Passion, Fascination & Happiness

[wordsnquotes]

You become what you think about all day long.

Ralph Waldo Emerson (via wordsnquotes)

[dazeylo]

You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.

Albert Camus, Notebooks  (via soulsscrawl)

[ghost--electricity]

“The world says: “You have needs — satisfy them. You have as much right as the rich and the mighty. Don’t hesitate to satisfy your needs; indeed, expand your needs and demand more.” This is the worldly doctrine of today. And they believe that this is freedom. The result for the rich is isolation and suicide, for the poor, envy and murder.”

Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Brothers Karamazov  (via kurtlac)

[intellectualpoaching]

One must not cut oneself off from the world. No one who lives in the sunlight makes a failure of his life. My whole effort, whatever the situation, misfortune or disillusion, must be to make contact again. But even within this sadness I feel a great leap of joy and great desire to love simply at the sight of a hill against the evening sky.

Albert Camus, Notebooks (via intellectual-poaching)

[sexedplus]

I think there are some really important discussions to have about why disclosing aspects of personal identity can be challenging but important for all kinds of people, why the concept of “coming out” has appealed at times to a wide variety of groups (including people who are poly, sex workers, people with HIV, atheists, and people with mental illness), and why other groups using that language can be harmful to people in the LGBT and queer communities. But it’s going to take me some time to really be able to address all that.

In the meantime, I also think it’s worthwhile to focus specifically on the coming out experiences of people who are LGBTQIA. Of course, these experiences can vary a lot too. There are some differences between coming out about sexual orientation and coming out about gender identity, for example. And even two people who identify the same way may face pretty different challenges in their individual lives. I do believe, however, that there is a certain commonality shared specifically by these groups.

[worldsingers]

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[benedictsmith]

The fraudulence paradox was that the more time and effort you put into trying to appear impressive or attractive to other people, the less impressive or attractive you felt inside — you were a fraud. And the more of a fraud you felt like, the harder you tried to convey an impressive or likeable image of yourself so that other people wouldn’t find out what a hollow, fraudulent person you really were. Logically, you would think that the moment a supposedly intelligent nineteen-year-old became aware of this paradox, he’d stop being a fraud and just settle for being himself (whatever that was) because he’d figured out that being a fraud was a vicious infinite regress that ultimately resulted in being frightened, lonely, alienated, etc. But here was the other, higher-order paradox, which didn’t even have a form or name — I didn’t, I couldn’t.

David Foster Wallace, Good Old Neon (via benedictsmith)

[pafaha]

Aristotle: We are what we repeatedly do.

Plato: Well then I guess I'm YOUR MOM

Plato: *high fives Socrates*

[kteacrumpet]

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[fat-birds]

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[ph4ntasmag0ria]

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[witherflowers]

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[wordsnquotes]

Fiction is one of the few experiences where loneliness can be both confronted and relieved. Drugs, movies where stuff blows up, loud parties — all these chase away loneliness by making me forget…I live in a one-by-one box of bone no other party can penetrate or know. Fiction, poetry, music, really deep serious sex, and, in various ways, religion — these are the places (for me) where loneliness is countenanced, stared down, transfigured, treated.

David Foster Wallace (via wordsnquotes)

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[hiadammarshall]

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[mstrkrftz]

thankful by after october

[minima--moralia]

I have a longing for life, and I go on living in spite of logic. Though I may not believe in the order of the universe, yet I love the sticky little leaves as they open in spring. I love the blue sky, I love some people, whom one loves you know sometimes without knowing why.

Fyodor Dostoevsky, in The Brothers Karamazov (via letters-to-lolita)

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[mydarkenedeyes]

Lissa Bockrath