Drifting Towards Something Poetic

“Men of peace are often brave.” Spock from Star Trek

“The carnival has ended. Let’s set the tigers free.” Villagers-Set The Tigers Free

“But I am no poet. I am only a very conscious recorder.” Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita

“I have a new love for that glittering instrument, the human soul. It is a lovely and unique thing in the universe. It is always attacked and never destroyed” John Steinbeck (via jordanvirden)

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“Life starts all over again when it gets crisp in the fall.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby  (via bearnaked)

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“What I must do is all that concerns me, not what people think. This rule, equally arduous in actual and intellectual life, may serve for the whole distinction between greatness and meanness. It is the harder, because you will always find those who think they know what is your duty better than you know it. It is easy in the world to live after the world’s opinion; it is easy in solitude to live after our own; but the great man is he who in the midst of the crowd keeps with perfect sweetness the independence of solitude.” Ralph Waldo Emerson (via bearnaked)

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“We are all human. God created us from one dirt. Why can we not marry each other, or love each other?” HALIMA MOHAMMEDI, an Afghan teenager whose love for another teenager, Rafi Mohammed, set off a riot by flouting their village’s tradition of arranged marriages.

“I love this world,” he added. “That is what rules my life. When I die, I want to have done all in my power to leave it in a better state than it was when I found it. At the same time I know that this can never be. The world has grown so complex that one voice can do little to alter it any longer. That doesn’t stop me from doing what I can, but it makes the task hard. The successes are so small, the failures so large and many. It’s like trying to stem a storm with one’s bare hands.”

Charles de Lint, The Little Country (via rainier)

-Truth.

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