quote
“We gave the Future to the winds…”
I just wanted to take a quick moment to share one of my favorite sentences in the entire existence of the human language.
It’s from Edgar Allan Poe’s The Mystery of Marie Roget (I went on a bit of a Poe kick this past summer. No regrets.).
“We gave the Future to the winds, and slumbered tranquilly in the Present, weaving the dull world around us into dreams.”When I came across this sentence during my reading, I immediately stopped to write it down. Something about it caught my attention– possibly a mix of the meaning (of serenely living in the present) and the way the words felt on my tongue. Go ahead, say it out loud to yourself.
Okay, so I have officially sealed my reputation as a geek with that last bit, but as I’ve mentioned in the past: I absolutely love quotes. They hold a lot of meaning for me and I collect them like one might collect baseball cards.
So, I have to ask: What are some of your favorite quotes? Care to share?
Life isn’t divided into genres…
Life isn’t divided into genres.
It’s a horrifying,
romantic,
tragic,
comical,
science-fiction,
cowboy
detective novel.
-Alan Moore-
Collecting Quotes
I recently realized that it has been a while since I last posted a quote. I decided it was about time to add a new one. But first, I want to explain something: When I do post quotes, they are more than just space fillers or a way for me to compensate for not having written an actual post in a while. I can say this because, honestly, when I first started blogging, those were the exact reasons why I did post quotes. Now, however, I’ve come to enjoy simply sharing these quotations.
Since I was about 12, I’ve collected quotes. From books, from family, from things I’ve heard in TV or on the radio. My room is littered with little notebooks filled with these collections. Needless to say, I have a wide variety to choose from. But more than that, when I share a quote from my collection, I regard it as personal. I am sharing part of what makes me who I am, in hopes of finding other people who will take equal inspiration/humour/hope/knowledge away from these words.
Today, the quote I’m sharing seems all to relevant to my current situation. As I look for jobs in the real world, I need to remember that the “risk” or staying still is just as “painful” as moving on. Please enjoy and feel free to share some of your favorite quotes with me. I’m always looking to add to my collection!
“And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.”
-Anais Nin
“Dwell in possibility”
Vladimir Kush
“Dwell in possibility…”
Emily Dickinson
“Too much certainty…” quote
I am certain there is too much certainty in the world.
-Michael Crichton
Technology…”married with the humanities”
“…technology alone is not enough… it’s technology married with liberal arts, married with the humanities, that yields us the result that makes our hearts sing.”
– Apple’s Steve Jobs at unveiling of iPad 2
‘Remain alive…’ quote
- In spite of illness, in spite even of the archenemy sorrow, one can remain alive long past the usual date of disintegration if one is unafraid of change, insatiable in intellectual curiosity, interested in big things, and happy in small ways.
- Edith Wharton
“Making the world a smaller place…”
“I can take out my iPhone and scan the tweets and see what’s happening half way around the world, and I can put myself in the shoes of someone who is trying to overthrow a repressive regime and I can suddenly have an empathy with that person that I would not otherwise necessarily have had … People all around the world are realizing that we’re not just necessarily citizens of a particular state or a particular country, but citizens of the world. And this is a growing feeling and I think that the Internet and social media tools are making the world a smaller place and allowing us to feel this empathy.”
— Twitter’s Biz Stone on the power of social media networks. (via nprfreshair)
Past is Prologue 