“Don’t be afraid to be a fool. Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying yes begins things. Saying yes is how things grow. Saying yes leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.”
—Steven Colbert (via onehundreddollars)
February 2011
January 2011
“If I can put up with your shit, the least you can do is bask in my glory.”
—Ellie McElvain, dropping life mottos all over the place. (via onehundreddollars)
“Those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.”
—Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (via 5oh7)
“Don’t you feel that we’re kind of getting forced to look at shit here? That’s what it’s all about: being forced to come here and look at this monstrous, apocalyptic splintering and re-combining of matter and form through Time. Even the hurt is part of the fun, it’s got meaning, it’s got sweet sensation, it’s very powerful—it’s not a numb feeling, it’s an alive feeling. It’s just that the older we get, the more understanding we have of mortality, the more we become alive, and the more alive you are, the more everything hurts. The tree’s gonna get cut down, the cat’s gonna die, Mom’s gonna die. We’re being forced to accept that in here, everything changes all the time. To be alive is to be in constant metamorphosis: I was once two years old and I was tiny, now I’m this old and eventually I’ll be old and I’ll be bent and then I’ll be dying in a bed somewhere. It’s a constant metamorphosis of form. If you watched it from an outside perspective, you’d just see us as whirling matter catapulted through the thorny mess of Time, and see the friction of it, the relentless wearing down of skin from our youth. It seems painful and insane but that must be the point: we’re here to feel things.”
—Grant Morrison, September 2004 Arthur Magazine
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“Why don’t atheists ever make this point - pizza is delicious, and salad is awful. What kind of loving god would do that to us?”
—http://twitter.com/Richter_Andy
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“I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions.”
-Augusten Burroughs