June 2011
“Have patience with everything that remains unsolved in your heart. Try to love the questions themselves, like locked rooms and like books written in a foreign language. Do not now look for the answers. They cannot now be given to you because you could not live them. It is a question of experiencing everything. At present you need to live the question. Perhaps you will gradually, without even noticing it, find yourself experiencing the answer, some distant day.”
—Rainer Maria Rilke, “Letters to a Young Poet”
“Blu is the only MC in the game that scares me, I sit and listen to his raps and hope they’re not better than mine”
—Lupe Fiasco (via somofosoulful)
“To laugh often and love much; to win the respect of intelligent persons and the affection of children; to earn the approbation of honest citizens and endure the betrayal of false friends; to appreciate beauty; to find the best in others; to give of one’s self; to leave the world a bit better, whether by a healthy child, a garden patch or a redeemed social condition; to have played and laughed with enthusiasm and sung with exultation; to know even one life has breathed easier because you have lived - this is to have succeeded.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Compassion hurts. When you feel connected to everything, you also feel responsible for everything. And you cannot turn away. Your destiny is bound with the destinies of others. You must either learn to carry the Universe or be crushed by it. You must grow strong enough to love the world, yet empty enough to sit down at the same table with its worst horrors.”
—Andrew Boy (via changingmyperspective)
“We have constructed this sick society that steals from orphans and refugees, and treats the lives of poor people no better than that of dogs. We must heal ourselves. At the very least, let us not forget to feel the outrage. It’s not OK.”
—(via 247blink)
