“Live the full life of the mind, exhilarated by new ideas, intoxicated by the Romance of the unusual.” - Ernest Hemingway

Amy Is The Best

“Great people do things before they’re ready. They do things before they know they can do it. And by doing it, they’re proven right. Because, I think there’s something inside of you—and inside of all of us—when we see something and we think, ‘I think I can do it, I think I can do it. But I’m afraid to.’ Bridging that gap, doing what you’re afraid of, getting out of your comfort zone, taking risks like that—THAT is what life is. And I think you might be really good. You might find out something about yourself that’s special. And if you’re not good, who cares? You tried something. Now you know something about yourself. Now you know. A mystery is solved. So, I think you should just give it a try. Just inch yourself out of that back line. Step into life. Courage. Risks. Yes. Go. Now.”

- Amy Poehler

Why Feminism Is Important

The Heart Of The Matter

An explanation of  why the humanities and social sciences are so important.

A Judicious and Festive Selection

“Painful is the stress when one cannot reproduce or convey vividly to others, however hard he tries, what he’s experienced so intensely.” - Haruki Murakami

Boredom

“‘I’m bored’ is a useless thing to say. I mean, you live in a great, big, vast world that you’ve seen none percent of. Even the inside of your own mind is endless, it goes on forever, inwardly, do you understand? The fact that you’re alive is amazing, so you don’t get to say ‘I’m bored.’”

- Louis C.K.

Thought

That is where my dearest and brightest dreams have ranged — to hear for the duration of a heartbeat the universe and the totality of life in its mysterious, innate harmony. — Hermann Hesse

Sinnerman

I like it. It's got that what-a-cruel-world-let's-toss-ourselves- in-the-abyss type ambience.

Dear Diary, I want to kill.

And you have to believe it’s for more than just selfish reasons, more than just a spoke in my menstrual cycle…

-Heathers

Everything Else Is Secondary

“Within the souls of the awkward and the overlooked often burns something radiant.” - Jo Ann Beard

Charles Bradley Why Is It So Hard

My mom went to college in Gainseville, Florida so did my sister. My dad was born in Brooklyn, raised in Poughkeepsie. I love America.

The Guest House

“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”

- Rumi, “The Guest House”

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

The Most Important Things

“The most important things are the hardest things to say. They are things you get ashamed of, because words make them smaller. When they were in your head they were limitless; but when they come out they seem to be no bigger than normal things. But that’s not all. The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried; they are clues that could guide your enemies to a prize they would love to steal. It’s hard and painful for you to talk about these things … and then people just look at you strangely. They haven’t understood what you’ve said at all, or why you almost cried while you were saying it.”

- Stephen King, The Body

“You have to look backward to see the future.” - Susannah Cahalan, Brain on Fire: My Month of Madness

“I don’t think that people accept the fact that life doesn’t make sense. I think it makes people terribly uncomfortable.” - David Lynch

"The nitrogen in our DNA, the calcium in our teeth, the iron in our blood, the carbon in our apple pies were made in the interiors of collapsing stars. We are made of starstuff." Carl Sagan, Cosmos

What Matters Most

Make a radical change in your lifestyle...

“Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun. If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty”

- Into The Wild