This is the secret to life.
Politicalprof: David Foster Wallace explains it all to you. Listen.
There is no way to overstate how much we recommend taking 10 minutes to watch this video.
I’m really glad I watched this, and I think people have nothing to lose and all the more to gain from doing the same.
I’ve learned that some broken things stay broken, and I’ve learned that you can get through bad times and keep looking for better ones, as long as you have people who love you.
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| — | Jennifer Weiner (via kari-shma) |
You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.
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| — | Mary Tyler Moore (via thesearepeopleyouknow) |
Many films diminish us. They cheapen us, masturbate our senses, hammer us with shabby thrills, diminish the value of life. Some few films evoke the wonderment of life’s experience, and those I consider a form of prayer. Not prayer “to” anyone or anything, but prayer “about” everyone and everything. I believe prayer that makes requests is pointless. What will be, will be. But I value the kind of prayer when you stand at the edge of the sea, or beneath a tree, or smell a flower, or love someone, or do a good thing. Those prayers validate existence and snatch it away from meaningless routine.
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| — | Roger Ebert (via parabola-magazine) |
We can let the circumstances of our lives harden us
so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice.
so that we become increasingly resentful and afraid,
or we can let them soften us, and make us kinder.
We always have the choice.
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| — | Dalai Lama (via yogachocolatelove) |
One day, someone showed me a glass of water that was half full. And he said, “Is it half full or half empty?” So I drank the water. No more problem.
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| — | Alejandro Jodorowsky (via mythologyofblue) |
There were moments in a person’s life that they would carry with them until their dying day, and Finely knew the moment Jasper’s heart broke would be one of those for her.
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The Girl in the Clockwork Collar (Steampunk Chronicles #2) - Kady Cross (via effyeahyoungadultlit) |
So build yourself as beautiful as you want your world to be. Wrap yourself in light then give yourself away with your heart, your brush, your march, your art, your poetry, your play. And for every day you paint the war, take a week and paint the beauty, the colour, the shape of the landscape you’re marching towards. Everyone knows what you’re against; show them what you’re for.
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| — | Andrea Gibson, “Evolution” (via slychedelic) |
