It is not necessary that a man should earn his living by the sweat of his brow, unless he sweats easier than I do.
Henry David Thoreau in Walden
Josh Cairney
Afoot and light-hearted, I take to the open road,
Healthy, free, the world before me,
The long brown path before me, leading wherever I choose.
Henceforth I ask not good-fortune—I myself am good fortune;
Henceforth I whimper no more, postpone no more, need nothing,
Strong and content, I travel the open road.
Walt Whitman from Song of the Open Road
He Died with a Felafel in His Hand (2001)
When we close our eyes, everything disappears and if we open them fast enough, we might be able to catch the greater intelligence out and see that there’s actually nothing there.
(via capturedquotes)
I have shelves of other people’s words. I left myself somewhere in between the bold ones.
Joel P. West (28th & NE Davis)
Pi (1998)
It’s fair to say I’m stepping out on a limb,
but I am on the edge and that’s where it happens.
When we are afraid we turn to words of men who had no more time on earth than us, and no better feeling when they woke up on mornings after they had wondered why they were alive and gave into awful things deep in the night. Tired and haunted by all the holes that nobody’s ever known. What would we do without them?
Joel P. West (The Tree Ring — The Uninvited Grey)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Oh great bottle, forgive me my sins,
for now I lay me down to sleep. Bo-peep.
May I drink of you first? Thank you. Amen.
(via capturedquotes)
Just laying around, farting in bed. Or as I call it, ‘filling the sails of my dinghy to dream country’.
The whole world’s a bottle, and life is but a dram. When the bottle gets empty, it sure ain’t worth a damn.
Bob Dylan (Moonshiner)
Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work or play, and lots of walking bring us close to the actual existing world and its wholeness.
Gary Snyder
(via ineffablythoughtless)
(via ineffablythoughtless)
Winter, a bad guest, sitteth with me at home; blue are my hands with his friendly hand-shaking
Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
So here’s my advice to you: this should have turned out different, but it didn’t, so get over it.
Ladd Mitchell, Park
Paul Rand for Pastore Depamphilis, Rampone (1985)
“What would life be if we had no courage to attempt anything?”
— Vincent Van Gough
Foolish is my happiness, and foolish things will it speak: it is still too young—so have patience with it!
Friedrich Nietzsche in Thus Spoke Zarathustra
who says what happy really means? tonight I will redefine everything, tomorrow I will start in on my better days
Chris Conley (from Saves the Day’s “Obsolete”)
