"The trouble with my generation is that we all think we’re fucking geniuses. Making something isn’t good enough for us, and neither is selling something, or teaching something, or even just doing something; we have to be something."
- A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby.
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"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."
- Alan Keightley
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"First, students have to jump through ever-more demanding, preassigned academic hoops. Instead of developing a passion for one subject, they’re rewarded for becoming professional students, getting great grades across all subjects, regardless of their intrinsic interests… Then they move into a ranking system in which the most competitive college, program and employment opportunity is deemed to be the best. Then they move into businesses in which the main point is to beat the competition, in which the competitive juices take control and gradually obliterate other goals…. Competition has trumped value-creation. In this and other ways, the competitive arena undermines innovation."
- David Brooks
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"There are years that ask questions and years that answer."
- Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God
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"You’re always haunted by the idea you’re wasting your life."
- Chuck Palahniuk (via abasa)
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"We’re so engaged in doing things to achieve purposes of outer value that we forget the inner value, the rapture that is associated with being alive, is what it is all about."
- Joseph Campbell
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"If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we shall never begin."
- Ivan Turgenev (via 32flavors-)
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"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late or, in my case, too early to be whoever you want to be. There’s no time limit, stop whenever you want. You can change or stay the same, there are no rules to this thing. We can make the best or the worst of it. I hope you make the best of it. And I hope you see things that startle you. I hope you feel things you never felt before. I hope you meet people with a different point of view. I hope you live a life you’re proud of. If you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via atavus)
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"Once in a while it really hits people that they don’t have to experience the world in the way they have been told to."
- Alan Keightley
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"For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again."
- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via katyjean)
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"I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone and not be defined by another person."
- Oscar Wilde (via human-voices)
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"Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally."
- Eckhart Tolle (via human-voices)
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"Only those who will risk going too far can possibly find out how far one can go."
- T.S. Eliot (via mrgolightly)
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"I think there is something beautiful in reveling in sadness. The proof is how beautiful sad songs can be. So I don’t think being sad is to be avoided. It’s apathy and boredom you want to avoid. But feeling anything is good, I think. Maybe that’s sadistic of me."
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt (via thenocturnals)
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"There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self."
- Ernest Hemingway (via emptygravity)
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