Silence

And now there is merely silence, silence, silence, saying all we did not know.
- William R. Benet

Everything

"Everything passes, but nothing entirely goes away."

- Jenny Diski

Change

"Make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt...If you want to get more out of life, you must lose your inclination for monotonous security and adopt a helter-skelter style of life that will at first appear to you to be crazy. But once you become accustomed to such a life you will see its full meaning and its incredible beauty."

- Jon Krakauer - Into the Wild

The Four Noble Truths: 4. The path to the cessation of suffering

There is a path to the end of suffering - a gradual path of self-improvement, which is described more detailed in the Eightfold Path. It is the middle way between the two extremes of excessive self-indulgence (hedonism) and excessive self-mortification (asceticism); and it leads to the end of the cycle of rebirth. The latter quality discerns it from other paths which are merely "wandering on the wheel of becoming", because these do not have a final object. The path to the end of suffering can extend over many lifetimes, throughout which every individual rebirth is subject to karmic conditioning. Craving, ignorance, delusions, and its effects will disappear gradually, as progress is made on the path.

The Four Noble Truths: 3. The cessation of suffering is attainable.

The cessation of suffering can be attained through nirodha. Nirodha means the unmaking of sensual craving and conceptual attachment. The third noble truth expresses the idea that suffering can be ended by attaining dispassion. Nirodha extinguishes all forms of clinging and attachment. This means that suffering can be overcome through human activity, simply by removing the cause of suffering. Attaining and perfecting dispassion is a process of many levels that ultimately results in the state of Nirvana. Nirvana means freedom from all worries, troubles, complexes, fabrications and ideas. Nirvana is not comprehensible for those who have not attained it.

The Four Noble Truths: 2. The origin of suffering is attachment.

The origin of suffering is attachment to transient things and the ignorance thereof. Transient things do not only include the physical objects that surround us, but also ideas, and -in a greater sense- all objects of our perception. Ignorance is the lack of understanding of how our mind is attached to impermanent things. The reasons for suffering are desire, passion, ardour, pursuit of wealth and prestige, striving for fame and popularity, or in short: craving and clinging. Because the objects of our attachment are transient, their loss is inevitable, thus suffering will necessarily follow. Objects of attachment also include the idea of a "self" which is a delusion, because there is no abiding self. What we call "self" is just an imagined entity, and we are merely a part of the ceaseless becoming of the universe.

The Four Noble Truths: 1. Life means suffering.

1. Life means suffering.

To live means to suffer, because the human nature is not perfect and neither is the world we live in. During our lifetime, we inevitably have to endure physical suffering such as pain, sickness, injury, tiredness, old age, and eventually death; and we have to endure psychological suffering like sadness, fear, frustration, disappointment, and depression. Although there are different degrees of suffering and there are also positive experiences in life that we perceive as the opposite of suffering, such as ease, comfort and happiness, life in its totality is imperfect and incomplete, because our world is subject to impermanence. This means we are never able to keep permanently what we strive for, and just as happy moments pass by, we ourselves and our loved ones will pass away one day, too.

Angry

"Angry people are not always wise."
- Jane Austen - Pride and Prejudice

Edit

 "Write drunk, edit sober."
- Ernest Hemingway

Write

"You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write."
- Saul Bellow

Beauty

Isaac

"Beauty is not in the face; beauty is a light in the heart."
- Gibran Khalil Gibran

Bullshit

 

"Just for the record, the weather today is calm and sunny, but the air is full of bullshit."

 - Chuck Palahniuk - Diary

Blossom

And the day came when the risk to remain tight in a bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossom.

- Anais Nin

Hated

"I'd rather be hated for who I am, than loved for who I am not."
- Kurt Cobain

Secret Sorrows

"Every heart has its secret sorrows which the world knows not, and oftentimes we call a man cold, when he is only sad."

- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Destination

Flaws

"I myself am made entirely of flaws, stitched together with good intentions."

- Augusten Burroughs

Touch

"She touches me as if I were herself, her own.
She has not realized yet, that fearful thing, that
I am the other,
she thinks we are all of one piece.
It is painfully untrue."
- D.H.Lawrence

Sober

"Always do sober what you said you'd do drunk. That will teach you to keep your mouth shut."

