May 2012
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met a girl. really cute, really interesting, have a great time hanging out. swap numbersshe tells me she has to go out of town to see friends this weekend so we plan on going for a coffee this week. we text a bit, i add her on facebook. turns out she’s in a relationship: seems the ‘friend’ out of town is the boyfriend. d’oh!
“Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;
Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Meanings and reality were not hidden somewhere behind things, they were in them,...”
– Hermann Hess, Siddhartha (via nirvikalpa)
“If you have ever untangled a ball of string, you know that yanking and pulling...”
– (via tumblrgymyoga)
“In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for...”
– Buddha (via nirvikalpa)
“Many people still confuse ‘attachment’ with ‘love.’ Attachments are about fear...”
– Yasmin Mogahed (via mnopqrstuv)
“The way is not in the sky. The way is in the heart.”
– Buddha (via jessicaloveslove)
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“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via skeletales)
“Sometimes fate is like a small sandstorm that keeps changing directions. You...”
– Haruki Murakami (via airae)
“I used to dream about escaping my ordinary life, but my life was never ordinary....”
– Ransom Riggs (via kaseygirl)
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8-bit Radiohead
guardianmusic:
8-bit versions of indie songs are nothing new - YouTube is chock full of them - but it takes a hell of a lot of dedication to remake a whole album in old-school-videogame style.
But that’s what YouTube user QuintonSung has done twice here, with Radiohead’s OK Computer and Kid A
8 bit cover versions of the whole of OK Computer and Kid A!
I'm going to talk like Jaqen H'gar to strangers
vulcanmindmeldmojo:
Perhaps. Maybe.
A man doesn’t know.
A man cannot tell a girl when the next bus comes.
A girl needs to look on the schedule map.
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“Each kind of pain has its own characteristics. To rephrase Tolstoy’s...”
– Tamaru, 1Q84 - Haruki Murakami
“If you can love someone with your whole heart, even one person, then there’s...”
– 1Q84 Haruki Murakami (via helendauka)
“Nobody’s easier to fool, Ushikawa thought, than the person who is convinced that...”
– Haruki Murakami, 1Q84 (via guglielmomeis)
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love, and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski (via september-eyes)
“…I have this strange feeling that I’m not myself anymore. It’s hard to put into...”
– Haruki Murakami (via thatkindofwoman) yeah. (via surtsey)
a place for things: Stop being a People Pleaser →
onlinecounsellingcollege:
Do you always give in, or let other people choose, or hide what you think, or never ask to have your way? Perhaps you fear disapproval or disappointing others, and the last thing you want is to make somebody mad. If this profile describes you then you may be a…
“The greatest worth is self-mastery.”
– Buddhist Quote.
(via kuji-in)
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A 16 year old kid just got stabbed outside the gym while I was working there. Looks like he’ll be alright but still kinda shocking. It looks like CSI London outside
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– — Nikos Kazantzakis (via iamburningupasun)
“The best fighter is never angry.”
– Lao Tzu (via dirkhanson)
babydoll1976:
Meditation is a practice that brings awareness to the present moment. It’s not a cure-all to all of our problems. There is no such thing.
“They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream...”
– (via maallanhead)
“I wear black on the outside because black is how I feel on the inside, and if I...”
– The Smiths (via dirtcrumbgoddess)
“Before you know kindness as the deepest thing inside, You must know sorrow as...”
– Naomi Shihab Nye (via heartmindawakening)
“Because in that moment of vulnerability, real love is shown.”
– Kelsey Chavarria (via abbiecdefg)