— Kahlil Gibran (via tortillaknife)
(via tortillaknife)
— In Which We Request A Do-Over On This Last Decade - This Recording (via jeeves)
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
People rarely use the second part of this quote. It is the more important part though, I think.
— Emerson (courtesy of my friend Emily)
—
What’s the vision? - StartupTalk
the plan will change. the vision provides meaning and keeps everything moving forward. through challenges and failures, a vision reminds you why what you’re doing matters.
what’s your vision?
(via heyamberrae)
—
Emerson
I wish I could find that librarian, Mrs. Kelly, to thank her, to let her know how she saved my life during a really rough spell by introducing me to Emerson (the quote above), and how many times it’s given me comfort since then.
I acquired Jack Gilbert’s collection, “The Great Fires” the other day at City Lights in SF; I returned there to celebrate the anniversary of my first poetry purchase, also Gilbert, a year earlier. I gave away “Refusing Heaven” to someone worthy of it. Now I begin what is certain to be an extended affair with this new collection. One early poem reminds me of why I fell in love with Gilbert - his irreverence, quickness, humor.
—
Lovers
When I hear men boast about how passionate
they are, I think of the two cleaning ladies
at the second-story window watching a man
coming back from a party where there was
lots of free beer. He runs in and out
of buildings looking for a toilet. “My Lord,”
the tall woman says, “that fellow down there
surely does love architecture.”
— Jeffrey McDaniel (via wolvesatnight) (via tortillaknife, beautiful, thanks!)
— Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
Adrienne Rich once wrote, “When someone with the authority of a teacher, say, describes the world and you are not in it, there is a moment of psychic disequilibrium, as if you looked into a mirror and saw nothing.”
She was talking about the fact that some significant part of our self-perceptions, and the possibilities that we perceive for ourselves, depends on seeing people who we relate to and what they’ve accomplished.
This photo represents a moment of psychic equilibrium, a re-imagining and affirmation of self, for so many of us.
— Matt, “He Asked, They Told”
— Cornel West, Tavis Smiley Show
If a man find no prudent companion who walks with him, is wise, and lives soberly, let him walk alone, like a king who has left his conquered country behind,—like an elephant in the forest.
It is better to live alone, there is no companionship with a fool; let a man walk alone, let him commit no sin, with few wishes, like an elephant in the forest.
"— The Dhammapada and Sutta Nipata (by way of Ghost in the Shell: Innocence)
— Henry David Thoreau, Walden
He closed his eyes. Found the ridged face of the power stud. And in the bloodlit dark behind his eyes, silver phosphenes boiled in from the edge of space, hypnagogic images jerking past like a film compiled of random frames. Symbols, figures, faces, a blurred, fragmented mandala of visual information.
Please, he prayed, now- A gray disk, the color of Chiba sky. Now- Disk beginning to rotate, faster, becoming a sphere of paler gray. Expanding- And flowed, flowered for him, fluid neon origami trick, the unfolding of distanceless home, his country, transparent 3D chessboard extending to infinity…
And somewhere he was laughing, in a white-painted loft, distant fingers caressing the deck, tears of release streaking his face.
"— William Gibson, Neuromancer
Joy DeGruy in Cracking the Codes: Understanding the System (by WorldTrustTV)
Jorge Maia
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have...
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-Sam
