“While imprisoned in the shed Pierre had learned not with his intellect but with his whole being, by life itself, that man is created for happiness, that happiness is within him, in the satisfaction of simple human needs, and that all unhappiness arises not from privation but from superfluity.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

March 6 2011  

If you’re like me and you’ve lived in the Manhattan borough of New York City for almost eight years, yet you’ve rarely ventured across the East River to experience what Brooklyn has to offer, and now, because of a huge rent increase, you’re toying with the idea of moving there but have absolutely no idea where to begin looking or know which areas are nice and which are not so nice - have no fear. Anywhere near any of these pins are fine, according the The Scoop iPhone app and it’s designer, John Niedermeyer.

March 5 2011  

“The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.”

— Ayn Rand, born Alisa Zinovyevna Rosenbaum, was a Russian novelist, philosopher, playwright, and screenwriter. She is known for her two best-selling novels and for developing a philosophical system she called Objectivism.

(via quotevadis)

March 3 2011  

The Caribbean Sea and sky. Sian Ka’an Biosphere, Tulum, Mexico.

“It’s not an aesthetic principle, it’s not about living without, it’s about a commitment to simplify things.”

— John Pawson on Minimalism

March 2 2011  

“If there’s a symbol of everything wrong with television news, it’s the focus on Charlie Sheen. Here we have America caught in historic budget debates that could lead to a shut-down of government, and the Middle East is in the midst of an equally historic democratic uprising — and TV “news” is giving a microphone to a fallen drug user with serious personal issues? It all makes me embarrassed for the news media.”

— Nicholas D. Kristof

March 1 2011  

Waiting for the sun to rise over Tulum, Mexico (about 10 days ago).

February 28 2011  

“We imagine that when we are thrown out of our usual ruts all is lost, but it is only then that what is new and good begins. While there is life there is happiness. There is much, much before us.”

— Leo Tolstoy, War and Peace

February 28 2011  

Sunday morning coffee and owls. via carlo b.

February 27 2011  

Adorable. Photography by Mahmoud Alsafadi

February 26 2011  

Natural beauty. Photograph by unknown

February 25 2011