Recommend to your children virtue; that alone can make them happy, not gold.
Ludwig van Beethoven (via blogut) (via quote-book)
Author: coffeehousejunkie
know anyone like this? okay, okay, don’t start pointing fingers…
“many of us are so bad because we’re trying so hard to be good…. some of us are trying so hard to be good because and we’re trying to keep the bad people out… you’re the ones that are complaining about everything… you’re looking for this perfect utopia where everybody does everything just so and usually it is according to the morals you set up by picking and choosing form various churches and various moral agencies and you’re saying, ‘these are the things you have to have to line up to be right and we won’t be part of you until become one of us.’ ….you’re the folks that won’t join a church because they don’t do everything just so and you’re not willing to even dialogue about it and if it’s not this way it’s no-way…”
-kurt hannah
Your greatness is measured by your kindness; your education and intellect by your modesty; your ignorance is betrayed by your suspicions and prejudices, and your real caliber is measured by the consideration and tolerance you have for others.
William J. H. Boetcker (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
Words form the thread on which we string our experiences.
Aldous Huxley (via crookedtooth)
When we drink coffee, ideas march in like the army.
Coffee is the common man’s gold, and like gold, it brings to every person the feeling of luxury and nobility.
legoexpress: roomthily: lego infographic from The Daily Mail (When Lego lost its head – and how this toy story got its’ happy ending)
Give a frontiersman coffee and tobacco, and he will endure any privation, suffer any hardship, but let him be without these two necessaries of the woods, and he becomes irresolute and murmuring.
U.S. Army Lt. William Whiting, 1849
The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.
Sophocles (via johannal) (via quote-book)
For years have pushed art making away from me. Partly due to lack of space and consolidating my paintings into small sketchbooks. Then I replaced paint for pen and ink, and drew smaller images into Moleskines until my drawings disappeared into lines of characters trying to form poems…
Now, I want to start painting again…
(Image source via creativeinspiration: 472239364: artpixie: love letters and skypaints: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tinycastles/3912498882/)
No longer does the aspiring teenage punk rocker, confined to a dreary and un-hip rural or suburban existence, have to feel isolated and alone. Sure, his classmates may think the Gaslight Anthem is a Frank Sinatra song, but he can easily find the band’s music, clothing and, more importantly, the peers he craves with the help of the Internet.
We Are United in Our Digital Isolation, PopMatters (via somethingchanged)
on the subject of caffeine
Today’s caffeine intake:
- 16 oz. coffee from Starbucks: 270 mg
- 12 oz. can Diet Sparkling Lemonade: 41 mg
- 16 oz. can of Lo-Carb Monster: 160 mg
- 2 cups of coffee: 200+ mg.
Total: 671+ mg. caffeineI’m lucky caffeine does nothing for me, I suppose. I just like pretty much everything that contains it? Idk. All of the above was delicious and I drink all of that stuff on a regular basis.
What if a print magazine used the same template for every article? It would be pretty boring, no?
The Death Of The Blog Post – Smashing Magazine (via fluffynotes)
I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.
T.S. Eliot
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar, and fat.
Alex Levine
I orchestrate my mornings to the tune of coffee.
Harry Mahtar
Other people will edit you your whole life. They’ll take what you say and keep the bits they like and throw away the rest.
Don’t edit yourself. Let other people do it for you.
(via I wrote this for you) (via kari-shma) (via ireadintothings)
There is no abstract art. You must always start with something. Afterward you can remove all traces of reality.
Pablo Picasso (via firstmillionsketches) (via subcreation)
um… does this mean c.s. lewis was abducted by aliens?
Coffee leads men to trifle away their time, scald their chops, and spend their money, all for a little base, black, thick, nasty, bitter, stinking nauseous puddle water.
The Women’s Petition Against Coffee, 1674
tonight at 7:30, Flood Reading Series @ Posana Cafe featuring Ned Condini and Laura Hope-Gill
Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
Jonathan Swift
the house where i live has a smaller carbon footprint than the all the limos & private jets at copenhagen…
Coffeehouse Junkie 