You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a super-voluptuous flame aglow in your subtle spine (oh, how you have to cringe and hide!), in order to discern at once, by ineffable signs – the slightly feline outline of a cheekbone, the slenderness of a downy limb, and other indices which despair and shame and tears of tenderness forbid me to tabulate – the deadly little demon among the wholesome children; she stands unrecognized by them and unconscious herself of her fantastic power.
— Vladimir Nabokov (via troubled)
We are all connected;
to each other,
biologically;
to the earth,
chemically;
to the rest of the universe,
atomically.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nezartdesign)
I began to realize
how important it was
to be an enthusiast in life.
He taught me
that if you are interested in something,
no matter what it is,
go at it
full speed ahead.
Embrace it
with both arms,
hug it,
love it
and above all
become passionate about it.
Lukewarm is no good.
Hot is no good, either.
White hot and passionate
is the only thing
to be.
— Roald Dahl (via nezartdesign)
