#non

The nature of life is mess, chaotic, exquisitely beautiful, excruciatingly painful, immensely joy-filled, and unpredictable. ↗

— Debra Moffitt

#happiness #joy #life #non-fiction-books-inspirational #pain

You know, it's really strange now with the Internet, with everyone having an unsolicited, anonymous opinion. ↗

— Jeff Daniels

#everyone #having #internet #know #now

It was a spring day, the sort that gives people hope: all soft winds and delicate smells of warm earth. Suicide weather. ↗

— Susanna Kaysen

#spring

Lebanon: the country where everyone wants a piece while we want peace. ↗

— Sandra Chami Kassis

#country #lebanon #life #peace #politics

And God created every living creature that now moveth, and one was man. Mud as man alone could speak. God leaned close as mud as man sat up, looked around, and spoke. Man blinked. “What is the purpose of all this?” he asked politely. “Everything must have a purpose?” asked God. “Certainly,” said man. “Then I leave it to you to think of one for all this,” said God. And He went away. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#creation #life #purpose-of-life #life

At Starbucks I like ordering a “Tall venti in a grande cup.” That’s basically me asking for a small large in a medium cup.
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— Jarod Kintz

#barista #coffee #confusion #hassle #large

Rest assured, you make perfectly good nonsense.  I understand you one-hundred-percent not at all. ↗

— Richelle E. Goodrich

#nonsense #richelle #richelle-goodrich #sarcasm #unclear

I want to buy a sports car, because I like riding bicycles. Hold on to my handlebar mustache if you value your life.
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— Jarod Kintz

#life #mustache #non-sequitur #sports-car #value

...for a piece of famous fluffiness that doesn't just pretend about what real lives can be like, but moves on into one of the world's least convincing pretences about what people themselves are like, consider the teased and coiffed nylon monument that is 'Imagine': surely the My Little Pony of philosophical statements. John and Yoko all in white, John at the white piano, John drifting through the white rooms of a white mansion, and all the while the sweet drivel flowing. Imagine there's no heaven. Imagine there's no hell. Imagine all the people, living life in - hello? Excuse me? Take religion out of the picture, and everybody spontaneously starts living life in peace? I don't know about you, but in my experience peace is not the default state of human beings, any more than having an apartment the size of Joey and Chandler's is. Peace is not the state of being we return to, like water running downhill, whenever there's nothing external to perturb us. Peace between people is an achievement, a state of affairs we put together effortfully in the face of competing interests, and primate dominance dynamics, and our evolved tendency to cease our sympathies at the boundaries of our tribe. ↗

— Francis Spufford

#imagine #lennon #peace #unapologetic #experience

I keep hearing about a spiritual awakening, but I feel what we need instead is a human one. It would be wonderful and empowering to become free from the disillusionment and nonsense being sold to us from gurus for centuries. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#humanity #life #nonsense #spirituality #experience