“Horror might be scary, but it‘s also a fascinating genre that stimulates curiosity in the unknown. I hope to keep drawing scary and entertaining manga for as long as I can. And if my cats give me funny ideas, maybe there‘s a chance I‘ll draw more cat manga” 😺
“I got up on my feet and it took character. It took will power. It took a lot out of me, and there wasn‘t as much to spare as there once had been. The hard heavy years had worked me over”
I know the feeling almost every morning 😩
“Goodbye, Linda. I hope you find what you want.”
“Goodbye,” she said coldly. “I always find what I want. But when I find it, I don‘t want it anymore.”
Another successful blind date! Though it wasn‘t that much of a mystery given the description. Got Four plays by Aristophanes!
Went to Barnes & Noble and was pleasantly surprised by a display of “blind date with a book” so I just couldn‘t resist. Wasn‘t disappointed, I got Solaris by Stanislaw Lem. This is such a fun idea!
Two weeks ago I lost my reading buddy and best friend. Brian was a sweet gentle loving kitty and I still can‘t believe he‘s gone. I will forever treasure all the moments we shared and reading time will never be the same without him on my lap purring softly. Feeling a bit lost, I miss my sweet boy so much. It takes courage to love, knowing that some day you will lose it... love you always sweet angel 💕
I‘ve always wondered what Beatrice meant, if she just meant that she was disdainful of romantic love in general as she did also say she wouldn‘t run mad with love “till a hot January”. I also tend to think that perhaps hearing pretty words with no action to back them up is as useful and meaningful as some other odd noise. What do you think?
@GingerAntics any thoughts? :)
“Acknowledging an ultimate end gives us context, meaning, even hope, and allows us paradoxically, to step back from our petty day-to-day concerns and simultaneously live more fully in the moment. Maybe this can be the meaning we seek.”
#science
#catsoflitsy
“Philosophy is nothing else than to search out by reason what is right and proper and by deeds to put it into practice”
#philosophy #stoicism
“There is only one loneliness, and it is vast, and hard to bear, and almost everyone has moments when they would so much rather trade it for a feeling of community, no matter how cheap and trivial -for the illusion of even a slight harmony with any unworthy substitute that comes along...”
“We have to be constantly jumping off cliffs and developing our wings on the way down.”
Very true!
“Well, we all see things with different eyes, and it gets you nowhere hoping that even one in a thousand will see things your way.”
What a wonderful read this is turning out to be, for some reason it‘s bringing out a lot of nostalgia in me, and I guess that‘s what great literature does, it touches upon certain feelings that are common to all. Many thanks to @vivastory for bringing this book into my awareness :)
#NYRBbookclub
“The future is stationary, my dear Mr. Kapppus; it is we who are moving in infinite space”
“I want to ask you, dear sir, as best as I can, to have patience with everything that is still unresolved in your heart; try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms, like books written in a truly foreign language. Don‘t look for the answers now: they cannot be given to you yet because you cannot yet live them, and what matters is to live everything.”
I love that this edition includes the other side of the conversation
“It is a tragedy, perhaps, that human beings can get so much energy and enthusiasm from hate. If you want to feel ten feet tall and as though you could run a hundred miles without stopping, hate becomes pure cocaine any day. Hitler resurrected a beaten, bankrupt, half-starved nation with hatred and nothing more. Imagine that.”
Kurt‘s words continue to be relevant today. Love this man!
“Fidelity‘s value can be weighed only by first weighing the object toward which it flows. As Vladimir Jankélévitch concludes, “Faithfulness to stupidity is yet one more stupidity.” Fidelity to one‘s political party at the cost of loyalty to one‘s humanity is not fidelity, but most often betrayal.”
“The misery and greatness of this world: it offers no truths, but only objects for love. Absurdity is king, but love saves us from it.”
Yes, I‘m a fan 😁
“Existentialism is all about freedom and personal choice. It is all about facing up to reality with honesty and courage and seeing things through to the end, as well as being about putting words like choice in italics.”
#philosophy
The Buddha said this: “The object of your practice should first of all be yourself. Your love for the other, your ability to love another person, depends on your ability to love yourself.” If you are not able to take care of yourself, if you are not able to accept yourself, how could you accept another person and how could you love him or her? So it is necessary to come back to yourself in order to be able to achieve the transformation.
“Understanding is the essence of true love.”
