May 2012
17 posts
“If you can’t explain it simply, you don’t understand it well enough.”
– Albert Einstein
“Sometimes you just have to engage and improvise.”
– Napoleon
“I never took drugs because I am drugs.”
– Salvador Dalí
“I can resist everything except temptation.”
– Oscar Wilde
“Good people keep walking whatever happens. They do not speak vain words and are...”
“Be a Columbus to whole new continents within you, opening new channels, not of...”
“A man who dares to waste one hour of life has not discovered the value of life.”
– Charles Darwin
“The man who trades freedom for security usually ends up with neither.”
– Benjamin Franklin
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.”
– Mark Twain
“It is a miracle that curiosity survives formal education.”
– Albert Einstein
“Sometimes the view of change if distorted by a change in oneself. The room which...”
– John Steinbeck
“My face has not ignored the passage of time, but recorded it with scars, lines,...”
– John Steinbeck
“Youth, you son of a bitch, where did you go?”
– Charles Bukowski
“Chance favours the prepared mind.”
– Louis Pasteur
“Classical education teaches you to despise the wealth it prevents you from...”
– Lord Taverne
“I write only when inspiration strikes. Fortunately it strikes every morning at...”
– Somerset Maugham
“It’s one thing to study war and another to live the warrior’s life.”
– Telamon of Arcadia
April 2012
1 post
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“And I wanted to be a writer. Almost everybody was a writer. Not everybody...”
– Charles Bukowski
March 2012
3 posts
A wanderer who’d go anywhere but fit in nowhere.
If it feels like work, you’re working too hard.
“Nothing works out according to plan, but it always works out.”
February 2012
14 posts
“News never changes much. It’s just the same things happening to different...”
– One man’s wilderness
“This country makes a man younger than his birthdays.”
– One man’s wilderness
“There’s no sleeping pill like a good day’s work.”
– One man’s wilderness
“The mountains are wearing new hats this morning.”
– One man’s wilderness
“It seems a shame for eyes to be shut when such things are going on, especially...”
– One man’s wilderness
“I thought of the man at his desk staring down from a city window at the ant...”
– One man’s wilderness
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“Don’t Forget to Remember”
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“We read and read and read, and we forget and forget and forget. So why do we...”
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“Monotony collapses time; novelty unfolds it.”
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“He got what he wanted but lost what he had.”
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“The packing lists were never wrong probably because the guy at the other end was...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“How in the hell could a man enjoy being awakened at 6:30 a.m. by an alarm clock,...”
– Charles Bukowski
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“I’ve given you my time. It’s all I’ve got to give—it’s all any man has. And for...”
– Charles Bukowski
A man grows most tired when standing still.
January 2012
23 posts
Sometimes you have to travel a long way to find what is near.
No, nothing has changed. But we—who went off in search of our kingdom and discovered lands we had never seen before—know we are different.
We rented a small room in a two-star hotel in France, intending to spend five months of the year there. There was just one small wardrobe in the room, and so we had to keep clothes to a minimum. We went for long walks in the forests and the mountains, ate out, spent hours talking, and went to the cinema every day. Living like that confirmed to us that the most sophisticated things in the world are...
I realize that I will never reach my goal by staying in the same place all the time. I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads.
Go and experiment. It’s time you got out of here. Go and re-conquer your kingdom, which has grown corrupted by routine. Stop repeating the same lesson, because you won’t learn anything new that way.
Life is the train, not the station. And what you’re doing now isn’t traveling, it’s just changing countries, which is completely different.
4 tags
To live is to experience things, not sit around pondering the meaning of life.
Unbroken
“From earliest childhood, Louie had regarded every limitation placed on him as a challenge to his wits, his resourcefulness, and his determination to rebel. The result had been a mutinous youth. As maddening as his exploits had been for his parents and his town, Louie’s success in carrying them off had given him the conviction that he could think his way around any boundary. Now, as he was...
“Here be dragons”
Rock’n’roam
“So we sit in empty rooms and dream our lives away”
– Gerry Rafferty
“If we don’t stand for something, we’ll fall for anything”.
“There are two kinds of people in this world: Those that enter a room and turn the television set on, and those that enter a room and turn the television set off.”
Time is jealous of me.
I hurry slowly - Festina Lente