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Why have most of us stopped writing letters? I hope to meet someone someday and receive letters like these myself. To ponder on, to meditate about, to remember the weight of words when we swing them by our tongue and wield them with our pens.

I shall live these questions myself, like how Rilke had written. Perhaps I haven’t found the answers because I haven’t lived them myself. How lovely and invigorating that thought is — we are all walking specimen made of questions yet to be lived. Yet the experience is never in simply the answer, but finding it, living for and with it.
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Absolutely incredible. I can see myself coming back to this anytime I need inspiration, which is all of the time. 
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“You are so young; you stand before beginnings… Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them… At present you need to live the present.”

A perfect book for me to get out of my reading slump. Also a perfect book for me as an anxious young twenty-something year old.
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i pray Bourdain read this

need to have this physically to reread at least once a year, a book that needs to accompany you throughout your life to show how much you've grown and changed and how much of it is true. i was reading this before bed because i thought it will give me something to think about while trying to sleep, but i just agreed with almost everything

French class recommended summer reading. Now I have to write a page about a passage for Language of Paint...

"Peço-lhe que tente ter amor pelas próprias perguntas, como quartos fechados e como livros escritos em uma língua estrangeira. Não investigue agora as respostas que não lhe podem ser dadas, porque não pode vivê-las. E é disto que se trata, de viver tudo. Viva agora as perguntas. Talvez passe, gradativamente, em um belo dia, sem perceber, a viver as respostas."

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