I’m sexy and I know it!
What civilization is
is 6 billion people trying to make themselves happy
by standing on each others shoulders and
kicking each others teeth in.
Its not a pleasant situation,
and yet you can stand back
and look at our planet and see
that we have the money, the power,
the medical…
Be careful whose advice you buy, but be patient with those who supply it. Advice is a form of nostalgia. Dispensing it is a way of fishing the past from the disposal, wiping it off, painting over the ugly parts and recycling it for more than it’s worth.
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| — | vonnegut’s (via bbeecckkk) |
Everyone is a genius. But if you judge a fish by it’s ability to climb a tree, it will live its whole life believing it is stupid.
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| — | Albert Einstein (via enterthrutheexit) |
I tell you to savor this moment and understand what it teaches. I tell you to learn that a government’s growth and it’s death are apparent in the growth and death of its citizens.
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| — | The Preacher, Children of Dune (via kyleschen) |
You who have defeated us say to yourselves that Babylon is fallen and its works have been overturned. I say to you still that man remains on trial, each man in his own dock. Each man is a little war.
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| — | Paul Muad’dib (via theroseofstormsend) |
I must not fear.
Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear.
I will permit it to pass over me and through me.
And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain.
