December 2010
23 posts
“Most people fail at whatever they attempt because of an undecided heart. Should...”
– Andy Andrews
“I believe the nicest and sweetest days are not those on which anything very...”
– L. M. Montgomery
“Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the...”
– Susan Sontag
“Annabelle has secrets she will never tell...
“If you are lonely when you are alone, you are in bad company.”
– Jean-Paul Sartre
Absurdism →
“The conflict between the human tendency to seek inherent meaning in life and the human inability to find any.
Absurdism, therefore, is a philosophical school of thought stating that the efforts of humanity to find inherent meaning will ultimately fail (and hence are absurd), because no such meaning exists, at least in relation to the individual.”
“What counts now is not just what we are against, but what we are for. Who leads...”
– Adlai Stevenson
“And once you live a good story, you get a taste for a kind of meaning in life,...”
– A Million Miles in a Thousand Years, Donald Miller
“I should tell you, I’m disaster. I forget how to begin it.”
Backwards
Goodbye , you’re leaving me Walking backwards along the escalator I can hear your heels slipping But you’re gaining control Losing ground to our old role As couple of the century Just you and me Let’s see what we can do when we’re alone Maybe life has split-ends, too Maybe you’re as quiet in the crowd as I am Maybe you’re just like me..apart from your own mind
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“And the boys were all clean, their faces freshly and brutally shaved, their hair...”
– Peter Cameron, Someday This Pain Will Be Useful To You
“Perhaps it is true that we do not really exist until there is someone there to...”
– Alain de Botton, On Love
“It’s the night, I can be who you...
10 Things
I know these are somewhat annoying. But I’m bored and procrastinating and in a writing mood with little inspiration. Although, I don’t like how much these lists tend to simplify the responses
10 Things You Wanted/Want To Be When You’re Older Wanted to be: Parapsychologist, Astronomer, Paleontologist, Vet, Writer, Historian, Advice Columnist Want to be: Happy, In love, Satisfied
9...
November 2010
37 posts
“I don’t exactly know what I mean by that, but I mean it.”
– The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger