you need to be

Go out for a walk. It doesn't have to be a romantic walk in the park, spring at its most spectacular moment, flowers and smells and outstanding poetical imagery smoothly transferring you into another world. It doesn't have to be a walk during which you'll have multiple life epiphanies and discover meanings no other brain ever managed to encounter. Do not be afraid of spending quality time by yourself. Find meaning or don't find meaning but ‘steal’ some time and give it freely and exclusively to your own self. Opt for privacy and solitude. That doesn't make you antisocial or cause you to reject the rest of the world. But you need to breathe. And you need to be.


Albert Camus

fear

Holding people away from you, and denying yourself love, that doesn't make you strong. If anything, it makes you weaker. Because you're doing it out of fear.

Sarah Dessen


sometimes I get the feeling that tumblr is trying to tell me something, judging by the things that show on my dashboard. sneaky.

note to self

I must change my life so that I can live it,
not wait for it.

Susan Sontag

numb

You can spend years numbing yourself out, your fear of being hurt, rejected, even loved...but you can never numb the loneliness you traded for it.

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meaning

And people get all fouled up because they want the world to have meaning as if it were words... As if you had a meaning, as if you were a mere word, as if you were something that could be looked up in a dictionary. You are meaning.

Alan W. Watts

helplessness

The tiredness of this generation is something so much deeper than a lack of sleep; there is helplessness in the air and we confuse it for oxygen.

Michael Lottner

decisions

If you obsess over whether you are making the right decision, you are basically assuming that the universe will reward you for one thing and punish you for another. The universe has no fixed agenda. Once you make any decision, it works around that decision. There is no right or wrong, only a series of possibilities that shift with each thought, feeling, and action that you experience.

Deepak Chopra

friendly reminder

Honesty is a very expensive gift,
Don't expect it from cheap people.

Warren Buffett

we are responsible for our own fulfillment

When we're incomplete, we're always searching for somebody to complete us. When, after a few years or a few months of a relationship, we find that we're still unfulfilled, we blame our partners and take up with somebody more promising. This can go on and on--series polygamy--until we admit that while a partner can add sweet dimensions to our lives, we, each of us, are responsible for our own fulfillment. Nobody else can provide it for us, and to believe otherwise is to delude ourselves dangerously and to program for eventual failure every relationship we enter.

Tom Robbins

once hate is gone

I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.

Notes of a Native Son, James Baldwin

kindness

It is a bit embarrassing to have been concerned with the human problem all one's life and find at the end that one has no more to offer by way of advice than "Try to be a little kinder."

Aldous Huxley

choose friends who are not just nice

Everyone can be nice. It's easy, like baking brownies from a box. But niceness, like artificial sweetener, is a flavor that becomes boring, bland, all too quickly. Choose, instead, friends with a tad more spice — passionate and intense like chipotle pepper, refreshing like mint leaves, distinctive and intriguing like cinnamon. Choose the ones whose inanities, vulgarities make you laugh so hard you trickle in your pants, the ones whose philosophies challenge your own late into the night, who are worthy adversaries in thought and tongue. Choose the ones “who are mad to live, mad to talk…the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing.” Choose the ones you learn from every time, who illuminate, teach an unfamiliar way of thinking. Choose the ones that inspire you to do more, be more. Choose friends who are not just nice.

Choose Your Friends, Lilian

the need to open up

All the films I make are about the need to open up. About the need to communicate on another level, rather than just talking about the quality of wine, car prices, etc. You have to break through the barrier of shame, and the feeling that you mustn’t be weak. That’s what I think.

by Krzysztof Kieślowski

Challenge your feelings of inadequacy

Perform the actions that you falsely believe you can't do. It will help extinguish false beliefs.
Your inadequate feelings will cease to have actual power when you continuously prove them wrong.


Brittany Josephina

abyss

And if you are not a bird,
then beware of coming to rest above an abyss.

Friedrich Nietzsche

all meanings depend on the key of interpretation

What makes us human, and what makes each of us his or her own human, is not simply the genes that we have buried into our base pairs, but how our cells, in dialogue with our environment, feed back to our DNA, changing the way we read ourselves. Life is a dialectic.


Jonah Lehrer (via)

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blossom

my new desktop background


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never idealize others

You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to accomplish. I have no responsibility to be like they expect me to be. It’s their mistake, not my failing.


Surely You're Joking, Mr. Feynman!, Richard P. Feynman