"Think you’re escaping and run into yourself

Hi, I'm Amanda. 26. BA in English. Writing and literature, travel, veganism, politics, and more. 

[freelance-philosopher]

A single gentle rain makes the grass many shades greener. So our prospects brighten on the influx of better thoughts. We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us.

Henry David Thoreau, Walden, or Life in the Woods (via freelance-philosopher)

[art-mysecondname]

John Singer Sargent - Firenze, Giardino di Boboli

[mytearsrricochet]

sometimes harvest mice sleep in tulips. here are some that will make you happy

thanks. Have a great day

[amandamae91]

Made a pilgrimage to the Beat Museum in San Francisco! Wearing my Beat writers shirt too. @thebeatmuseum #beats #kerouac #ginsberg #westcoast #literature #poetry #museum #sightseeing #beatmuseum #ontheroad #jackkerouac #author #writer (at The Beat Museum)

[nocountryforoldjetpacks]

[artsnquotes]

Art is the lie that enables us to realize the truth.

Pablo Picasso (via wnq-art)

[wickedclothes]

[wickedclothes]

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[song-and-dance-man]

Bob Dylan and John Lennon in a cab, 1966

[amandamae91]

My medal! 13.1 miles of cold, wind, and rain, but it was still fun- glad to be in Vegas! #rnrvegas #stripatnight #running (at Las Vegas, Nevada)

[amandamae91]

A few days ago at Miami Beach. #travel #miami #miamibeach #roadtrip #wanderlust #ocean #beach (at Miami Beach ッ)

[extramadness]

More inspiring quotes here

[slawpoke]

One of the reasons of why Chris Treager is one of my favorite characters of parks and recreation

[amandamae91]

My dad and I got a plant with some pretty flower blooming on it the other day. #flowers #plants #garden

[daredevil-daily]

Me and you, pal. We’re gonna have big, fancy offices one day, with steel and glass and chairs you don’t even know how to sit in.

[rebeatmag]

Love & Mercy, the new Brian Wilson biopic starring Paul Dano, John Cusack, Elizabeth Banks, and Paul Giamatti, is in theaters today. Here’s our review.

[passport-life]

There’s an old tale about 2 Christian monks with the acute desire to see the world. Because they’d taken vows of contemplation this was not something they were allowed to do. So, to satiate their wanderlust, they learned to “mock their temptations” by relegating their travels to the future. When the summer came, they said to each other “we will leave in the winter”. When the winter came, they said “we will leave in the summer”. And they went on like this for over 50 years, never leaving the monastery or breaking their vows. Most people have never taken such vows but we choose to live like monks anyway, rooting ourselves to a home or career and using the future as a phony ritual that justifies the present. We’d love to drop everything and explore the world but the time never seems right, we tell ourselves. And so, given an unlimited amount of choices, we make none. We settle into our lives and all that is mundane and forget what we desired in the first place"

“Vagabonding” by Rolf Potts (via passport-life)

[daredevil-daily]

Me and you, pal. We’re gonna have big, fancy offices one day, with steel and glass and chairs you don’t even know how to sit in.