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Life is a process of becoming; a combination of states we have to go through. Where people fail is that they wish to elect a state and remain in it. This is a kind of death.
Anaïs Nin(via fuckyeahexistentialism)
Posted on December 18, 2012 via Randomania. with 1,118 notes
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The thought of sitting in front of a man behind a desk and telling him that I wanted a job, that I was qualified for a job, was too much for me. Frankly, I was horrified by life, at what a man had to do simply in order to eat, sleep, and keep himself clothed.
Factotum - Charles Bukowski(via luzdebosque)
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When I was 17, I read a quote that went something like: “If you live each day as if it was your last, someday you’ll most certainly be right.” It made an impression on me, and since then, for the past 33 years, I have looked in the mirror every morning and asked myself: “If today were the last day of my life, would I want to do what I am about to do today?” And whenever the answer has been “No” for too many days in a row, I know I need to change something.
Remembering that I’ll be dead soon is the most important tool I’ve ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything – all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart.
No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new. Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away. Sorry to be so dramatic, but it is quite true.
Your time is limited, so don’t waste it living someone else’s life. Don’t be trapped by dogma - which is living with the results of other people’s thinking. Don’t let the noise of other’s opinions drown out your own inner voice. And most important, have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. They somehow already know what you truly want to become. Everything else is secondary.Steve Jobs, Stanford Commencement Address, 2005 -
Life is a gamble, at terrible odds — if it was a bet you wouldn’t take it.
Tom Stoppard, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are DeadPosted on October 5, 2011 via (OvO) with 303 notes
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Sing like no one’s listening, love like you’ve never been hurt, dance like nobody’s watching, and live like it’s heaven on earth.
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There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness of living.
Jack London, The Call of the Wild(via ratak-monodosico)
Posted on August 13, 2011 via Book Mania! with 326 notes
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ([1913])
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Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám ([1913])
Author: Omar Khayyam; FitzGerald, Edward, 1809-1883; Bull, René, d. 1942
Publisher: [London] : Hodder and StoughtonPosted on July 15, 2011 via COULEURS with 37 notes
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Posted on July 13, 2011 via ❂ with 57 notes
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Phil Kirkland, illustration for Developmental Psychology Today (1971)
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Trees are sanctuaries. Whoever knows how to speak to them, who ever knows how to listen to them, can learn the truth. They do not preach learning and precepts, they preach, undeterred by particulars, the ancient law of life.
Hermann Hesse(via luzdebosque)
Posted on July 8, 2011 via seastruck with 41 notes
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I’ll tell you a secret. Something they don’t teach you in your temple. The Gods envy us. They envy us because we’re mortal, because any moment might be our last. Everything is more beautiful because we’re doomed. You will never be lovelier than you are now. We will never be here again.
Achilles(via deitiesanddemons)
Posted on July 6, 2011 via Δ The Dark Universe Δ with 21 notes
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I am but a ghost to you. Here is my aestheticon.
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