#human-ness

[sami-olive]

I get rather irked when people, regardless of whether they support him or not, forget that Barack Obama and people like him are, in fact, human. Yes, the president has played golf and made a humorous video for BuzzFeed, but how does this justify your calling him lazy? Any president would die of exhaustion if he/she were not allowed leisure.

[theotheranna]

Why can't I just stop being attracted to people. It just leads to problems. 

Seriously Anna, just stop.

You are not being fair to yourself right now. 

[allusionism-blog]

at such times i felt something was drawing me away, and i kept fancying that if i walked straight on, far, far away and reached that line where the sky and earth meet, there i should find the key to the mystery, there i should see a new life a thousand times richer and more turbulent than ours.

FYODOR DOSTOYEVSKY 

[allusionism-blog]

memory is a poet, not an historian.

MARIE HOWE

[allusionism-blog]

the world is this thing around me that i made for myself and i see for myself. the world will, however, go on without me being there to see it, it just won't be 'my' world then. that is what interests me most about the situation i am in now. i am making things in the world that won't go away when i do.

KEITH HARING 

[allusionism-blog]

our intention is to affirm this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we’re living, which is so excellent once one gets one’s mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord.

JOHN CAGE

[allusionism-blog]

“they say that every snowflake is different. if that were true, how could the world go on? how could we ever get up off our knees? how could we ever recover from the wonder of it?

JEANETTE WINTERSON

[allusionism-blog]

all the lives i could live, all the people i will never know, never will be, they are everywhere. that is all that the world is.

ALEKSANDAR HEMON