ricky

dudeee, not pursuing curiosity is like so fucking slop why wouldn't you pursue your curiosity fuck

“There is a time in every man’s education when he arrives at the conviction that envy is ignorance; that imitation is suicide.” —Ralph Waldo Emerson

“I tell you: one must still have chaos in one, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in you.” ―Friedrich Nietzsche

”Not I, not any one else can travel that road for you, You must travel it for yourself. It is not far . . . . it is within reach, Perhaps you have been on it since you were born, and did not know, Perhaps it is every where on water and on land.“ —Walt Whitman

“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer.” —Henry David Thoreau, Walden

“The problem with introspection is that it has no end.” ―Philip K. Dick

i’ve noticed countless times that the metric I invent to measure others, i sneakily end up using against myself. i think human mind is fairly primitive in how it demarcates self and other.

“The nice thing about having a brain is that one can learn, that ignorance can be supplanted by knowledge, and that small bits of knowledge can gradually pile up into substantial heaps.” —Douglas Hofstadter

“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.” ―Iris Murdoch

“What is freedom of expression? Without the freedom to offend, it ceases to exist.” ―Salman Rushdie

“Is it better for a man to have chosen evil than to have good imposed upon him?” ―Anthony Burgess

“People have separated from each other with walls of concrete that blocked the roads to connection and love. Nature has been defeated in the name of development.” ―Yasunari Kawabata

“I suggest that the only books that influence us are those for which we are ready, and which have gone a little further down our particular path than we have yet gone ourselves.” ―E.M. Forster

“Where can we hide in fair weather, we orphans of the storm?” ―Evelyn Waugh

“We work in the dark - we do what we can - we give what we have. Our doubt is our passion, and our passion is our task. The rest is the madness of art.” —Henry James

“Creative activity is a type of learning process where the teacher and pupil are located in the same individual.” ―Arthur Koestler

“The greatest victory is that which requires no battle.” ―Sun Tzu, The Art of War

instead of sandwiching spaciousness between work, you ideally want to sandwich work between spaciousness

“The absence of limitations is the enemy of art.” ―Orson Welles

“Life should not be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving safely in a pretty and well preserved body, but rather to skid in broadside in a cloud of smoke, thoroughly used up, totally worn out, and loudly proclaiming "Wow! What a Ride!” ―Hunter S. Thompson

“What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?” ―Ralph Ellison