“She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.” - Angela Carter

“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be alone, we can be with others without using them as an escape.” - Bell Hooks

David Foster Wallace on Ambition

“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.” - Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums

Liberal Arts

Really loved this movie, made me miss college and the joy of learning to learn.

Reveal everything there is to know about yourself and let the chips fall where they may.

“Loneliness is black coffee and late-night television; solitude is herb tea and soft music. Solitude, quality solitude, is an assertion of self-worth, because only in the stillness can we hear the truth of our own unique voices.” - Pearl Cleage

Ron Swanson

Sex life...epic and private.

“We are all more than the sum of what happened to us. I am not what happened to me - I am what I choose to become.” - Carl Jung

Thinking of Boston.

“Absence diminishes little passions and increases great ones, as wind extinguishes candles and fans a fire.” - Walt Whitman

Prescence

“Give up defining yourself - to yourself or to others. You won’t die. You will come to life. And don’t be concerned with how others define you. When they define you, they are limiting themselves, so it’s their problem. Whenever you interact with people, don’t be there primarily as a function or a role, but as the field of conscious Presence. You can only lose something that you have, but you cannot lose something that you are.”

- Eckhart Tolle