"Standardization, instead of individualization. Cheap books, instead of private press editions. Active literature, instead of passive leather bindings."

-- Jan Tschichold

#Book Quotes #Design Quotes #Literature Quotes

“Love is simply where it is.”
“I am convinced that it is of primordial importance to learn more every year than the year before. After all, what is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn.”
“Life is a game of whist. From unseen sources The cards are shuffled, and the hands are dealt. I do not like the way the cards are shuffled, But yet I like the game and want to play.”

Source : Eugene Fitch Ware (1899). “Some of the Rhymes of Ironquill [pseud.]: (A Book of Moods.) ...”
“I'm not a wine connoisseur, but I do like a glass or two at night.”
“Zen is the spirit of a man. Zen believes in his inner purity and goodness. Whatever is superadded or violently torn away, injures the wholesomeness of the spirit. Zen, therefore, is emphatically against all religious conventionalism.”
“Poems are a hotline to our hearts, and we forget this emotional power at our peril”
“I had been really obsessed with Jonestown for a long time - many years - and had read everything there was to read about it, seen all the footage and the documentaries. I found it really chilling in a personal way - the question of people submitting all their personal power and agency and independent thought it the name of a group or ideology. I could not find a way to write about it directly that didn't feel too heavy.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“There is no limit to what the Lord can do in and with and through any individual or any married couple who surrender themselves and their resources completely to His will and His way.”

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