January 2011
December 2010
“Friendship is unnecessary, like philosophy, like art, like the universe itself...”
– C.S. Lewis (via libraryland)
Monsanto’s Neotame molecule allowed in USDA... →
lickystickypickyme: Seems like we’re far, very far from: Let your food be medicine and your medicine be food. ~ Hippocrates.
“My New Year’s Eve Toast: to all the devils, lusts, passions, greeds, envies,...”
– Patricia Highsmith, New Year’s Eve, 1947 (via: buffleheadcabin & mlq3)
“Music has always been a matter of Energy to me, a question of Fuel. Sentimental people call it Inspiration, but what they really mean is Fuel. I have always needed Fuel. I am a serious consumer. On some nights I still believe that a car with the gas needle on empty can run about fifty more miles if you have the right music very loud on the radio.”
—Hunter S. Thompson. (via: airwalker &...
Grace strikes us when we are in great pain and restlessness. It strikes us when we walk through the dark valley of a meaningless and empty life. It strikes us when we feel that our separation is deeper than usual, because we have violated another life, a life which we loved, or from which we were estranged. It strikes us when our disgust for our own being, our indifference, our weakness, our...
“The telling of beautiful untrue things is the proper aim of Art.”
– Oscar Wilde
'The outside of a horse is good for the inside of...
Just like the men training them, these horses used to be free. The animals were free to roam the land in the West, and the men were free to come and go as they please. Now they are both captive at the Northern Nevada Correctional Center.
If it weren’t for the matching prison blue that the inmates wear, you could mistake this for any working ranch. The prison has a program that uses...
“Soon silence will have passed into legend. Man has turned his back on silence....”
– Jean Arp (via arsvitaest)
“A human being is a part of the whole called by us universe, a part limited in...”
– Albert Einstein, Letter of 1950, as quoted in The New York Times (29 March 1972) and The New York Post (28 November 1972). (via amiquote)
“The world is a thing of utter inordinate complexity and richness and strangeness...”
– Douglas Adams, answering Richard Dawkins’ question ‘What is it about science that really gets your blood running?’ cited in Richard Dawkins: Eulogy for Douglas Adams, Church of Saint Martin in the Fields, London, 17th September 2001 (via amiquote)
“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love...”
– Charles Bukowski (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“Look, I don’t want to wax philosophic, but I will say that if you’re...”
– Mel Brooks
“It was better, I decided, for the emissaries returning from the...”
– Loren Eiseley, The Immense Journey
“It is the function of art to renew our perception. What we are familiar with we...”
– Anais Nin. (via libraryland)
“A little foolishness, enough to enjoy life, and a little wisdom to avoid the...”
– Osho (via birdiegulux)
“Don’t go around saying the world owes you a living. The world owes you...”
– Mark Twain
“Watch your thoughts; they become words. Watch your words; they become actions....”
– Upanishads (via shrooming)
How I gave up Christmas and saved my sanity
Personal note: This strikes me as actually quite sensible and sentimental. Definitely worth a read.
I can’t remember exactly when it was that I gave up Christmas, but I’ve never regretted it. While my friends and family run around in a frenzy of mall purchases and the attendant anxiety of how to pay for it all, I bask in the serenity of having let it all go — well, most of it.
It seemed to...
“So writing could be seen as ‘writing your mind’…all you have to do to tap into...”
– Allen Ginsberg (via thesoggycoo)
“The death of dogma is the birth of morality.”
– Immanuel Kant (via schmudde)
