"Choosing a path meant having to miss out on others. She had a whole life to live, and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now. ‘I’m afraid of committing myself,’ she thought to herself. She wanted to follow all possible paths and so ended up following none. Even in that most important area of her life, love, she had failed to commit herself. After her first romantic disappointment, she had never again given herself entirely. She feared pain, loss, and separation. These things were inevitable on the path to love, and the only way of avoiding them was by deciding not to take that path at all. In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes not to see the bad things in life."
Paolo Coelho (via wearestaggering)
Wonders of the World
“Junior high school students in Chicago were studying the Seven Wonders of the World. At the end of the lesson, the students were asked to list what they considered to be the Seven Wonders of the World. Though there was some disagreement, the following received the most votes:
- Egypt’s Great Pyramids
- The Taj Mahal in India
- The Grand Canyon in Arizona
- The Panama Canal
- The Empire State Building
- St. Peter’s Basilica
- China’s Great Wall
While gathering the votes, the teacher noted that one student, a quiet girl, hadn’t turned in her paper yet. So she asked the girl if she was having trouble with her list. The quiet girl replied, “Yes, a little. I couldn’t quite make up my mind because there were so many.” The teacher said, “Well, tell us what you have, and maybe we can help.” The girl hesitated, then read, “I think the Seven Wonders of the World are:
- to touch…
- to taste…
- to see…
- to hear… (She hesitated a little, and then added…)
- to feel…
- to laugh…
- and to love.
The room was so quiet, you could have heard a pin drop. May this story serve as a gentle reminder to all of us that the things we overlook as simple and ordinary are often the most wonderful - and we don’t have to travel anywhere special to experience them. Enjoy your gifts!”—
(Author Unknown - source)
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live life artfully. :]
anybody, actually
sigh.
it’s been a solitary autumn, with no changing leaves, these past few years.
perhaps the next.
"We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing – an actor, a writer – I am a person who does things – I write, I act – and I never know what I am going to do next. I think you can be imprisoned if you think of yourself as a noun."
Stephen Fry (via fuckyeahstephenfry)
(by dom)
"The difference between the almost right word and the right word is really a large matter–’tis the difference between the lightning bug and the lightning."
Mark Twain (via quote-book)
so take a chance and make it big cuz it’s the last you’ll ever get.
(if we don’t take it, when will we make it?)
I make plans to break plans and i’ve been planning something big.
“The Phrase That Pays” by The Academy Is…
sidenote: My life is a series of The Academy Is.. songs.
