December 2011
“When you are inspired by some great purpose, some extraordinary project, all...”
– Patanjali (via lucifelle)
“Thank you so much! I don’t know if y’all read the newspaper or watch the...”
– Conor Oberst introducing Old Soul Song (For the New World Order) as SXSW. (via cosmicallyfuckedup)
“Depression is humiliating. It turns intelligent, kind people into zombies who...”
– (via ohthewaywardwind)
Questions
catlover261:
Children ask on average 437 questions a day. Their sentences begin with why and what and how and to them the world is beautiful and wonderous and infinitely fascinating. There is so much yet to do, and so much yet to know. All the places not yet explored and the things not yet seen, the people they’ve yet to meet, the things they’ve yet to feel. They fill their days with questions...
twonotebooks:
… and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your body.
-Walt Whitman
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New Years is such bullshit.
Aside from time being a human constructed concept, it’s just another example of how people are trapped in the mindset of living for some great future where all of your dreams magically come true without you really having to put in an effort to change.
All you fucking have is now. Every day you wake up may as well be a new year. Every morning you’re given...
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
– Betty Friedan (via girlwithoutwings)
“The basic tool for the manipulation of reality is the manipulation of words. If...”
– Philip K. Dick
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“What does it mean, insane? A legal definition. What do I mean? I feel it, see...”
– Philip K. Dick
“Maybe each human being lives in a unique world, a private world different from...”
– Philip K. Dick (via weffanie)
“By believing passionately in something that still does not exist, we create it....”
– Franz Kafka (via bassington)
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I think some people, when they’re upset or frustrated, daydream about being in a mansion, or on the beach, or being famous.
After prolonged exposure to civilization/excessive human contact, I have this most romantic fantasy about living all alone in the woods in a cabin. Of course, I’m not really alone because I have fictional friends galore. oh and also, I have one boy cat and one...
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via creatingaquietmind)
“Confidence is the willingness to be as ridiculous, luminous, intelligent, and...”
– Susan Piver (via nirvikalpa)
“The mind is the root from which all things grow. If you can understand the mind,...”
– Bodhidharma (via commondense)
“When I turned 18, I felt I was grown up. Then when I was 21, I reflected, ‘Boy,...”
– Shelley Duvall (via beautilation)
“The concept behind personal integrity is wholeness. When a person is the same...”
– William Backus (via creatingaquietmind)
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realgaran asked: Your writings are incredible and introspective, therefore I must follow. Also, what books do you read?
“I like drinking coffee alone and reading alone. I like riding the bus alone and...”
– (via overboarddd)