"This whole world’s wild at heart and weird on top."

Wild at Heart, dir. David Lynch, 1990

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Into The Wild. Christopher McCandless. Thoughts upon isolation.

“When you do something noble and beautiful and nobody noticed, do not be sad. For the sun every morning is a beautiful spectacle and yet most of the audience still sleeps.”

-John Lennon

“…10. Don’t try to be great. Being great involves luck and other circumstances beyond your control. The less you think about being great, the more likely it is to happen. And if it doesn’t, there is absolutely nothing wrong with being solid.”
-Charles Wheelan

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 Without the balance of doing things that actually matter in the world - and being part of the real world - then I would have been left in a bubble. That would have felt very empty and I probably would have just had a very shallow, horrible life. I have a real view of the real world. I’m very touched and very moved by people and what they overcome. They have always reminded me to just wake up in the morning and be grateful that your children are healthy. Nothing else matters. - Angelina Jolie 

I have no shame in saying that I look up to her as an individual. She’s hitting the nerve - in a quiet, simple, yet dynamic way. 

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“The 4 Rules”

1. Whatever happens was the right thing.

2. Whoever’s there is the right person.

3. Whenever it starts was the right time.

4. When it’s over, it’s over.

-Anne Lamott

All life is interrelated…we’re caught in an inescapable network of mutuality tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectly. For some strange reason, I can never be what I ought to be until you are what you ought to be. You can never be what you ought to be until I am what I ought to be. This is the interrelated structure of reality. 

-MLK Jr.

‎”The way you vote, the way you live, the way you protest, the pressure you bring to bare on your government has an impact way beyond your borders. That is your privilege and your burden. If you choose to use your status and influence to raise your voice on behalf of those who have no voice, if you choose to identify not only with the powerful but with the powerless, if you retain to imagine yourself into the lives of those who do not have your advantages then it will not only be your proud families who celebrate your existence but thousands and millions of people who’s reality you have helped change. We do not need magic to transform our world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already. We have the power to imagine better.”

-J.K. Rowling

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"If you were to bother to read my books, to behave as educated persons would, you would learn that they are not sexy, and do not argue in favor of wildness of any kind. They beg that people be kinder and more responsible than they often are. It is true that some of the characters speak coarsely. That is because people speak coarsely in real life. Especially soldiers and hardworking men speak coarsely, and even our most sheltered children know that. And we all know, too, that those words really don’t damage children much. They didn’t damage us when we were young. It was evil deeds and lying that hurt us."

Kurt Vonnegut to the head of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota, after the school burned all of its copies of Slaughterhouse-Five in 1973. (via minusmanhattan)

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“if the world were merely seductive, that would be easy. if it were merely challenging, that would be no problem. but i arise in the morning torn between a desire to improve the world and a desire to enjoy the world. this makes it hard to plan the day.”

e. b. white, 1976

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"and the day came when the risk it took to remain tight in the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom."

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Always my challenge and my blessing.

The Four Feathers

Abou Fatma: Are you a deserter? 
Harry Faversham: Something like that. I was sent to fight and I ran away. 
Abou Fatma: Why? 
Harry Faversham: Why? I just… There are many reasons why. Mostly I was afraid. 
Abou Fatma: [laughs] I found you halfdead crossing the desert alone. And you say you are afraid? 

exactly.