All Things Shining

Thomas Thinks and Finds Things Interesting

[crimesagainsthughsmanatees]

[tomleng-blog]

"To know one's own state is not a simple matter. One cannot look directly at one's own face with one's own eyes, for example. One has no choice but to look at one's reflection in the mirror. Through experience, we come to believe that the image is correct but that is all." 

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle, pg 282  

- Haruki Murakami

[theunquotables]

I felt like I was sort of disappearing. It was that kind of a crazy afternoon, terrifically cold, and no sun out or anything, and you felt like you were disappearing everytime you crossed a road.

J.D. Salinger, Catcher in the Rye (via theunquotables)

[secondcontact]

[aubreylstallard]

Chris Day, 2014

[tomleng-blog]

"The human being is in the most literal sense a political animal, not merely a gregarious animal, but an animal which can individuate itself only in the midst of society."

- Marx

[likeafieldmouse-deactivated2015]

Life is a garden, not a road. We enter and exit through the same gate. Wandering, where we go matters less than what we notice.

Kurt Vonnegut (via likeafieldmouse)

[crimesagainsthughsmanatees]

[perksofbeingdisabled]

Vintage on disability rights.

[littleredspaces]

Don’t let the black and white trick you. The Capitol Crawl was in 1990. This is not ancient history.

[thinksquad-deactivated20190405]

[rollership]

Dystopia is creeping up on us at an alarming rate.

[verys-pinksky]

what in the flying fuck is this

[tomleng-blog]

What the hell? 

[tomleng-blog]

"In what, then, do we recognize the radical lover? In the fact that he almost never dares to declare, "I love you!"

- Jean Luc Marion, The Erotic Phenomenon, 93

[tomleng-blog]

"this is how belief functions: we make fun of our beliefs while continuing to practice."

Zizek

[nevver]

Rick and Morty (cont.)

[tomleng-blog]

lol

[tomleng-blog]

"God gives us many gifts, but God is He Who gives Good"

- St. Augustine

[nevver]

Animal House

[tomleng-blog]

tha gwan be mah house sumday

[tomleng-blog]

We're happy, free, confused, and lonely in the best way It's miserable and magical.

- T-SWIFT

[tomleng-blog]

Of course it's a sacrifice. Why wouldn't it be? Doesn't every gift involve a sacrifice? Otherwise what sort of a gift would it be?

The Sacrifice - Andrie Tarkovsky

[tomleng-blog]

Miniature Star Wars Adventures by Zahir Batin