[gahdamnpunk]

“I guess one of the cops thought I was the shooter.”

He saved the children at the risk of being racially profiled and mistaken for the shooter by the police all while the actual shooter was taken in ALIVE

#GlenOakleyIsAHero

[joannalannister]

“Lee’s best stories are about flawed people changing into versions of themselves who can do good, while remembering the bad they’ve done in the past. We sometimes fail others and often fail ourselves, but these stories remind us that, with effort, we can become something better.”

— Dan Schkade on twitter, discussing Stan Lee

[galina]

“Occasionally, however, a woman writer is told gravely, “You write like a man.” Since this is the highest accolade, presented as a judgment from above and closed to any further discussion, it would be impolite to ask, “Which man? Any man? You?””

— Joyce Carol Oates, Why Is Your Writing So Violent? 

[scholasticbabe]

“Read books. Care about things. Get excited. Try not to be too down on youself. Enjoy the ever present game of knowing.”

— hank Green ( via @scholasticbabe )

[spiritualgateway]

“When you are happy, the people around you are happy, too, and it inspires them to change their own world.”

—

Miguel Angel Ruiz

[thebookongoodbye]

“One day I will tell you how I knew on the first day but today I will smile and tell you how lovely you are”

— m. a.

[purplebuddhaproject]

[thedeathincarnate]

I swear he is made of sunsets and rainy afternoons and everything good.

how did I end up so blessed//e.g. (via thedeathincarnate)

[moodboard-maverick]

[ithelpstodream]

[communicants]

Mahmoud Darwish, In the Presence of Absence

[thebuddhistmind]

“Your love reveals your beauty.”

— Rumi

[wordsthat-speak]

“But I guess ultimately what scares me about marriage is where do you find this person? You know a lot of times, most successful relationships, people meet through work, school, mutual friends. But what’s most interesting to me is when people just meet in life, just randomly. You know, I have a friend, he got married, I asked him like “Hey, uh, where’d you meet your wife?” He was like “I was leaving Bed, Bath & Beyond. I was looking for my car - I drive a gray Prius. I saw a different gray Prius, I thought it was mine, I walked up to it, I realized I had the wrong car, but I bumped into Carol, we started talking, that was that”. That’s unbelievable. Think about all the random factors that had to come together to make this one moment possible - this one moment that changed these two people’s entire lives: First off, this guy has to live in this particular town. Then he has to get a gray Prius. Then he has to need to go to Bed, Bath & Beyond. Then he has to go to that particular Bed, Bath & Beyond. Then there has to be another guy who also lives in town, also drives a gray Prius, also needs to go to Bed, Bath & Beyond, also goes to that particular Bed, Bath & Beyond at around the same time. Then they have to both park somewhat near each other, my friend has to leave before the other guy leaves, see the wrong Prius, think it’s his, walk up to it. Then the woman, Carol, needs to be near the wrong gray Prius for a million other random reasons. They bump into each other, they start talking, their entire lives are changed. That’s the most amazing and terrifying thing about life. It is, cause the amazing thing is that at any moment, any one of us can have that moment that totally changes our lives. You could be leaving the show tonight, bump into someone… it could change your life. You don’t know, that could happen. The terrifying thing is… what if we’re all supposed to be at Bed Bath & Beyond right now?””

— Aziz Ansari

[macrolit]

“If only there could be an invention that bottled up a memory, like a scent. And it never faded, and it never got stale.”

— Rebecca, Daphne du Maurier

[queeensusan]

“The rule for all of us is perfectly simple. Do not waste time bothering whether you ‘love’ your neighbour; act as if you did. As soon as we do this we find one of the great secrets. When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less. There is, indeed, one exception. If you do him a good turn, not to please God and obey the law of charity, but to show him what a fine forgiving chap you are, and to put him in your debt, and then sit down to wait for his ‘gratitude’, you will probably be disappointed. (People are not fools: they have a very quick eye for anything like showing off, or patronage.) But whenever we do good to another self, just because it is a self, made (like us) by God, and desiring its own happiness as we desire ours, we shall have learned to love it a little more or, at least, to dislike it less.”

— C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

[qiao07]

Beautifully put into words

[deeplifequotes]

Someone who wants the best for you is what’s best for you.

(via deeplifequotes)

[ithelpstodream]

It all proceeds from the same deep logic. It’s the same logic that sold lives for profit in the Atlantic slave trade, it’s the logic that gives us sweatshops and oil spills, and it’s the logic that is right now pushing us headlong toward ecological collapse and climate change.

Once we realize this, we can start connecting the dots between our different struggles. There are people in the U.S. fighting against the Keystone pipeline. There are people in Britain fighting against the privatization of the National Health Service. There are people in India fighting against corporate land grabs. There are people in Brazil fighting against the destruction of the Amazon rainforest. There are people in China fighting against poverty wages. These are all noble and important movements in their own right. But by focusing on all these symptoms we risk missing the underlying cause. And the cause is capitalism. It’s time to name the thing.

https://www.fastcompany.com/40439316/are-you-ready-to-consider-that-capitalism-is-the-real-problem