Soul Inspiration

“If you're reading this... Congratulations, you're alive. If that's not something to smile about, then I don't know what is.” - Chad Sugg

[the-healing-nest]

An entire sea of water can’t sink a ship unless it gets inside the ship. Similarly, the negativity of the world can’t put you down unless you allow it to get inside you.

Goi Nasu  (via pyur)

[larmoyante]

Wake up. This is your life, for God sakes. It’s time to face up to it. You can’t get anywhere, can’t get over anything, if you don’t let yourself feel anything in the first place. It’s time.

 Julie Buxbaum, The Opposite of Love (via perfect)

[inspiresoul]

We are going to die, and that makes us the lucky ones. Most people are never going to die because they are never going to be born.

[inspiresoul]

For someone, somewhere in the world, today is the most amazing day of their life.

[pandavalkyrie]

You are good at something, stop lying to yourself. You’re good at breaking down comic book plots, cooking ramen perfectly, making your friends happy, knowing the time without looking at a clock, getting the perfect ending at RPG’s, or figuring out the twist ending to movies. Don’t let society tell you your talents are meaningless because they don’t serve an economical purpose. Your talents reflect your interests and passions, and what’s important to you is important.

[trulyquotable]

Never waste your time trying to explain who you are to people who are committed to misunderstanding you.

Dream Hampton (via loveyourchaos)

(via exploreandiscover)

[inspiresoul]

"If you ever start to take your life seriously, just stand out and go outside and just look up at space and just really wrap your head around it. I mean, everybody looks up and goes “Oh, there’s the stars… the stars are bright tonight.” But very few people actually look up And go “wow, that literally is infinity…” We’re floating in infinity. And it’s the majority of what I see, all around the top, it’s easier to see infinity than it is to see the ground! I have more view of the infinity and it’s amazing how rarely that comes up because no one talks about it. It’s too much, so we just sort of accept that we live in space and just accept …"

- Joe Rogan & Duncan Trussell: Floating in Infinity 

[finebyyou-deactivated20120219]

Realize that anyone who tries to put you down about your appearance is assuming that it is your job to please them visually. Once you realize that it isn’t your job to be visually pleasing to anyone, ever, it becomes very hard for anyone to make you feel bad about yourself.

Skeptifem

[inspiresoul]

Caine's Arcade

9-year-old Caine Monroy spent his summer vacation building an elaborate DIY cardboard arcade inside his dad’s used auto parts store, and invited people to play. The entire summer went by, and Caine had yet to have a single customer, until one day, a filmmaker named Nirvan stopped to buy a door handle. What happened next inspired this movie, posted April 9th, 2012 – five days later, the movie launched a movement.

[inspiresoul]

Shane Koyczan: "To This Day"

“I’m not the only kid who grew up this way surrounded by people who used to say that rhyme about sticks and stones as if broken bones hurt more than the names we got called and we got called them all so we grew up believing no one would ever fall in love with us that we’d be lonely forever that we’d never meet someone to make us feel like the sun was something they built for us in their tool shed so broken heart strings bled the blues as we tried to empty ourselves so we would feel nothing don’t tell me that hurts less than a broken bone."

This is one of the most beautiful spoken-word videos I have seen.

[inspiresoul]

Address Is Approximate

Google Street View stop motion animation short made as a personal project by director Tom Jenkins.

Story: A lonely desk toy longs for escape from the dark confines of the office, so he takes a cross country road trip to the Pacific Coast in the only way he can – using a toy car and Google Maps Street View.

[inspiresoul]

PostSecret: Confessions on Life, Death and God

You may find the brave voices captured in this short film haunting, shocking and humorous. In some of their faces you'll see joy, anguish and grace as they trust you with their confession.

Walking the streets asking strangers what their secrets are is the summary of this video. Beautiful

[dellbby]

[inspiresoul]

Playing music with vegetables

J.viewz playing teardrop with vegetables. Pretty darn amazing.

[inspiresoul]

Money was no object | Alan Watts

"If you say getting money is the most important thing you will spend your life completely wasting your time. You will be doing things you don't like doing in order to go on living to go on with things you don't like doing, which is stupid (...) It's better to have a short life that is filled with what you like doing, than a long life spending it in a miserable way."

[inspiresoul]

Landfill Harmonic

"The World sends us garbage. We send back Music"

"People realise that shouldn't throw away trash carelessly. Well, we shouldn't throw away people either."

In Cateura, Paraguay, a slum built on a landfill. People of the recycled orchestra create recycled musical instruments from the garbage.

[inspiresoul]

Sarah Kay | If I should have a daughter...

“Life will hit you hard in the face, wait for you to get back up just so it can kick you in the stomach. But getting the wind knocked out of you is the only way to remind your lungs how much they like the taste of air.”