theatlanticvideo:

You Are Here: A Whole-Sky Time-Lapse of the Galactic Center

Beautiful, deep view into the Milky Way’s core

(via upworthy)

Blessed are those afflictions which subdue our affections, which wean us from self-sufficiency… which teach us to love God not merely when He comforts us, but even when He tries us.

Charles Spurgeon

People assume that time is a strict progression of cause to effect, but actually from a non-linear, non-subjective viewpoint - it’s more like a big ball of wibbly wobbly… time-y wimey… stuff.

The Tenth Doctor

Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts.

Winston Churchill

You can make more friends in two months by becoming interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you.

Dale Carnegie

It’s never too late to be who you might have been.

George Eliot

I am determined to be cheerful and happy in whatever situation I may find myself. For I have learned that the greater part of our misery or unhappiness is determined not by our circumstance but by our disposition.

Martha Washington

Ideas are like rabbits. You get a couple and learn how to handle them, and pretty soon you have a dozen.

John Steinbeck

When I became a man I put away childish things, including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.

C.S. Lewis

Art happens when what is seen becomes mixed with the inside of the person who is seeing it.

Chaim Potok

A writer should concern himself with whatever absorbs his fancy, stirs his heart, and unlimbers his typewriter. I feel no obligation to deal with politics. I do feel a responsibility to society because of going into print: a writer has the duty to be good, not lousy; true, not false; lively, not dull; accurate, not full of error. He should tend to lift people up, not lower them down. Writers do not merely reflect and interpret life, they inform and shape life.

E. B. White

(Source: brainpickings.org)

Weeds are flowers, too, once you get to know them.

A.A. Milne

We can ignore even pleasure. But pain insists upon being attended to. God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: it is his megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain

Design informs even the simplest structure, whether of brick and steel or prose.

E. B. White

To love beauty is to see light.

Victor Hugo