riot on an empty street

"Enjoy everything that happens in your life but never make your happiness or success dependent on an attachment to any person, place or thing"

Wisdom from my High School English teacher.

it is only with the heart that one can see rightly - what is essential is invisible to the eye

"Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends."

Maya Angelou

"We read to know we are not alone."

C.S. Lewis

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“Now is the dramatic moment of fate, Watson, when you hear a step upon the stair which is walking into your life, and you know not whether for good or ill” 

-The Hound of the Baskervilles, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle 

(Source: davidswindow)

Ze Frank has always entertained/comforted/inspired me. I’m so glad he’s back with a regular video blog. I really needed this right now.

Let me not think of my work only as a stepping stone to something else, and if it is, let me become fascinated by the shape of the stone.

"What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."

Voltaire

"Our life anticipates us. Always ahead of you by a height, a desire, the good abyss, the one that suggests to you: “Leap and pass into infinity.” Write! What? Take to the wind, take to writing, form one body with the letters. Live! Risk: those who risk nothing gain nothing, risk and you no longer risk anything."

Helene Cixous

"To Live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all"

Oscar Wilde (via theparrotwhomeows)

(Source: praedam, via the-parrot-in-love-deactivated2)

liked and re-blogged for prosperity… I need to revisit this piece of advice every weekend…

(via thebluthcompany)

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"Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail."

Ralph Waldo Emerson

cameramind:

Louis C.K. on gay marriage

Love him.

(Source: cmykmind)