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Rebooting is the key to everything
“Man always gets less than he demands from life”
Jack London, The People of the Abyss
Why complicate life?
“Be thankful that you have a life, and forsake your vain and presumptuous desire for a second one”
Richard Dawkins (via myquotelibrary)
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“Life is a sexually transmitted disease”
R. D. Laing (1927 – 1989)
Wikipedia: He was a scottish psychiatrist who wrote extensively on mental illness – in particular, the experience of psychosis. Laing’s views on the causes and treatment of serious mental dysfunction, greatly influenced by existential philosophy, ran counter to the psychiatric orthodoxy of the day by taking the expressed feelings of the individual patient or client as valid descriptions of lived experience rather than simply as symptoms of some separate or underlying disorder.
“He felt that his whole life was some kind of dream and he sometimes wondered whose it was and whether they were enjoying it”
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (via whizzbees)
(via thesacred-realm)
Life is what happens to you while you’re busy making other plans
John Lennon (1940 -1980)
“Beautiful Boy”
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No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don’t want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life’s change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Right now the new is you, but someday not too long from now, you will gradually become the old and be cleared away.
”Steve Jobs - Stanford commencement speech, June 2005 (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“The aspects of things that are most important for us are hidden because of their simplicity and familiarity. (One is unable to notice something - because it is always before one’s eyes.)”
Ludwig Wittgenstein (via chinamarker)
The Holstee Manifesto
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