(Source: masterofthepotatos)
It is the heart that sees
If your mother tells you to do a thing, it is wrong to reply that you won’t. It is better and more becoming to intimate that you will do as she bids you, and then afterward act quietly in the matter according to the dictates of your best judgment.Young Mark Twain’s mischievous advice to little girls.
Art Spiegelman, 1995. This was one of my favorites.
A modern take on Sister Corita Kent’s timeless rules for learning and life, hand-lettered by artist Lisa Congdon.
Wisdom on life and art from legendary painter Agnes Martin, born 101 years ago today.
Some timeless advice on finding what you were born to do here and here.
Even if the opponent plays him false twenty times, he is ready to trust him the twenty-first time, for an implicit trust in human nature is the very essence of his creed. No matter how often he is betrayed, he will repose his trust in the adversary … He will not be misled by the mere fear of suffering into groundless distrust. Distrust is a sign of weakness and satyagraha implies the banishment of all weakness and, therefore of distrust, which is clearly out of place when the adversary is not to be destroyed but to be won over.
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After the elements of the periodic table visualized according to their popularity in the universe, the elements visualized according to their popularity in Google.
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