March 2012
33 posts
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.”
—Viktor Frankl (via Roman’s FB post)
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laughs and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled, masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”
—Theodore I. Rubin, MD (via whatthebodysays)
“The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.”
—Thomas Hardy (via city-night-lights)
“Remember again when you were a child. You thought that some day you would grow up and find a world of real adults — the people who really made things run — and understood how and why things ran. People like the Martian aristocrats in science fiction. Your father and mother were pretty silly, and the other grownups were even worse — but somewhere, some day, you’d find the real grownups and possibly even be admitted to their ranks. Then, as the years went on, you learned, through more or less bitter experience, that there aren’t, and never have been, any such people, anywhere. Life is just a mess, full of tall children, grown stupider, less alert and resilient, and nobody knows what makes it go — as a whole, or any part of it. But nobody ever tells.”
—Kenneth Rexroth, from his essay “The Reality of Henry Miller” (via uglyuglyugly)
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My best friend Guru was going to break the glass and jump out of the Cafe Coffee Day building. I almost let him do it.
Why because I will also do the same. You also want to do the same thing I know.
Then what man? Whenever and wherever you go, people are asking only one thing. When you are…
