So Many Posts About Hating Being Perceived..... I Love Being Perceived By People Who Love Me

I heard my mother asking our neighbour for some salt. I asked her why she was asking them as we have salt at home. She replied: "It's because they are always asking us for things; they're poor. So, I thought I'd ask something small from them so as not burden them, but at the same time make them feel as if we need them too. That way it'll be easier for them to ask us for anything they need from us.”

Ali al-Jifri

Social media has turned the art of living into an act of performance

About math

“Whether or not you ever again use the math you learned in school, the act of having learning the math established a wiring in your brain that hadn’t existed before, and it’s the wiring in your brain that makes you the problem solver.”

N11, Star Clouds

Yes, I do enjoy walking at night. The world’s more to my liking then, not so loud, not so fast, not so crowded, and a good deal more mysterious.

Cornelia Funke (via quotemadness)