One of the coolest sites out there, zenpencils.com, matches wonderful comic strip art with inspirational quotations. The author releases a new strip/quotation about once a week. Beware, once you head over to the site, there is a good chance you’ll spend the next two hours there, reading everything it has to offer. :)
Source: zenpencils.com
Wide open and unguarded stand our gates,
Named of the four winds, North, South, East and West;
Portals that lead to an enchanted land…
Here, it is written, Toil shall have its wage
And Honor honor, and the humblest man
Stand level with the highest in the law.
Of such a land have men in dungeons dreamed
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (1836–1907)
“Rusted brandy in a diamond glass,
everything is made from dreams,
time is made from honey, slow and sweet,
only the fools know what it means.”
~Tom Waits
Source: rough.dk
“Your dreams are very well written… People turn anxieties, crises and longing, love regret and guilt into beautiful stories in their dreams. What is it that allows us the creative freedom that we don’t have in our waking lives?”
~Charlie Kaufman, Writer of Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless Mind
“Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.”
~Oscar Wilde
“Looking at the stars always makes me dream, as simply as I dream over the black dots representing towns and villages on a map. Why, I ask myself, shouldn’t the shining dots of the sky be as accessible as the black dots on the map of France? Just as we take a train to get to Tarascon or Rouen, we take death to reach a star. We cannot get to a star while we are alive any more than we can take the train when we are dead. So to me it seems possible that cholera, tuberculosis and cancer are the celestial means of locomotion. Just as steamboats, buses and railways are the terrestrial means. To die quietly of old age would be to go there on foot.” -Vincent van Gogh
(via swisslife)
Source: Flickr / silent_stories
