February 1, 2012

In a car you’’re always in a compartment, and because you’’re used to it you don’t realize that through that car window everything you see is just more TV. You’’re a passive observer and it is all moving by you boringly in a frame.

    On a motorcycle the frame is gone. You’’re completely in contact with it all. You’’re in the scene, not just watching it anymore, and the sense of presence is overwhelming. That concrete whizzing by five inches below your foot is the real thing, the same stuff you walk on, it’s right there, so blurred you can’t focus on it, yet you can put your foot down and touch it anytime, and the whole thing, the whole experience, is never removed from immediate consciousness.

Robert M. Pirsig - Zen and the Art of the Motorcycle Maintenance

9:05pm
February 1, 2012

2:07pm
January 31, 2012
"You do anything long enough to escape the habit of living until the escape becomes the habit."

— David Ryan

11:01pm
January 31, 2012
When it comes to relationships, I have the emotional mindset of a battered housewife. “It’s not him, it’s me. It’s my fault he treats me the way I do. I should be grateful he even pays attention to me. He’s usually such a nice guy… He even took me to dinner last week, where he accidentally gave me a bloody nose for smiling at the waiter too much. It was really my fault though, I shouldn’t have been smiling so much but I couldn’t help it because it was the first time we’ve been out to eat in months.. It’s okay though, because he’s really a good guy. You just don’t understand the ways we love each other.” …sigh

When it comes to relationships, I have the emotional mindset of a battered housewife.

“It’s not him, it’s me. It’s my fault he treats me the way I do. I should be grateful he even pays attention to me. He’s usually such a nice guy… He even took me to dinner last week, where he accidentally gave me a bloody nose for smiling at the waiter too much. It was really my fault though, I shouldn’t have been smiling so much but I couldn’t help it because it was the first time we’ve been out to eat in months.. It’s okay though, because he’s really a good guy. You just don’t understand the ways we love each other.”

…sigh

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January 30, 2012
why hello there

why hello there

5:56pm
January 30, 2012
karma is a bitch ain’t it

karma is a bitch ain’t it

9:40am
January 29, 2012
keep it real yo

keep it real yo

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January 29, 2012
Culture Desk: Cover Story: The Big Game : The New Yorker

Culture Desk: Cover Story: The Big Game : The New Yorker

(via dayofthedreamweavers)

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January 28, 2012

genosyyde:

LOL

(Source: hysterical-blindness)

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January 27, 2012
“Life is 10% of What Happens to Me and 90% of How I React to It”

The longer I live, the more I realize the impact of attitude on life. Attitude, to me, is more important than facts. It is more important than the past, the education, the money, than circumstances, than failure, than successes, than what other people think or say or do. It is more important than appearance, giftedness or skill. It will make or break a company…a church…a home. The remarkable thing is we have a choice everyday regarding the attitude we will embrace for that day. We cannot change our past…we cannot change the fact that people will act in a certain way. We cannot change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude. I am convinced that life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it. And so it is with you. We are in charge of our attitudes.

-Chuck Swindoll

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