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When the world quiets to the sound of your own breathing, we all want the...
I used to think I knew everything. I was a “smart person” who “got things done,” and because of that, the higher I climbed, the more I could look down and scoff at what seemed silly or simple, even...
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As though it said to man, “Behold my work. And yours.”
“Nature is pitiless; she never withdraws her flowers, her music, her fragrance and her sunlight, from before human cruelty or suffering. She overwhelms man by the contrast between divine beauty and...
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Same?
This is a portrait of Katie Parks and Sarah Parks, identical Twins born in 2001. The photo was taken by Martin Schoeller. “Long a source of fascination, twins have often been a theme of myth and...
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In his house slippers dancing alone in his bedroom, humming step over step
“In his youth, he worked in a factory, though everyone said he looked more like a professor of classical languages than a factory worker. He walked to work as if moving under water. He was a beautiful...
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I have led too serious a life
I have led too serious a life; but that perhaps, after all, preserves one’s youth. At all events, I have travelled too far, I have worked too hard, I have lived in brutal climates and associated with...
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Better to be dusty than polished
We get a little further from perfection,each year on the road,I guess that’s what they call character,I guess that’s just the way it goes,better to be dusty than polished,like some store window...
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Now you are here, at 7:43. Now you are here, at 7:44. Now you are…
Synecdoche, New York (2008) [over radio] Millicent Weems: What was once before you – an exciting, mysterious future – is now behind you. Lived; understood; disappointing. You realize you are not...
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They are stronger than I am. They are me.
Age is truly a time of heroic helplessness. One is confronted by one’s own incorrigibility. I am always saying to myself, “Look at you, and after a lifetime of trying.” I still have the vices that I...
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Do I or Do I Not Want To Do? (How to Decide)?
Luhrmann doesn’t want to give in to the pressure to repeat himself. During the making of “Gatsby,” he said, he felt challenged and alive, “not panicked that somehow the universe was leaving me...
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To come so far, to taste so good
Often a sweetness comes as if on loan, stays just long enough to make sense of what it means to be alive, then returns to its dark source. As for me, I don’t care where it’s been, or what bitter road...
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Every day, start again.
Credits: “Every day, start again.” – Edward Docx, from Pravda via Journal of a Nobody. Illustration Credit.
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Every think of that?
Most of the pain you’re dealing with are really just thoughts.. ever think of that? - Buddhist Bootcamp Credits: Image – Journal of a Nobody. Quote: Thank you Karen @ Karen’s Korner
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Guess.What.Day.It.Is?
Where’s Caleb on Hump Day? Merzouga, Morocco. Here he’s posing with his friend before a long walk in the desert… Source: Russell Bevan
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I hear the wind blow
I hear the wind blow, And I feel that it was worth being born just to hear the wind blow. ~ Fernando Pessoa Poem Source: The Ugly Earring. Image Source: Marc Vasseur Photography via Journal of a Nobody
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The watcher and the watched
An intellectual? Yes. And never deny it. An intellectual is someone whose mind watches itself. I like this, because I am happy to be both halves, the watcher and the watched. ‘Can they be brought...
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Till My Teeth Rattle
There’s no remedy, I suppose — this body just made from the beginning to be shocked, constantly surprised, perpetually stunned, poked and prodded, shaken awake, shaken again and again roughly, rudely,...
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Crippled by procrastination…panic, self-loathing and soul-crushing inadequacy
“The mind of a writer can be a truly terrifying thing. Isolated, neurotic, caffeine addled, crippled by procrastination, consumed by feelings of panic, self-loathing and soul-crushing inadequacy… and...
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You are meant to fight
“You are meant to fight. When you are sick, your body fights for its right to function. When you hold your breath, your body fights for its right to breathe. There are billions of tiny events—from the...
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