Peace of mind and heart arrives when we accept what is: having been born into this strange life we must accept the wasted gamble of our days and take some satisfaction in the pleasure of leaving it all behind.
— Charles Bukowski (via spinnaroundthecarousel)

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Find what you love and
let it kill you.
— Bukowski (via spinnaroundthecarousel)

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skyrimconfessions: I one used the mod “Lizards of Skyrim” to turn everyone into Argonians and pretended it was Pre-History earth. My inspiration was the Silurians in Doctor Who. http://skyrimconfessions.tumblr.com Image Credit: [x] View high resolution

skyrimconfessions:

I one used the mod “Lizards of Skyrim” to turn everyone into Argonians and pretended it was Pre-History earth. My inspiration was the Silurians in Doctor Who.

http://skyrimconfessions.tumblr.com

Image Credit: [x]

sexybritishllama:

are you ever just hit with the realisation that you could do anything right now

like you could just walk out the door and go to a restaurant or get a taxi to anywhere or cut off all of your hair or leave the country and go somewhere else or go adopt a cat and even though your life might seem monotonous and like we always have to do the same thing and we dont have a choice we do and really we could do just about anything but we just limit our own capabilities and tuck our heads in this tiny little box of possibilities when really we could do anyTHING if we really wanted too and its just

whoa

life

saisonlune: ~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921 View high resolution

saisonlune:

~ The Pleasures of Ignorance, by Robert Lynd, 1921

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Do I look like someone who has something to do here on earth?’ —That’s what I’d like to answer the busybodies who inquire into my activities.
— Emil Cioran, The Trouble With Being Born  (via loveage-moondream)
Let everything happen to you.
Beauty and terror.
Just keep going.
No feeling is final.
— Rainer Maria Rilke (via biscodeja-vu)

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A first sign of the beginning of understanding is the wish to die.
— Franz Kafka (via ryandonato)

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thedailywhat: Redditors Get A Lesson In Tolerance of the Day: Redditor european_douchebag recently posted this pic of a Sikh woman with the caption: “i’m not sure what to conclude from this.” Redditors promptly piled on to criticize her facial hair, which she is bound by her religion not to cut or alter in any way. Then the woman caught wind of the post and responded: Hey, guys. This is Balpreet Kaur, the girl from the picture. … I’m not embarrased or even humiliated by the attention [negative and positve] that this picture is getting because, it’s who I am. Yes, I’m a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body - it is a gift that has been given to us by the Divine Being [which is genderless, actually] and, must keep it intact as a submission to the divine will. Just as a child doesn’t reject the gift of his/her parents, Sikhs do not reject the body that has been given to us. … My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it? When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. … I appreciate all of the comments here, both positive and less positive because I’ve gotten a better understanding of myself and others from this.” Then, miracle of miracles, european_douchebag apologized: I know that this post ISN’T a funny post but I felt the need to apologize to the Sikhs, Balpreet, and anyone else I offended when I posted that picture. Put simply it was stupid. Making fun of people is funny to some but incredibly degrading to the people you’re making fun of. It was an incredibly rude, judgmental, and ignorant thing to post. … I’ve read more about the Sikh faith and it was actually really interesting. It makes a whole lot of sense to work on having a legacy and not worrying about what you look like. I made that post for stupid internet points and I was ignorant. So reddit I’m sorry for being an a**hole and for giving you negative publicity. Balpreet, I’m sorry for being a closed minded individual. You are a much better person than I am Sikhs, I’m sorry for insulting your culture and way of life. Balpreet’s faith in what she believes is astounding. Just… wow. View high resolution

thedailywhat:

Redditors Get A Lesson In Tolerance of the Day: Redditor european_douchebag recently posted this pic of a Sikh woman with the caption: “i’m not sure what to conclude from this.”

Redditors promptly piled on to criticize her facial hair, which she is bound by her religion not to cut or alter in any way.

Then the woman caught wind of the post and responded:

Hey, guys. This is Balpreet Kaur, the girl from the picture. … I’m not embarrased or even humiliated by the attention [negative and positve] that this picture is getting because, it’s who I am. 

Yes, I’m a baptized Sikh woman with facial hair. Yes, I realize that my gender is often confused and I look different than most women. 

However, baptized Sikhs believe in the sacredness of this body - it is a gift that has been given to us by the Divine Being [which is genderless, actually] and, must keep it intact as a submission to the divine will. Just as a child doesn’t reject the gift of his/her parents, Sikhs do not reject the body that has been given to us. … 

My attitude and thoughts and actions have more value in them than my body because I recognize that this body is just going to become ash in the end, so why fuss about it? 

When I die, no one is going to remember what I looked like, heck, my kids will forget my voice, and slowly, all physical memory will fade away. However, my impact and legacy will remain: and, by not focusing on the physical beauty, I have time to cultivate those inner virtues and hopefully, focus my life on creating change and progress for this world in any way I can. … 

I appreciate all of the comments here, both positive and less positive because I’ve gotten a better understanding of myself and others from this.”

Then, miracle of miracles, european_douchebag apologized:

I know that this post ISN’T a funny post but I felt the need to apologize to the Sikhs, Balpreet, and anyone else I offended when I posted that picture. Put simply it was stupid. Making fun of people is funny to some but incredibly degrading to the people you’re making fun of. It was an incredibly rude, judgmental, and ignorant thing to post. … 

I’ve read more about the Sikh faith and it was actually really interesting. It makes a whole lot of sense to work on having a legacy and not worrying about what you look like. I made that post for stupid internet points and I was ignorant. 

So reddit I’m sorry for being an a**hole and for giving you negative publicity. Balpreet, I’m sorry for being a closed minded individual. You are a much better person than I am Sikhs, I’m sorry for insulting your culture and way of life. Balpreet’s faith in what she believes is astounding.

Just… wow.

Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul, instead of waiting for someone to bring you flowers.
— Veronica A. Shoffstall (via hellanne)
cigrette: Canada, 1997, Hannah’s Recipe for Ink, by K. Louise Vincent View high resolution

cigrette:

Canada, 1997, Hannah’s Recipe for Ink, by K. Louise Vincent

Sometimes
melancholy leaves me breathless.
— Mary Oliver, from “Sometimes” (via awritersruminations)
Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass.
— Anton Chekhov (via growing-orbits)

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Stop worrying about your identity and concern yourself with the people you care about, ideas that matter to you, beliefs you can stand by, tickets you can run on. Intelligent humans make those choices with their brain and hearts and they make them alone. The world does not deliver meaning to you. You have to make it meaningful…and decide what you want and need and must do. It’s a tough, unimaginably lonely and complicated way to be in the world. But that’s the deal: you have to live; you can’t live by slogans, dead ideas, clichés, or national flags. Finding an identity is easy. It’s the easy way out.
— Zadie Smith (via petalis)
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