- Ernest Hemingway

Lucian Freud

Girl with a white dog - Lucian Freud

Who I Am

But give me to a rambling man
Let it always be known that i was who i am
- Rambling Man - Laura Marling

Friend

"What is a friend? A single soul dwelling in two bodies."

- Aristotle

Suddenly

...and suddenly we are older and everything around us changes, shifts to one side and we don't recognise where we are anymore

People

"People aren't either wicked or noble. They're like chef's salads, with good things and bad things chopped and mixed together in a vinaigrette of confusion and conflict."
- Lemony Snicket

Laughter

"I love people who make me laugh. I honestly think it's the thing I like most, to laugh. It cures a multitude of ills. It's probably the most important thing in a person."
- Audrey Hepburn

Reputation

Once you've ruined your reputation, you can live quite freely

Given To Fly

He could’ve tuned in, tuned in
But he tuned out
A bad time, nothing could save him
Alone in a corridor, waiting, locked out
He got up outta there, ran for hundreds of miles
He made it to the ocean, had a smoke in a tree
The wind rose up, set him down on his knee

A wave came crashing like a fist to the jaw
Delivered him wings, "Hey, look at him now"
Arms wide open with the sea as his floor
Oh, power, oh

He's.. flying
Whole…
High.. wide, oh

He floated back down 'cause he wanted to share
His key to the locks on the chains he saw everywhere
But first he was stripped and then he was stabbed
By faceless men, well, fuckers
He still stands

And he still gives his love, he just gives it away
The love he receives is the love that is saved
And sometimes is seen a strange spot in the sky
A human being that was given to fly

Given To Fly - Pearl Jam

Bedtime

"It is one of life's bitterest truths that bedtime so often arrives just when things are really getting interesting."

- Lemony Snicket

The Fall

"No excuses ever, for anyone; that is my principle at the outset. I deny the good intention, the respectable mistake, the indiscretion, the extenuating circumstance. With me there is no giving of absolution or blessing. "

- The Fall - Albert Camus

Nothing Short Of Thankful

"Hey man (yes)
Do you think we’ll ever get back home?
Well I (guess)
We choose our battles one by one.
How I need (rest)
One more day of travel on the road.
How we’ve been (blessed)
Some times I don’t feel that way.

Nothing’s gonna change my mind,
I’m walkin’ a different highway.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’m travelin’ a different line.
Oh, nothing’s gonna change my mind.
You’ll find what you need if you want it.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’ll find mine.

Brothers (yes)
I know I’m up and down.
Please, try to (accept)
Apologies for the sadness that I’ve found.
The years we’ve (spent)
Nothing short of grateful for our trip.
And those we’ve (met)
Nothing short of thankful.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind,
I’m travelin’ a different highway.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’m walkin’ a different line.
Oh, nothing’s gonna change my mind.
You’ll find what you need if you want it.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’ll find mine.

Boss man said work your way
Put it off for another day
I’m not listening tomorrow may not come
Lazy men find an easy way
Easy work for easy pay
I’m not listening there ain’t no such a thing
Boss man said work your way
Put if off for another day
I’m not listening tomorrow may not come
Lazy men find an easy way
Easy work for easy pay
I’m not listening there ain’t no such a thing as that

Hey man (yo)
Do you think they’re listening
To a thing? (no no no)
I wonder what’s on their mind.
We all should (go)
Break down the walls being built around us.
We’ll make a (show)
Make it for our sons and our daughters.

Nothing’s gonna change my mind,
I’m walkin’ a different highway.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’m travelin’ a different line.
Oh, nothing’s gonna change my mind.
You’ll find what you need if you want it.
Nothing’s gonna change my mind.
I’ll find mine."

Nothing Short Of Thankful - Avett Brothers

Lonely

"I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don't know why, some people fill the gaps and others emphasize my loneliness. In reality those who satisfy me are those who simply allow me to live with my idea of them."
- Anaïs Nin

Reading

"One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining."

- Garrison Keillor

Hibernating

"You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken."

