- pale blue dot
- ...and these children / that you spit on / as they try to change their worlds / are immune to your consultations. / they're quite aware / of what they're going through...
- a controlled descent is still falling. (warren ellis)
- all journeys have secret destinations of which the traveler is unaware. (martin buber)
- all roads lead to rome
- and i have a tender spot in my heart for cripples and bastards and broken things. (tyrion lannister, a song of ice and fire)
- and thus i clothe my naked villany with odd old ends stolen out of holy writ, and seem a saint, when most i play the devil.
- après nous, le déluge/pärast meid tulgu või veeuputus
- but it’s good to struggle, isn’t it? it’s good to have a bit of fucking struggle because, if there are absolutely no obstacles in life, you don’t have a chance to grow. and listen, nothing that’s great has ever come out of a place of surety – every creative or scientific breakthrough has come through the premise of ‘i don’t know’. i love that. i love that, in order to know something, you have to admit to not knowing. (andrew scott)
- courage is not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it.
- do never give up bro i belive at you
- first of all, my parents live in ohio. i live in the moment. (ted mosby, how i met your mother)
- give to a gracious message a host of tongues, but let ill tidings tell themselves when they be felt
- i either eat too much of starve myself. sleep for 14 hours or have insomniac nights. fall in love very hard or hate passionately. i don't know what grey is. i never did.
- il faut battre le fer pendant qu'il est chaud/strike while the iron is hot
- il faut manger pour vivre et non pas vivre pour manger/on vaja süüa selleks et elada ja mitte elada selleks et süüa
- in every port in the world, at least two estonians can be found. (hemingway)
- one may tolerate a world of demons for the sake of an angel. (marquise de pompadour, doctor who)
- only the mediocre are always at their best
- otherwise, what you have to do is -- you have to twist around. you hook one elbow behind your knee and pull that leg up into your face. you bite and snap at your own ass. you run out of air, and you will chew through anything to get that next breath. [---] if i told you how it tasted, you would never, ever again eat calamari. (chuck palahniuk, guts)
- people are screens; you're the projector. maybe try and be a happy one. (dottie james)
- petit à petit l'oiseau fait son nid/rome wasn't built in a day/tasa sõuad kaugele jõuad
- richard ayoade on confidence, 8 out of 10 cats (season 12 episode 1)
- "i find the best way (to boost your self-confidence) is to lie to yourself... about who you are, what you've done... and where you're going."
- "what sort of thing have you told yourself, richard?"
- "that it's all alright..."
- "is it a massive lie?"
- "it is a lie, i mean, it's, i mean, look. it's not true."
- "what about where you're going, what do you say to yourself?"
- "yeah, i say i am going somewhere."
- risking your life and doing something that could rob you of your life are exact opposites. (l lawliet, death note)
- some people live more in 20 years than others do in 80. it's not the time that matters, it's the person.
- the morning is wiser than the evening/утро вечера мудренее/hommik on õhtust targem
- the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing.
- the secret of success is sincerity. once you can fake that you've got it made.
- there are two things in life for which we are never truly prepared: twins.
- there is no such thing as a failed experiment, only experiments with unexpected outcomes. (richard buckminster fuller)
- we're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! that alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. we are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. (charles bukowski)
- WE'VE GOT PENTAGON'S TOP CRYPTOLOGISTS WORKING 24/7 TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT THE FUCK YOU JUST SAID.
- be like pizza. be cheesy. say sentimental things bc you feel them sincerely. think about all the things your mind can make. be amazed that in face of uncertainty people do stuff like invent oreos and fly in rocketships and write books about iconic wizards (k.flay)
- and kid, you’ve got to love yourself. you’ve got wake up at four in the morning, brew black coffee, and stare at the birds drowning in the darkness of the dawn. you’ve got to sit next to the man at the train station who’s reading your favorite book and start a conversation. you’ve got to come home after a bad day and burn your skin from a shower. then you’ve got to wash all your sheets until they smell of lemon detergent you bought for four dollars at the local grocery store. you’ve got to stop taking everything so goddam personally. you are not the moon kissing the black sky. you’ve got to compliment someones crooked brows at an art fair and tell them that their eyes remind you of green swimming pools in mid july. you’ve got to stop letting yourself get upset about things that won’t matter in two years. sleep in on saturday mornings and wake yourself up early on sunday. you’ve got to stop worrying about what you’re going to tell her when she finds out. you’ve got to stop over thinking why he stopped caring about you over six months ago. you’ve got to stop asking everyone for their opinions. fuck it. love yourself, kiddo. you’ve got to love yourself.
- tule ma teen sulle piparmündi teed, sa tule ja soojenda mind
- 13 things my uncle told me before he died:
- not everyone has the blessing to understand sadness
- when waiting at the bus stop, it’s okay to smoke cigarettes
- never touch anyone else’s clothes at the laundromat
- it’s okay to miss the people who were bullets to you
- when your grandmother asks you how you are, be honest
- never be afraid to say “no” even after you’ve said “yes”
- if someone tells you graffiti isn’t art, prove them wrong
- remember people by their eye color not their clothes
- you’re allowed to like dark chocolate with tangerines
- don’t lie that you don’t have a lighter when you really do
- turn your phone off every once in a while and find the moon
- if you want a tattoo, don’t let anyone tell you not to get it
- if you ever find yourself at the graveyard, read the names
- who are you?
