"An extraterrestrial, newly arrive on Earth- scrutinizing what we mainly present to our children in television, radio, movies, newspapers, magazines, the comics, and many books- might easily conclude that we are intent on teaching them murder, rape, cruelty, superstition, credulity, and consumerism. We keep at it, and through constant repetition many of them finally get it. What kind of society could we create if, instead, we drummed into them science and a sense of hope?"
Carl Sagan (via o-liv)
"Your 20s will be awkward. You’ll be too old for this and too young for that. You’re going to make mistakes. Lots of them. Embrace every moment."
(via c0ntemplations)
(via midwestern-darling)
"Opinion is really the lowest form of human knowledge. It requires no accountability, no understanding. The highest form of knowledge is empathy, for it requires us to suspend our egos and live in another’s world."
Bill Bullard (via stardust-seedling)
(via daphneemarie)
"Understand me. I’m not like an ordinary world. I have my madness, I live in another dimension and I do not have time for things that have no soul."
"The writer must believe that what he is doing is the most important thing in the world. And he must hold to this illusion even when he knows it is not true."
"Whenever you worry, remember, you are deepening the cosmic delusion within you."
Sri Paramahansa Yogananda (Divine Romance, p29)
(Source: kkdas, via fishingicehole)
"The misfortune of the wise is better than the prosperity of the fool."
"If you have the guts to be yourself, other people’ll pay your price."
"I wish I could do whatever I liked behind the curtain of “madness”. Then: I’d arrange flowers, all day long, I’d paint; pain, love and tenderness, I would laugh as much as I feel like at the stupidity of others, and they would all say: “Poor thing, she’s crazy!” (Above all I would laugh at my own stupidity.) I would build my world which while I lived, would be in agreement with all the worlds. The day, or the hour, or the minute that I lived would be mine and everyone else’s - my madness would not be an escape from “reality”."
"Nothing exists until or unless it is observed. An artist is making something exist by observing it. And his hope for other people is that they will also make it exist by observing it. I call it ‘creative observation.’ Creative viewing."
"…I long so much to make beautiful things. But beautiful things require effort — and disappointment and perseverance."
Vincent van Gogh,“Letter to Theo van Gogh,” 9 Sept. 1882 (via vincentvangogh-art)
(via coffeeinthemountains)
"If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."
emes:
this is who comes and escorts u to heaven after u die
ok make me cry
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