“It‘s not some great revelation. It‘s pausing to say hi to a newspaper vendor and reaching out to someone at work who seems down.It‘s sitting in awe beneath a starry night sky and going to a medieval prayer service with friends. It‘s opening a coffee shop for struggling veterans. It‘s listening attentively to a loved one‘s story. It‘s taking care of a plant. These may be humble acts on their own. But taken together, they light up the world.” 💕
I hear you Antonio! ☹️
I like further on the allusion to Janus to indicate that sadness is one side of the coin and happiness on the other, makes me wonder how many of us appear to others happy or sad when inwardly we feel the opposite.
@GingerAntics
#Shakespeareaday
I‘m starting to really like my daily dose of knowledge and look forward to learning something everyday! Today‘s topic was literature, yesterday it was history and got to learn a bit more about Hammurabi‘s code of Law, which I found fascinating! A great way to learn and get interested in finding out more on the subjects that appeal to you the most.
“Part of the reason I feel lonely,” she said, “is because I don‘t tell people things. I hold my thoughts and feelings inside. This taught me that I should make more of a point of talking to others-and not just for me, but for them. When we tell our story, we do two things. We understand ourselves better and we offer support to people going through the same thing that we we‘re going through.”
It‘s interesting how the character equates food and love in the sense that you can get so much of it to reach to point of saturation. It reminded me of the Twilight Zone episode “The Chaser” in which it is shown what happens when incessant love and attention is showered upon someone who initially desired it (be careful what you wish for!)
#Shakespeareaday
pickFor someone totally new to Smith, this was a nice introduction into his way of thinking although it seemed to me that the author was frequently pushing his own ideas and beliefs, especially about religion (he admitted himself that Smith scarcely mentions it in his works). The book consists of direct quotations from Smith which are explored and expanded upon by the author. It really made me curious to read Smith‘s works.
This is an interesting one, you get to learn a bit of information each day for a whole year on seven different subjects: History, Literature, Visual Arts, Science, Music, Philosophy and Religion, divided by the days of the week: Monday for History, Tuesday for Literature, and so on. All written by experts in that particular field. Might just embark on this journey of knowledge!
Starting off a year with Shakespeare 😊
To be honest, after an awful year I wish a more cheerier start would‘ve been chosen 😅 @GingerAntics feel free to join in at any time on this Shakespearing journey :) would love to read your thoughts!
Starting the new year right, looking forward to getting a daily dose of Shakespeare 😊
Happy New Year everyone! 💕🎊🎉
“He stopped for a moment. This sometimes happens with people: unbearable, unexpected memories, especially in connection with shame, ordinarily stop one on the spot for a moment.”
I freaking love Dostoevsky! 😍 don‘t know why I saw some bad reviews about this book, half way through and it‘s brilliant
“My stuttering, I need hardly say, placed an obstacle between me and the outside world. It is the first sound that I have trouble in uttering. This first sound is like a key to the door that separates my inner world from the world outside, and I have never known that key to turn smoothly in its lock.”
“The real evils indeed of Emma‘s situation were the power of having rather too much of her own way, and a disposition to think a little too well of herself; these were the disadvantages which threatened alloy to her many enjoyments. The danger, however, was at present so unperceived, that they did not by any means rank as misfortunes with her.”
“Twelve men conducted the investigation, gathering as on a knitting needle the accursed stitches of this complicated case scattered all over Moscow.”
Love the analogy! 🧶 reading and working on my blanket 💕
Been in a reading slump for months! :( but this wonderful read is getting me back on track
Happy readings everyone!
4 years on Litsy, wow! Happy to be part of this bookish community 💕
Hope everyone is doing good!
“The first step in spending time alone is to admit how afraid of it we are.”
I‘ve just read the first page and already in love with this book and the evocative poetic language of Mr. Whyte
Image is stock photo from the internet
“It‘s a double standard to criticize other people without acknowledging our own imperfections. He actually recommends that whenever we‘re offended by the faults of another, we should treat it as a signal to pause and immediately turn our attention to our own character, reflecting on the similar ways in which we go wrong.”
“These Mr. Know-it-alls are occasionally, even quite frequently, to be met with in a certain social stratum. They know everything, all the restless inquisitiveness of their minds and all their abilities are turned irresistibly in one direction, certainly for lack of more important life interests and perspectives, as a modern thinker would say.”
#7days7covers #7covers7days #covercrush Day 7
Not sure if this qualifies, but I just love that cover!
It‘s so important to develop self awareness!
#Stoicphilosophy #Stoicism #mindfulness