- i mean, other than the average... school teacher, lawyer, manager, student, pupil...
- who are you?
- maybe you're the nicest smelling person in your friendship group.
- or the only person in history to have said that particular arrangement of words.
- you might even have been the first person in the country to open your eyes this morning.
- or maybe you were the only twenty-something year old to jump in that particular puddle.
- could it be that you were the first person to have laid eyes on that leaf from that tree?
- maybe you're the most proficient person in your town at remembering your dreams
- or tying your shoelaces in under two seconds.
- what if the water you're drinking actually did pass through a dinosaur?
- or your favourite celebrity... depending on how creepy you want to get.
- if i say the word 'heaven', a completely unique image might pop into your head. the same is true of the word 'pavement'.
- you might have been the only thing in the world to look at the sun while thinking of a dog walking on its hind legs.
- you could be someone's favourite person in the whole world.
- you could be part of someone's first memory, or a stranger in their favourite photograph.
- you could be the person they fell in love with on the train this morning.
- you might be the only person watching this right now whilst simultaneously playing the flute... and if you are doing that, you probably are the only person doing that.
- you could smile at a complete stranger and make their day.
- you could be... quietly extraordinary.
- you're always in a moment. if you're not enjoying it, why bother being in it?
- you gotta get your shit together. so yesterday you let yourself fall in love a little bit and you got your heart broken. serves you right for having feelings! starting now you are a hard, heartless career gal. go to work, be awesome at it, and don't waste time on foolish flights of fancy. from now on, you're a robot. beep bop boop blerp bleep.
- he told me to do everything i was doing, but to do it backwards and upside down, and to have a wonderful time doing it.
- you are not defined by what you lack, but by what you can give
- just because someone else has something you don't, doesn't mean you don't have something
- Ggrown-ups like numbers. when you tell them about a new friend, they never ask questions about what really matters. they never ask: ‘what does his voice sound like?’ ‘what games does he like best?’ ‘does he collect butterflies?’ they ask: ‘how old is he?’ ‘how many brothers does he have?’ ‘how much does he weigh?’ ‘how much money does he have?’ only then do they think they know him. if you tell grown-ups, ‘i saw a beautiful red brick house, with geraniums at the windows and doves at the roof…,’ they won’t be able to imagine such a house. you have to tell them, ‘i saw a house worth a thousand francs.’ then they exclaim, ‘what a pretty house!’ (the little prince, antoine de saint-exupéry)
- eks löögem käed, mu härra! uskuge: / mis tõprast eristab meid - naer on see. / nii inimest võid tunda sellest sa, / et õigel ajal suudab naerda ta.
- suur lust on olla hull / ent seda lusti tunneb ainult hull
- there is no right way to "live". the ability to feel alive has nothing to do with what you have or have not experienced, but rather, what you've done with the experiences you've been granted. you may not or may never be in the shoes of somebody whose life you admire, but there is so much opportunity around you to make your own life into something admirable. your rapture can be different.
- you have so much to give and it will always outweight what you may feel that you lack.
- there are two sides to every story and it makes it very hard to stay mad when you know that there are reasons why someone might be acting out. you have every right to feel upset but it would be unfortunate to let your anger prevail over your happiness
- be receptive of life's brilliance, but do not begin to expect it
- there is an endless supply of happiness located within the depths of your larynx
- the gears of life are spinning
- you can get what you want but it's never enough
- find something about the you experience that you know that you love. and something that is so personal and so yours that the world or the universe can never take it away from you
- pauses are pivotal to improvement
- something's gotta give
- don't not do things because you're bad at them
- just work on being who you want to be, eventually you will meet people who like the you that you like too
- there's an entire language written in the spaces between words
- make less thy body hence, and more thy grace; leave gormandizing.
- eat not to dullness; drink not to elevation.
- we're just miniscule dots in the vast cosmic emptiness of the universe.
- le monde est plein de gens qui ne sont pas plus sages: - tout bourgeois veut bâtir comme les grands seigneurs; - tout prince a des ambassadeurs; - tout marquis veut avoir des pages.
- but break, my heart, for i must hold my tongue (hamlet)
- virtue itself ’scapes not calumnious strokes. (hamlet)
- a violet in the youth of primy nature, forward, not permanent, sweet, not lasting, the perfume and suppliance of a minute. (hamlet)
- david, here it is. my philosophy is basically this. and this is something that i live by. and i always have. and i always will. don't ever, for any reason, do anything, to anyone, for any reason, ever. no matter what. no matter... where. or who, or who you are with, or where you are going, or... or where you've been... ever. for any reason, whatsoever.
- without pain and discomfort, happiness would be a norm
- the thing that's different about me, empirically speaking, is you (elementary)
- teach me laughter, save my soul!
- the things i worried about are not important. the things about which i did not worry - they may prove to matter.
- add a dab of lavender to your milk, leave town with an orange, and pretend you're laughing at it.
- whores will have their trinkets
aug 9 2015 ∞
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