Unknown pleasures.
A child has no trouble believing the unbelievable, nor does the genius or the madman. It’s only you and I, with our big brains and our tiny hearts, who doubt and overthink and hesitate.
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Steven Pressfield, Do The Work |
Saturday, May 26, 2012
Something invisible snapped inside of me, the not knowing could not keep me from caring. My memory bank is full and I’m learning helplessness. If I picture it, I’ll learn it because you can’t remember what you don’t know. I think I finally understand the unthinkable, sometimes I have to organize my thinking or I’ll get confused. If I fantasize hard enough everything almost seems like memories.
Imagining the future is a kind of nostalgia. You spend your whole life stuck in the labyrinth, thinking about how you’ll escape it one day, and how awesome it will be, and imagining the future keeps you going, but you never do it. You just use the future to escape the present.
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Looking for Alaska, John Green. |
Two possibilities exist:
Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.
Either we are alone in the Universe or we are not.
Both are equally terrifying.
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Arthur C. Clarke |
Respect yourself enough to walk away from anything that no longer serves you, grows you, or makes you happy.
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(via intheflowersss) |
What else? She is so beautiful. You don’t get tired of looking at her. You never worry if she is smarter than you: You know she is. She is funny without ever being mean. I love her. I am so lucky to love her, Van Houten. You don’t get to choose if you get hurt in this world, old man, but you do have some say in who hurts you. I like my choices. I hope she likes hers.
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| — | Augustus Waters - John Green, The Fault In Our Stars (via theactof-living) |
