To be nobody but yourself in a world which is doing its best night and day to make you everybody else means to fight the hardest battle which any human being can fight, and never stop fighting.
E. E. Cummings
I do believe you have a wound too. I do believe it is both specific to you and common to everyone. I do believe it is the thing about you that must be hidden and protected, it is the thing that must be tap danced over five shows a day, it is the thing that won’t be interesting to other people if revealed. It is the thing that makes you weak and pathetic. It is the thing that truly, truly, truly makes loving you impossible. It is your secret, even from yourself. But it is the thing that wants to live. It is the thing from which your art, your painting, your dance, your composition, your philosophical treatise, your screenplay is born.
Charlie Kaufman
Love is not enough. It must be the foundation, the cornerstone-but not the complete structure. It is much too pliable, too yielding.
Bette Davis (reblogged via uppereastside)
Love is an untamed force. When we try to control it, it destroys us. When we try to imprison it, it enslaves us. When we try to understand it, it leaves us feeling lost and confused.
Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
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Desperation - it’s the world’s worst cologne.
Debbie Hunt, Singles
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We are fallible. We make mistakes, and fall victim to the temptations of pride, and power, and sometimes evil. Even those of us with the best intentions will at times fail to right the wrongs before us.
But we do not have to think that human nature is perfect for us to still believe that the human condition can be perfected. We do not have to live in an idealized world to still reach for those ideals that will make it a better place.
Overly idealistic?
…a just peace includes not only civil and political rights - it must encompass economic security and opportunity. For true peace is not just freedom from fear, but freedom from want.
More of Obama’s philosophy of peace
Source: MSNBC
For peace is not merely the absence of visible conflict. Only a just peace based upon the inherent rights and dignity of every individual can truly be lasting.
Obama on the nature of peace we should aim for
Source: MSNBC
Our actions matter, and can bend history in the direction of justice.
Barack Obama, accepting the 2009 Nobel Peace Prize
Source: MSNBC
Bite your tongue
You’re not the only one
Who’s been let down
Bite your tongue
Maybe it’s good for you
To hit the ground
Duncan Sheik’s “Bite Your Tongue”
What is straight? A line can be straight, or a street, but the human heart, oh, no, it’s curved like a road through mountains.
Tennessee Williams, A Streetcar Named Desire, 1947 (via pinkpanthers) (via starfuckerblog) (via jonhenry) (via jockohomo)
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Sex relieves tension - love causes it.
Woody Allen (via gatekeeper) (via quote-book)
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If God wanted us to have hindsight, he would’ve put eyes on our butts.
Stephen Colbert (via twothirty)
i’m a night owl. and an early bird. so i am wise, and i have worms.
Michael Scott, “The Office” (via abirdfriend)
I found a tidal wave
Begging to tear down the dawn
Memories like bullets
They fired at me from a gun
A crack in the armor I swim to brighter days
Despite the absence of sun
Choking on salt water
I’m not giving in
I swim
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