to make you feel something.”

– Eleanor & Park, Rainbow Rowell (via moaka)

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]]> “What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself…” https://guyjames.com/2013/06/15/what-is-necessary-after-all-is-only-this-solitude-vast-inner-solitude-to-walk-inside-yourself-2/ Sat, 15 Jun 2013 11:55:31 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3069 “What is necessary, after all, is only this: solitude, vast inner solitude. To walk inside yourself and meet no one for hours – that is what you must be able to attain.”

– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via loveage-moondream)

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]]> ““Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?…” “It is the sun shining on the rain and the…” https://guyjames.com/2013/04/23/is-the-spring-coming-he-said-what-is-it-like-it-is-the-sun-shining-on-the-rain-and-the/ Tue, 23 Apr 2013 06:31:36 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3042 “

“Is the spring coming?” he said. “What is it like?…”

“It is the sun shining on the rain and the rain falling on the sunshine…”

”

–

Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden

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]]> “Even the most unnatural thing is Nature… He who does not see it everywhere does not see it correctly…” https://guyjames.com/2013/04/14/even-the-most-unnatural-thing-is-nature-he-who-does-not-see-it-everywhere-does-not-see-it-correctly/ Sun, 14 Apr 2013 11:31:38 +0000 http://guyjames.com/?p=3037 ““Even the most unnatural thing is Nature… He who does not see it everywhere does not see it correctly anywhere… We obey its laws even when we go against them; we work with it even when we want to work against it.””

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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