Thinking Shminking

There are two ways to slide easily through life: to believe everything or to doubt everything; both ways save us from thinking. – Theodore Rubin

This is how it starts, not with a bang

Melancholy and sadness are the start of doubt... doubt is the beginning of despair; despair is the cruel beginning of the differing degrees of wickedness. - Isidore Ducasse Lautreamont

Despair/Happiness - The Mouse Trap



This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper

Q and No A?

Have patience with everything unresolved and try to love the questions. – Rainer Maria Rilke

Keep on keepin' on

When you feel like giving up, remember why you held on for so long in the first place. ~ Unknown

 

It's Your Choice

We either make ourselves miserable or we make ourselves strong.  The amount of work is the same. - don Juan Matus, as quoted by Carlos Castaneda

I could listen to all my friends

and go out again

and pretend it's enough

or I could make a career of being blue

I could dress in black and read Camus

smoke clove cigarettes and drink vermouth

Life, Love lie outside the confines of the turmoil in your head

Let go. Why do you cling to pain? There is nothing you can do about the wrongs of yesterday. It is not yours to judge. Why hold on to the very thing which keeps you from hope and love?
-- Leo Buscaglia

 

Everything. Life.

The truth is that life is delicious, horrible, charming, frightful, sweet, bitter, and that is everything. - Anatole France

Love your suffering, don't suffer your love

You know quite well, deep within you, that there is only a single magic, a single power, a single salvation...and that is called loving. Well, then, love your suffering. Do not resist it, do not flee from it. It is your aversion that hurts, nothing else. – Herman Hesse




Why would you want to miss out on all that prime suffering?

Self-Discovery

"Everybody knows what's going wrong with the world I don't even know what's going on in myself." -The The (Matt Johnson)

Slow Emotion Replay - The The