a little mental refuge

Caro | 18| pretentious

[friedacaro]

Yuval Noah Harari - "Homo Deus - A brief History of Tomorrow"

[alexandratheterrible]

Regardless of what barriers confront you, it is in your power to free yourselves; you have only to want to.

Olympe de Gouges (via alexandratheterrible)

[friedacaro]

What if I say I’m not just another one of your plays You’re the pretender What if I say I will never surrender

Foo Fighters

[friedacaro]

Betray a friend, and you'll often find you have ruined yourself.

A.

[friedacaro]

"A free soul will never, even through betray of false boisterousness, give in to puzzled delusion..." Proklamation der Freiheit - page 18 - Janko Musulin

[friedacaro]

Im not in this world to live up to your expectations and youre not in this world to live up to mine.

Bruce Lee

[friedacaro]

Love is the power to see similarity in the dissimilar.

Theodor Adorno

[friedacaro]

Ich lasse mir die Welt nicht bieten

Ilse Aichinger

[hedonist--poet-deactivated20240]

Melancholy is dangerous. It’s addicting. Once you find a way to cope with your darkness, you don’t even wanna deal with a drop of light again.

(via karma-de-unicorni)

[wallpapermag]

[friedacaro]

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist.

George Carlin

[friedacaro]

To secure ourselves against defeat lies in our own hands, but the opportunity of defeating the enemy is provided by the enemy himself.

Sun Tzu

[friedacaro]

We were the people who were not in the papers. We lived in the blank white spaces at the edges of print. It gave us more freedom. We lived in the gaps between the stories.

Margaret Atwood (The Handmaid's Tale)

[friedacaro]

As the liquor flowed, stories tumbled out one after another.

Ann Aguirre (Razorland / Horde)

[friedacaro]

Well I’ve had a very bad time…and I’m pretty cynical about everything.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Great Gatsby

[friedacaro]

They were careless people, Tom and Daisy- they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back into their money or their vast carelessness or whatever it was that kept them together, and let other people clean up the mess they had made.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

[friedacaro]

There can be no understanding between the hand and the brain unless the heart acts as mediator.

Metropolis

(In a futuristic city sharply divided between the working class and the city planners, the son of the city’s mastermind falls in love with a working class prophet who predicts the coming of a savior to mediate their differences.)      

Director: Fritz Lang                Writer:Thea von Harbou