March 2012
friend: someone told me you look like an owl
me: who?
the whole class bursts into a roaring flame of laughter. tears start to fall from their eyes from laughing so hard. the principal walks in the room and slaps his knee. the local animals come in and create waves of laughter. god is laughing so hard he cant breathe. jesus starts clapping his hands and cracking up. the laughter dies down after about 2 hours, and everybody goes home with the memory of the funniest joke they've ever heard.
Butterflies can’t see their own wings. They can’t see the intricate patterns and delicately painted colors. They don’t know that they’re beautiful. People are kind of like that too.
As far as things like morals and love go, I like extreme darkness and extreme light. The devil and God sit on my shoulders and I allot for them each the same time in the spotlight. I give them equal consideration when they whisper ideas that echo through the vast chamber of my subconscious. To know one is to know the other. On this ongoing quest to discover the meaning of what it is to be human,...
“I love people. Everybody. I love them, I think, as a stamp collector loves his...”
– Sylvia Plath, Poet and author of ‘The Bell Jar’
(via sexismandthecity)
“I carry death in my left pocket. Sometimes I take it out and talk to it: “Hello,...”
– Charles Bukowski (via eleoele)
“An unproblematic state is a state without creative thought. Its other name is...”
– David Deutsche (via nathanielstuart)
“Only when you require no approval from outside yourself can you own yourself.”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via nirvikalpa)
“I have to re-create the universe every morning when I wake up. And kill it in...”
– Björk (via lucifelle)
February 2012
“You have every right to put a book down after a couple of pages, which is why...”
– Tim Parks, Mindful Reading (via distantheartbeats)
“He who does not understand your silence will probably not understand your words.”
– Elbert Hubbard (via moreofamore)
“Because it’s a story that reminds us of the worst part of humanity. We’re living...”
– Jennifer Lawrence on The Hunger Games (via sharetheturnips)
“For things to reveal themselves to us, we need to be ready to abandon our views...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via observedintoexistence)
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...”
– Captain Corelli’s Mandolin, Louis de Bernières (via lifeinpoetry)
“As one individual changes, the system changes.”
– Ram Dass (via lucifelle)
“Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close..
You may occasionally...”
– Timothy Leary (via elige)
“Everything you do right now ripples outward and affects everyone. Your posture...”
– David Deida (via observedintoexistence)
“The world has enough beautiful mountains and meadows, spectacular skies and...”
– Michael Josephson (via misswallflower)
“And your very flesh shall be a great poem.”
– Walt Whitman (via empty-the-moon)
That’s what all these tattoos are for! ;)
Creative Genius or Psychotic? A Strong Correlation →
“To me, embracing the freedom to think what you want, being true to yourself and...”
– Max Bemis (via too-old)
“People are strange: they are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a...”
– Charles Bukowski (via observedintoexistence)
