A Geek's Typewriter

Posting quotes from books I'm reading and reblogging shit. Oh, I also post nerd stuff.

[el3k0n]

[theliteraryjournals]

Sometimes we expect more from others because we would be willing to do that much for them.

Lois Lowry, The Giver (via theliteraryjournals)

[dailynietzsche]

“Psychology has falsified love as surrender and altruism, while it is an appropriation or a bestowal following from a super-abundance of personality. Only the most complete persons can love. The depersonalized and objective are the worst lovers. This also applies to love of God or the fatherland. One must be rooted in oneself.”

—F. Nietzsche, The Will to Power, §296 (edited excerpt).

[philosophyprofessorquotes]

Things don’t happen for a reason, people can just find meaning in anything.

Existentialism professor (via philosophyprofessorquotes)

[thequotejournals]

I love being horribly straightforward. I love sending reckless text messages (because how reckless can a form of digitized communication be?) and telling people I love them and telling people they are absolutely magical humans and I cannot believe they really exist. I love saying, Kiss me harder, and You’re a good person, and, You brighten my day. I live my life as straight-forward as possible. Because one day, I might get hit by a bus. Maybe it’s weird. Maybe it’s scary. Maybe it seems downright impossible to just be—to just let people know you want them, need them, feel like, in this very moment, you will die if you do not see them, hold them, touch them in some way whether its your feet on their thighs on the couch or your tongue in their mouth or your heart in their hands. But there is nothing more beautiful than being desperate. And there is nothing more risky than pretending not to care. We are young and we are human and we are beautiful and we are not as in control as we think we are. We never know who needs us back. We never know the magic that can arise between ourselves and other humans. We never know when the bus is coming.

Rachel C. Lewis, Tell The People You Love That You Love Them. (via thequotejournals)

[tiamoefingidinonsaperlo]

Ormai non so più il motivo del mio pianto,non trovo più un motivo per sorridere. Io mi odio, non volevo diventare così. Dio quanto mi odio.

Tiamoefingidinonsaperlo (via tiamoefingidinonsaperlo)

[tiamoefingidinonsaperlo]

Ho visto persone crollare e chiedere scusa perché lo stavano facendo.

Restosempre. ||Tiamoefingidinonsaperlo|| (via tiamoefingidinonsaperlo)

[victoriousvocabulary]

Perhaps the greatest faculty our minds possess is the ability to cope with pain. Classic thinking teaches us of the four doors of the mind, which everyone moves through according to their need. First is the door of sleep. Sleep offers us a retreat from the world and all its pain. Sleep marks passing time, giving us distance from the things that have hurt us. When a person is wounded they will often fall unconscious. Similarly, someone who hears traumatic news will often swoon or faint. This is the mind’s way of protecting itself from pain by stepping through the first door. Second is the door of forgetting. Some wounds are too deep to heal, or too deep to heal quickly. In addition, many memories are simply painful, and there is no healing to be done. The saying ‘time heals all wounds’ is false. Time heals most wounds. The rest are hidden behind this door. Third is the door of madness. There are times when the mind is dealt such a blow it hides itself in insanity. While this may not seem beneficial, it is. There are times when reality is nothing but pain, and to escape that pain the mind must leave reality behind. Last is the door of death. The final resort. Nothing can hurt us after we are dead, or so we have been told.

Patrick Rothfuss, The Name of the Wind (via victoriousvocabulary)

[wordsnquotes]

I need solitude. I need space. I need air. I need the empty fields round me; and my legs pounding along roads; and sleep; and animal existence.

Virginia Woolf, The Diary of Virginia Woolf (via wordsnquotes)

[philosophybits]

How could you want to become new without first becoming ashes?

Friedrich Nietzsche (via philosophybits)

[fyp-philosophy]

I’ve noticed something about people who make a difference in the world: They hold the unshakable conviction that individuals are extremely important, that every life matters. They get excited over one smile. They are willing to feed one stomach, educate one mind, and treat one wound. They aren’t determined to revolutionize the world all at once; they’re satisfied with small changes. Over time, though, the small changes add up. Sometimes they even transform cities and nations, and yes, the world.

Beth Clark (via fyp-philosophy)

[gameandwatch-deactivated2013043]

[d0nn0]

Penguin falls down resulting in best sound ever [x]

oh my god

NOOOOOOO

they all gasped like OHHH

IM CRYING IM PHYSICALLY CRYING HE FALLS AND THERE ALL LIKE WHAAAAWHOA U OK BRO AND HE GETS UP LIKE *SIGH* YEAH ITS FINE

[sunnysofa]

[teavibes]

This made me smile ago much omg

[reconditarmonia]

Voyager is so happy, because it’s the bravest satellite of all. It has gone the furthest. And it’s not lonely, because it’s talking to us. It phones home. And it tells us all about the wonderful things that it’s seeing. …There’s a whole universe to explore, and it’s just leaving our Solar System right now. It’s very brave and very lucky to be doing what it’s doing, so it’s not going to get lost. It’s traveled further than anything we’ve ever built has traveled before. It’s actually showing us the way. … It might have been safer for it to just stay home, and stay inside a building, but then it would have been sad forever, because it never would have done its purpose. It never would have discovered things. It’s all a wonderful story of great discovery and success, and it couldn’t have happened if Voyager hadn’t been brave… It’s not really the fact that everything always has a start and an end, it’s what happens in the middle that counts. What do you while you’re alive? What do you do while you’re laughing? And I think we’re doing exactly what makes Voyager joyful and as happy as it could be. Think about the fact that you’re a little bit like Voyager. In that you’re going to go see the world, and you’re going to call your mom on the phone and tell her about the wonderful things that you see. … You wouldn’t want to spend your whole life hiding under your bed and never seeing anything in your whole life, you want to be able to do what makes you happy and joyful and learn about things to discover. You might be the person that discovers something really important for everybody else on the world, but you can never discover that if you just hide and only do things that are safe. So think about yourself a little bit like Voyager. What makes you laugh? It’s not just staying, hiding underneath your bed safely at home.

Cmdr. Chris Hadfield, reassuring a five-year-old who was worried about the Voyager satellite (source)

oh no I’m having feelings about a satellite

tagging Doctor Who, because.

(via reconditarmonia)

[wordsnquotes]

Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (via wordsnquotes)

[wordsnquotes]

I felt once more how simple and frugal a thing is happiness: a glass of wine, a roast chestnut, a wretched little brazier, the sound of the sea. Nothing else.

Nikos Kazantzakis, Zorba the Greek (via wordsnquotes)

[christianb69]

What makes you happy?

Music. Diving in the middle of the ocean being away from everything(feels like awhole nother world). Good weed. My friends. Meeting new people from all walks of life randomly somewhere. Good girls with bad intentions lol. Good writing whither It be a book, a movie, a song. Pizzaaaa. The sun. People who dress well. Creativity. The first kiss of a night….the last kiss of a night. New places(discovering the world). Sarcastic old couples lol. The ocean. Puppies. Sports. A crazy good concert. Sitting on the beach in a hoodie listening to waves crash on the shore pondering about life at 12am alone. Random drives with the windows down & a dope playlist on. My family. Success. Loving someone.