Stuff That Happened to Me

I am driven by two main philosophies, know more about the world than I knew yesterday and lessen the suffering of others. You’d be surprised how far that gets you.
by Neil deGrasse Tyson
(Source: crookedindifference, via blua)

…the universe wants to be noticed. But what we want is to be noticed by the universe, to have the universe give a shit what happens to us—not the collective idea of sentient life but each of us, as individuals.
by The Fault in Our Stars, John Green

It is an illusion that youth is happy, an illusion of those who have lost it; but the young know they are wretched for they are full of the truthless ideal which have been instilled into them, and each time they come in contact with the real, they are bruised and wounded. It looks as if they were victims of a conspiracy; for the books they read, ideal by the necessity of selection, and the conversation of their elders, who look back upon the past through a rosy haze of forgetfulness, prepare them for an unreal life. They must discover for themselves that all they have read and all they have been told are lies.
by W. Maugham
(Source: blua)

Nothing else ever in your life will affect you like music did in your early teens, and it puts you on a certain course. It’s like a love affair. It widens your taste and it broadens your view on everything. It saves you.
by Morrissey
(Source: arrests, via loveyourchaos)

I know exactly how that is. To love somebody who doesn’t deserve it. Because they are all you have. Because any attention is better than no attention. For exactly the same reason, it is sometimes satisfying to cut yourself and bleed. On those gray days where eight in the morning looks no different from noon and nothing has happened and nothing is going to happen and you are washing a glass in the sink and it breaks-accidentally-and punctures your skin. And then there is this shocking red, the brightest thing in the day, so vibrant it buzzes, this blood of yours. That is okay sometimes because at least you know you’re alive.
by Augusten Burroughs
(Source: vivaahate, via loveyourchaos)

I know it’s 2012, but it sure feels like 1984 in this House today.
by
Rep. Hank Johnson (D-GA) on Thursday, after the House of Representatives passed CISPA, which critics argue undermines basic privacy rights.

Learn everything you need to know about CISPA.
(Source: think-progress, via truth-has-a-liberal-bias)

The worst illiterate is the political illiterate. He hears nothing, sees nothing, takes no part in political life. He doesn’t seem to know the cost of living, the price of beans, of rent, of medicines, all depend on political decisions. He even prides himself on his political ignorance, sticks out his chest and says he hates politics. He doesn’t know, the imbecile, that from his political non-participation comes the prostitute, the abandoned child, the robber and, worst of all, corrupt officials, the lackeys of exploitative multinational corporations.
by Bertolt Brecht

Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are dangerously close to wanting nothing.
by Sylvia Plath
(Source: summiting, via ambivlence)

It’s the oldest story in the world. One day, you’re 17 and you’re planning for someday. And then quietly, without you’re ever really noticing, someday is today. And then someday is yesterday. And this is your life.
by Nathan Scott
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Forget your personal tragedy. We are all bitched from the start and you especially have to hurt like hell before you can write seriously. But when you get the damned hurt use it—don’t cheat with it. Be as faithful to it as a scientist—but don’t think anything is of any importance because it happens to you or anyone belonging to you.
by Hemingway to Fitzgerald, 1934
(Source: lettersofnote.com, via fuckthereallife)

The general population doesn’t know what’s happening, and it doesn’t even know that it doesn’t know.
by Noam Chomsky
(Source: noam-chomsky, via amodernmanifesto)

For the first eight years of our marriage, [Michelle and I] were paying more in student loans than what we were paying for our mortgage. So we know what this is about.

And we were lucky to land good jobs with a steady income. But we only finished paying off our student loans—check this out, all right, I’m the President of the United States—we only finished paying off our student loans about eight years ago.
by President Obama in North Carolina today on why Congress has to act to prevent interest rates on student loans from doubling
(Source: barackobama, via wisnian)

Someone you haven’t even met yet is wondering what it’d be like to know someone like you.
by Iain Thomas
(Source: 4mbivalent, via 24ribs)

Can you lose your favorite person without losing yourself?
by Jerry Spinelli
(Source: smited, via 24ribs)