“Traveling forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things – air, sleep, dreams, the sea, the sky – all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
— Cesare Pavese (via freepeople)
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11:37 pm • 14 March 2012 • 501 notes
“I’d like to raise both of my middle fingers to him and anyone who thinks profanity is somehow more harmful to our children than images of violence and misogyny.”
— M.I.A.
12:07 pm • 7 February 2012 • 5,486 notes
“I do not fear death, in view of the fact that I had been dead for billions and billions of years before I was born, and had not suffered the slightest inconvenience from it.”
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Mark Twain (via thechocolatebrigade)
I’m terribly afraid of dying truth be told, but this quote brilliantly explains why I’m not bothered about there not being an afterlife
9:36 am • 8 December 2011 • 270 notes
“You know what’s wrong with you, Miss Whoever-You-Are? You’re chicken, you’ve got no guts. You’re afraid to stick out your chin and say, “Okay, life’s a fact, people do fall in love, people do belong to each other, because that’s the only chance anybody’s got for real happiness.” You call yourself a free spirit, a wild thing, and you’re terrified somebody’s going to stick you in a cage. Well, baby, you’re already in that cage. You built it yourself. And it’s not bounded in the west by Tulip, Texas, or in the east by Somaliland. It’s wherever you go. Because no matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
— Breakfast at Tiffany’s (via alyssajeanszarkowski)
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6:49 am • 7 December 2011 • 92 notes
“Through violence you may murder a murderer, but you can’t murder murder. Through violence you may murder a liar, but you can’t establish truth. Through violence you may murder a hater, but you can’t murder hate. Darkness cannot put out darkness. Only light can do that…”
— Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
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3:54 am • 11 November 2011 • 31 notes
“Pour yourself a drink, put on some lipstick, and pull yourself together.”
— Elizabeth Taylor
7:27 am • 9 November 2011 • 10 notes
“Back then the media illusion was that the aspirations of girls and women weren’t changing at all when they were. Now, the media illusion is that equality for girls and women is an accomplished fact when it isn’t.”
— Susan Douglas, Enlightened Sexism (via bullshitwonder)
4:21 am • 4 November 2011 • 5 notes
“Don’t use expensive clothes as a screen for your personal doubts. Be proud of yourself.”
— Karl Lagerfeld
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8:41 am • 3 November 2011 • 425 notes
“I think it’s much more interesting to live not knowing than to have answers which might be wrong… I don’t feel frightened by being lost in a mysterious universe without any purpose, which is the way it really is as far as I can tell.”
— Richard Feynman (1918-1988), American Nobel-winning physicist/comedian/bongo player. Helped develop the atomic bomb. Did important work in particle theory, superconductivity, and quantum computing. First to publicly propose nanotechnology (1959).
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5:10 am • 2 November 2011 • 16 notes
