May 2013
4 posts
April 2013
9 posts
“Some people do not have to search - they find their niche early in life and rest there, seemingly contented and resigned. They do not seem to ask much of life, sometimes they do not seem to take it seriously. At times I envy them, but usually I do not understand them - seldom do they understand me. I am one of the searchers. There are, I believe, millions of us. We are not unhappy, but neither are we really content. We continue to explore life, hoping to uncover its ultimate secret. We continue to explore ourselves, hoping to understand. We like to walk along the beach, we are drawn by the ocean, taken by its power, its unceasing motion, its mystery and unspeakable beauty. We like forests and mountains, deserts and hidden rivers, and the lonely cities as well. Our sadness is as much a part of our lives as is our laughter. To share our sadness with one we love is perhaps as great a joy as we can know – unless it be to share our laughter. We searchers are ambitious only for life itself, for everything beautiful it can provide. Most of all we love and want to be loved. We want to live in a relationship that will not impede our wandering, nor prevent our search, nor lock us in prison walls; that will take us for what little we have to give. We do not want to prove ourselves to another or compete for love.”
—James Kavanaugh, There Are Men Too Gentle To Live Among Wolves
(via soul-surfer)
(via soul-surfer)
“Relax. You will become an adult. You will figure out your career. You will find someone who loves you. You have a whole lifetime; time takes time. The only way to fail at life is to abstain.”
—Johanna de Silentio (via wendesgray)
March 2013
9 posts
“Be yourself. You’re okay.”
—Yohji Yamamoto (via sorakeem)
“Read no newspapers, try to find a few friends who think as you do, read the wonderful writers of earlier times, Kant, Goethe, Lessing, and the classics of other lands, and enjoy the natural beauties of Munich’s surroundings. Make believe all the time that you are living, so to speak, on Mars among alien creatures and blot out any deeper interest in the actions of those creatures. Make friends with a few animals. Then you will become a cheerful man once more and nothing will be able to trouble you.”
—Albert Einstein, in a letter to a despondent unemployed musician. Dude really knew the keys to a good life. Happy birthday, you beautiful genius. (via chels)
“Nothing ever happens like you imagine it will. But then again, if you don’t imagine, nothing ever happens at all.”
—Quentin Jacobsen, Paper Towns (via sorakeem)
“The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.”
—Socrates (via sorakeem)
