June 2011
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Do not wait for leaders; do it alone, person to person.
– Mother Teresa (via hvc3)
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Anonymous asked: Book suggestions?
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The peculiar evil of silencing the expression of an opinion is that it is...
– John Stuart Mill
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How to survive the age of distraction →
…And here’s the function that the book – the paper book that doesn’t beep or flash or link or let you watch a thousand videos all at once – does for you that nothing else will. It gives you the capacity for deep, linear concentration. As Ulin puts it: “Reading is an act of resistance in a landscape of distraction…. It requires us to pace ourselves. It returns us to a reckoning with time. In the...
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Saints need sinners.
– Alan Watts (via metaconscious)
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Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to...
– Mark Twain
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And then he just sort of wandered off...
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The Hippies →
by Hunter S. Thompson
The best year to be a hippie was 1965, but then there was not much to write about, because not much was happening in public and most of what was happening in private was illegal. The real year of the hippie was 1966, despite the lack of publicity, which in 1967 gave way to a nationwide avalanche - in Look, Life, Time, Newsweek, the Atlantic, the New York Times, the...
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I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...
– Bill Hicks (via thecosmonaut)
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Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through...
– Ellen Goodman (via oceanofmind)
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