August 2011
172 posts
“Things have not changed: I always feel alone, isolated. I even feel more that way at 44 than when I was 20 or 30. I learned to take care of me, to appreciate my own company. I have understood that there are not so many interesting people outside, so I prefer to stay home, with myself… I’m my best friend. I go to bed with me, I wake up with me, me and myself will never divorce and we have good times. I’m lucky.”
—Morrissey (2004)
“I think you still love me, but we can’t escape the fact that I’m not enough for you. I knew this was going to happen. So I’m not blaming you for falling in love with another woman. I’m not angry, either. I should be, but I’m not. I just feel pain. A lot of pain. I thought I could imagine how much this would hurt, but I was wrong.”
—Haruki Murakami (via aeloquence)
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”
—William Saroyan (via mishsquish)
“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
—Joseph Campbell (via tangerine-skies)
“Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I’m not living.”
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Jonathan Safran Foer
I don’t think I’ve ever related to any set of words as much.
(via tangerine-skies)
“The moment you feel you are no longer dependent on anyone, a deep coolness and a deep silence settles inside, a relaxed let-go. It does not mean you stop loving. On the contrary, for the first time you know a new quality, a new dimension of love—a love that is no longer biological, a love that is closer to friendliness than any relationship. That’s why I am not even using the word friendship, because that “ship” has drowned so many people”
—Osho (via tangerine-skies)
❂: Thank Our Food →
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I’ve lectured on this subject a number of times, and invariably the audience groans when they find out that vegetables, fruits, yogurt, eggs and the living cells in raw meat are all “screaming” when they are cooked and/or eaten. Even hard-core vegan/vegetarian/raw foodists who consider themselves to be on a “cruelty-free” diet are now faced with the fact that the food they eat must go through measurable distress—at least from a human’s perspective. Even if you do not cook your vegetables, your digestive activity still has a “burning” effect. [Dr. Cleve] Backster did tell me that if you “pray” over your food, by sending positive, loving thoughts, it then seems to accept its role in helping you stay alive—and these severe reactions no longer occur. Many cultures and spiritual traditions encourage us to “thank our food.” With Backster’s research we now see that this seemingly unimportant behaviour—from a scientific standpoint—has a definite purpose.
“You know the typical crowd, Wow, it’s Friday night, what are you going to do? Just sit there? Well, yeah. I’ve never been bothered with the need to rush out into the night. That’s all. Sorry for all the millions, but I’ve never been lonely. I like myself. I’m the best form of entertainment I have.”
—Charles Bukowski (via suzywire)
Once you realize as a person that you do not exist on this planet to be aesthetically pleasing to other people you will be a lot happier overall with yourself.
so true
“The only three things a guy should want to change about his girl is her last name, address, and her viewpoint on men.”
—Kid Cudi (via longlivethequeen)
free.: You probably own a pair of TOMS, don't you? [Then keep reading] →
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While I have yet to figure out if this was an attempt to flirt with me or to offend me, this is part of a conversation I had at my dentist’s office today.
Me: Yeah, I study literature.
Man: You study literature and you wear fancy scarves? Hah, you…
I HATE TOMS. not to mention they are made in china. its like come on.
what are you gonna do? are you going to enter the corporate world sitting in a cubical all day answering phone call after phone call? “sorry the man is out in a meeting, I’ll take a message.” just because the pay is high? just so you can afford that brand new sports car to show off to your coworkers in the parking lot? and buy expensive clothes that have tags with famous brand name labels? or are you going to follow your heart and soul, write books, make art, run a shop with an affordable price range with handmade clothes and jewelry, travel your country, travel the world, maybe take your travels outside of this planet, be a therapist for a reasonable price so all that need that extra lift can achieve that, find your soulmate, have a family, feed your family with non processed foods homemade, forget the local fine dining restaurants, walk down the street instead of drive, talk, listen, laugh, dance, love, be, work with animals, help others, make them happy, your job here on earth is to be happy, and let your inspiration flow, not your money.
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
—Jonathan Safran Foer (via busfullofpeace)
“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”
—Anais Nin (via aeloquence)
