"Comparison is the thief of joy."

Theodore Roosevelt

"If you’re not having fun, you’re doing something wrong."

Groucho Marx

"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."

Rumi (via tobia)
nevver:

J.W.N. Sullivan, Beethoven: His Spiritual Development

"Wise men learn more from fools than fools from the wise."

Cato the Elder

"Don’t get set into one form, adapt it and build your own, and let it grow, be like water. Empty your mind, be formless, shapeless —like water. Now you put water in a cup, it becomes the cup; You put water into a bottle it becomes the bottle; You put it in a teapot it becomes the teapot. Now water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend."

Bruce Lee

"Not everybody is comfortable with the idea that politics is a guilty addiction. But it is. They are addicts, and they are guilty and they do lie and cheat and steal — like all junkies. And when they get in a frenzy, they will sacrifice anything and anybody to feed their cruel and stupid habit, and there is no cure for it. That is addictive thinking. That is politics…"

nevver:



Everything

likeafieldmouse:

Claudio Allia - Innocence (2011) - Collage combining photodocumentation of a programmed cave explosion and children playing

“There are times when children might seem like innocent prisoners, condemned, not to death, but to life, and as yet all unconscious of what their sentence means.”

—Arthur Schopenhauer

silfarione:

A picture is the expression of an impression. If the beautiful were not in us, how would we ever recognize it?“ 

Photo and quote by Ernst Haas.