An eclectic look at what I find beautiful and amusing. 50’s male PNW. We’re born alone, we live alone, we die alone. Only through our love and friendship can we create the Illusion for the moment that we’re not alone.
Orson Welles
I’m a leaf on the wind, watch how I soar
Firefly
A mind needs books like a sword needs a whetstone
GOT
“She was beautiful, but not like those girls in the magazines. She was beautiful, for the way she thought. She was beautiful, for the sparkle in her eyes when she talked about something she loved. She was beautiful, for her ability to make other people smile, even if she was sad. No, she wasn’t beautiful for something as temporary as her looks. She was beautiful, deep down to her soul.”
— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via purplebuddhaquotes)
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known suffering, known struggle, known loss, and have found their way out of the depths. These persons have an appreciation, a sensitivity, and an understanding of life that fills them with compassion, gentleness, and a deep loving concern. Beautiful people do not just happen.”
— Elizabeth Kubler Ross
“Beautiful people are not always good but good people are always beautiful.”
— Anonymous
(via wnq-anonymous)
““Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”. Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others…””
— Timothy Leary
(via amortizing)
“1. Be grateful. It really does start and end with that. 2. Do nothing. No, for reals. Just sit. Just be. Drown out all the clanking and clatter of your day and just connect with yourself. Even it’s only sixty seconds. 3. Never put all your happiness in another person. People change. People leave. 4. Being open about your problems is healthy, but there comes a point when it becomes simply dwelling on the past and it drains everyone around you. Acknowledge when you’ve reached this point. 5. Put some time away to go outside. Netflix, shortbread, eggnog, visiting, shopping, and on and on is killing us. Find balance. Go outside. 6. Don’t be so intense all the time. We all get tired of swimming against the current, sometimes you need to just float. Lighten the eff up! 7. Stop avoiding everything. Avoidance is just a long drawn out suicide. 8. Never underestimate the power of honest words and a handmade gift, money isn’t the only way to tell someone you value them this holiday. Get crafty muthafugga. 9. Boundaries are mandatory. Set ‘em and expect ‘em. 10. Try and understand intentions and situations before you get fed up with someone. Death from assumicide is an awful way to go. 11. Tough love is necessary sometimes. Be a parent, not another one of their friends. 12. Be open to anything and everything. Life is short and definitely not fun when you’re a closed off. 13. If you’re still checking their Facebook/Instagram/Tumblr, you’re never going to get over them. Let that shit go. 14. Always give priority to the ones that make you a priority in their lives. It’s that whole tit for tat thing. 15. Struggle is good. Choose “bring it on!” over “I can’t take it anymore.” 16. Drink more water, dummy. 17. Try to be kind as often as you can. It’s difficult, but honey something something vinegar something something. 18. Shut your mouth, stop thinking you know everything, and listen. Most people are a hell of a lot smart than you think. Make it a goal to learn one new thing today. 19. Everything seems worse first thing in the morning and right before you fall asleep. Recognize this and adjust accordingly. 20. Appropriate footwear is always a smart choice. Winter is not a time for fashion over function.”
— daily-esprit-descalier (Holiday Tidbits or How I’m Trying To Be Less Grinchy This December)
“Truth is like the stars; it does not appear except from behind obscurity of the night. Truth is like all beautiful things in the world; it does not disclose its desirability except to those who first feel the influence of falsehood. Truth is a deep kindness that teaches us to be content in our everyday life and share with the people the same happiness.”
— Kahlil Gibran
“You have a taste of tempest on your lips And a dress red as blood Deep in the gold of summer.”
— Odysseas Elytis, from ‘Marina On The Rocks’
“I’ll never know, and neither will you, of the life you don’t choose. We’ll only know that whatever that sister life was, it was important and beautiful and not ours. It was the ghost ship that didn’t carry us. There’s nothing to do but salute it from the shore.”
— Cheryl Strayed, Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Dear Sugar
Sometimes you meet someone who’s like a rainbow. For a brief moment in time you experience this wondrous, amazingly beautiful person that touches your life. And even though that incredible moment where you were so close may fade you will forever remember that moment in time where it was the most beautiful thing you could have known. Touching your life for all time.
“There was an episode, one of my favorite moments in Star Trek, when Captain Kirk looks over the cosmos and says, ‘Somewhere out there someone is saying the three most beautiful words in any language.’ Of course your heart sinks and you think it’s going to be, ‘I love you’ or whatever. He says, ‘Please help me.’ What a philosophically fantastic idea, that vulnerability and need is a beautiful thing.”
— Hugh Laurie (via ladyinfurs)
