“The human family - originating in one small locale in East Africa a few million years ago - wandered, separated, diversified and became strangers to one another.”
Carl Sagan, Billions and Billions
May212012
May162012
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
John Steinbeck
(Source: accidentalism, via amborella)
12AM
(Source: buddhabrot, via neo-psychedelia)
May122012
Did you know
In the 1800’s and early 1900’s, people would buy Egyptian mummies and have ‘unwrapping parties’ with their friends.
May82012
Hey
When you are born, you will share your birthday with 17 million people.
During your 10 years in school, you will have an average of 17 friends.
By the time you are 40 that number will have dropped down to 2.
You will grow 950km of hair.
You will laugh an average of 18 times a day.
You will walk the equivalent of 3 times the circumference of the Earth.
You will eat 30 tons of food.
You will drink over 9000 cups of coffee.
You will have one opportunity in 10 of getting electrocuted.
On average, you will spend 10 years of your life in work,
20 years sleeping,
3 years sitting on the toilet,
7 months waiting in traffic,
2 months waiting on hold on your phone,
12 years watching TV,
..and 19 days looking for the remote.
This leaves you with one fifth of your life to actually live..
So what are you waiting for?
May62012
“Among other things, you’ll find that you’re not the first person who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior. You’re by no means alone on that score, you’ll be excited and stimulated to know. Many, many men have been just as troubled morally and spiritually as you are right now. Happily, some of them kept records of their troubles. You’ll learn from them - if you want to. Just as someday, if you have something to offer, someone will learn something from you. It’s a beautiful reciprocal arrangement. And it isn’t education. It’s history. It’s poetry.”
J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye
(Source: light-essence, via abstraktum)
April242012
“I am a weak, ephemeral creature made of mud and dream. But I feel all the powers of the universe whirling within me.”
Nikos Kazantzakis
3PM
“Trying to change social, national, or global realities without working on human consciousness means there is no serious intention.”
Sadhguru Jaggi Vasudev
(via laplumeabelle)
April132012
“I wish that every human life might be pure transparent freedom.”
Simone de Beauvoir
(Source: fernsandmoss, via biscodeja-vu)
April22012
“Just because some of us can read and write and do a little math, that doesn’t mean we deserve to conquer the Universe.”
Kurt Vonnegut
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