“Just Walk Beside Me And Be My Friend”

Folks, it’s time to evolve. That’s why we’re troubled. You know why our institutions are failing us, the church, the state, everything’s failing? It’s because, um – they’re no longer relevant. We’re supposed to keep evolving. Evolution did not end with us growing opposable thumbs. You do know that, right?

Bill Hicks (via aejphillips)

“What We do in the Shadows“ (2014),

Dir: Jemaine Clement and Taika Waititi, DoP: Richard Bluck and D.J. Stipsen. Mockumentary

It’s just about finding that balance

Types as Oscar Wilde Quotes

ESTJ: “No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

ISTJ: “If I am occasionally a little over-dressed, I make up for it by being always immensely over-educated.”

ESFJ: “The nicest feeling in the world is to do a good deed anonymously–and have somebody find out.” 

ISFJ: “There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up.”

ENTJ: “There is no sin except stupidity.”

INTJ: “A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.”  

ENFJ: “You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”

INFJ: “Behind every exquisite thing that existed, there was something tragic.”  

ESTP: “I can resist anything except temptation.”  

ISTP: “One should always be a little improbable.” 

ESFP: “Some things are more precious because they don’t last long.” 

ISFP: “Every portrait that is painted with feeling is a portrait of the artist, not of the sitter.”

ENTP: “I am so clever that sometimes I don’t understand a single word of what I am saying.” 

INTP: “Always forgive your enemies; nothing annoys them so much.”

ENFP: “Never love anyone who treats you like you’re ordinary.”

INFP: “Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.”

The art of being alone is something few have truly mastered. And yet, the whole process is so serendipitous that I wish everyone could. It is not our desire to be alone that leads us to achieve it, but rather, our desire for the exact opposite. It is in searching for company, for someone or something to fill the void within us, that we come to find the beauty of solitude; that we come to understand that not every breathing moment requires noise; that we discover just how beautiful utter silence can be, too.

“When something is important enough, you do it even if the odds are not in your favor. -Elon Musk”

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Definition of cosiness

There is a phrase used to describe people, often strangers, as “ships passing in the night.” The phrase is meant to describe how fleeting the intersection of two lives can be, how briefly people we don’t know can flicker in and out of our lives. 

But when I read about the Titanic, I think we can push the phrase further. Because sometimes, as you pass another ship in the night, you may hear a cry in the dark. A person in danger. A shout for help. Distress rockets and SOS signals wailing into the night. A stranger in crisis. 

And in those fleeting moments as your ship passes theirs, you get to make the choice- are you the Californian, the closest ship to the Titanic, which saw the distress rockets and saw the lights on the horizon and sat and did nothing; or are you the Carpathia, turning on a dime, pushing all steam to the engines, racing to help. 

We can not say for sure what caused the Californian to not help the Titanic in that night of crisis. Whether is was apathy or incompetence or fear, we don’t know.

 But we know that every single soul who survived the Titanic survived because of the Carpathia. Because the crew and the passengers of that ship raced nearly 60 miles through ice fields above their maximum speed in the dead of night, readying life boats, readying triage, to pull them from the water. 

So, yes, we are ships passing in the night, and when given the chance to turn away or do good, always err on the side of reckless compassion. 

"You must have chaos within you to give birth to a dancing star."

-Friedrich Nietzsche