- Kurt Vonnegut (via dazedandconfuzzedd)
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Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.
I learned to pick up each piece, one at a time, from my pile of potential matches and try to fit it from any angle into the socket, then discard it and move on. Each failure is meaningless. It’s not me, it’s the pieces, and I have to, absolutely must, try each and every piece every possible way until I find one that fits. They aren’t failures, they’re steps, small bits of progress.
- Craig Clevenger, Dermaphoria (via eatcheesecakenow)
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What’s truly funny is that something momentous is happening, and it’s so real that the media can’t see it. Here it is, the biggest story of all time, and it goes unreported. If you’re continually focused on this and that media event, the latest celebrity scandal, the scattered wars of duality, the deceitful maneuverings of selfish politicians, and the shifting state of a false world economy, you just might miss the greater story. And this greater story is why we are here and what gives our lives meaning.
- Solara, How to Live Large on a Small Planet, 1996 (via heartmindspirit)
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‘As soon as you look at the world through an ideology you are finished. No reality fits an ideology. Life is beyond that. That is why people are always searching for a meaning to life… Meaning is only found when you go beyond meaning. Life only makes sense when you perceive it as mystery and it makes no sense to the conceptualizing mind.’
‘It is a great mystery that though the human heart longs for Truth, in which alone it finds liberation and delight, the first reaction of human beings to Truth is one of hostility and fear!
‘There is only one cause of unhappiness: the false beliefs you have in your head, beliefs so widespread, so commonly held, that it never occurs to you to question them.’
‘As you identify less and less with the “me”, you will be more at ease with everybody and with everything. Do you know why? Because you are no longer afraid of being hurt or not liked. You no longer desire to impress anyone. Can you imagine the relief when you don’t have to impress anybody anymore? Oh, what a relief. Happiness at last!’
‘Wisdom tends to grow in proportion to one’s awareness of one’s ignorance.’
‘Suffering points out that there is falsehood somewhere. Suffering occurs when you clash with reality. When your illusions clash with reality when your falsehoods clash with the truth, then you have suffering. Otherwise there is no suffering’
‘People who want a cure, provided they can have it without pain, are like those who favor progress, provided they can have it without change.’
- -Anthony de Mello, SJ- (The writer that Cardinal Ratzinger once banned.)
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Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life
- Pablo Neruda (via harrissey)
(via loveyourchaos)
I don’t know why people are so keen to put the details of their private life in public. They forget that invisibility is a superpower.
- Banksy (via heartmindspirit)
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Will you make a sail
and find your way across the
ocean of my eyes.
and find your way across the
ocean of my eyes.
- Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
Sometimes it seems like you are the only one in the world who’s struggling, who’s frustrated, unsatisfied, barely getting by. But that feeling’s a lie. And if you just hold on, just find the courage to face it all for another day, someone or something will find you and make it all okay. Because we all need a little help sometimes-someone to helps us hear the music in their world, to remind us that it won’t always be this way. That someone is out there. And that someone will find you.
- One Tree Hill (via jpaige)
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Worrying is carrying tomorrow’s load with today’s strength- carrying two days at once. It is moving into tomorrow ahead of time. Worrying doesn’t empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength.
- Corrie Ten Boom (via justbesplendid)
I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.
- Natalie Portman (via lifeincolourr)
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