- Anais Nin

Words

"I am influenced by words and the chewiness of language"
- Annie Proulx

Sleep

"Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion."
- Audrey Niffenegger  'The Time Traveler's Wife'

Feelings

“It is difficult for a woman to define her feelings in a language which is chiefly made by men to express theirs.”
- Thomas Hardy

Ten Thousand Words

"Ten thousand words swarm around my head

Ten million more in books written beneath my bed

I wrote or read them all when searchin' in the swarms

Still can't find out how to hold my hands

And I know you need me in the next room over

But I am stuck in here all paralyzed

For months I got myself in ruts

Too much time spent in mirrors framed in yellow walls

Ain't it like most people? I'm no different

We love to talk on things we don't know about

Ain't it like most people? I'm no different

We love to talk on things we don't know about

And everyone around me shakes their head in disbelief

And says I'm too caught up

They say young is good and old is fine

And truth is cool but all that matters

Is that you have your good times

But their good times come with prices

And I can't believe it when I hear the jokes they make

At anyone's expese except their own

Would they laugh if they knew who paid?

Ain't it like most people? I'm no different

We love to talk on things we don't know about

Ain't it like most people? I'm no different

We love to talk on things we don't know about

And after we are through ten years

Of making it to be the most of glorious day dues

I'll come back home without my things

'Cause the clothes I wore out there I will not wear 'round you

And they'll be quick to point out our shortcommings

And how the experts all have had their doubts

Ain't it like most people? I'm no different

We love to talk on things we don't know about"

Ten Thousand Words - Avett Brothers

It's Lovely

"It’s lovely to know that the world can’t interfere with the inside of your head."
- Frank McCourt - Angela's Ashes

Surface Noise

Somebody was trying to tell me that CDs are better than vinyl because they don't have any surface noise. I said, "Listen, mate, LIFE has surface noise."
- John Peel

Bella Donna

Baby, I asked you not to keep me waiting
I told you not to keep me waiting
Now the afternoon is fading on

Donna, Bella Donna have you seen me
And have you ever really seen me
Like I want for you to see me now

Lonesome, like you were when you were sixteen
When maybe even if I weren't listening
Did I help when I was kissing you

Donna, Bella Donna are you listening
And were you ever really listening
Like I want for you to listen now

Bella Donna - Avett Brothers

Time

"Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears it away, and in the end there is only darkness. Sometimes we find others in that darkness, and sometimes we lose them there again."
- The Green Mile - Stephen King

Lover's Eyes

Love was kind for a time
But now just leaks and it makes me blind
This mirror holds my eyes too bright
I can't see the others in my life
Were we too young
And heads too strong
To bear the weight of these lover's eyes

'Cause I feel numb beneath your tongue
Beneath the curse of these lover's eyes

But do not ask the price I pay
I must live with my quiet rage
Tame the ghosts in my head
That run wild and wish me dead
Should you shake my ash to the wind
Lord forget all of my sins
Well let me die where I lie
'Neath the curse of my lover's eyes

'Cause there's no drink
Or drug I've tried
To rid the curse of these lover's eyes
And I feel numb beneath your tongue
Your strength just makes me feel less strong

But do not ask the price I pay
I must live with my quiet rage
Tame the ghosts in my head
That run wild and wish me dead
Should you shake my ash to the wind
Lord forget all of my sins
Well let me die where I lie
'Neath the curse of my lover's eyes

I walk slow
I walk slow
Take my hand
Help me on my way

Lover's Eyes - Mumford & Sons

Where

Where you invest your love you invest your life

Everybody

"Everybody needs someone to know who they really are."

- J.T Leroy

Stop

What stops me from doing what i want to do...?

Myself

Even i don't understand myself so how can i ever expect others to?

All Those Yesterdays

"Don't you think you ought to rest?

Don't you think you ought to lay your head down?

Don't you think you want to sleep?

Don't you think you ought to lay your head down tonight?

Don't you think you've done enough?

Oh, don't you think you've got enough, well maybe.

You don't think there's time to stop

There's time enough for you to lay your head down tonight

Let it wash away

All those yesterdays

What are you running from?

Taking pills to get along

Creating walls to call your own

So no-one catches you drifting off and

Doing all the things that we all do

Let them wash away

All those yesterdays

All those yesterdays

All those paper plates

You've got time, you've got time to escape

There's still time, it's no crime to escape

It's no crime to escape, it's no crime to escape

There's still time, so escape

It's no crime, crime.

All those yesterdays" 

All Those Yesterdays - Pearl Jam

If

“If you do what you've always done, you'll get what you've always gotten.”

- Anthony Robbins