#not

It's not fair the emphasis put on beauty, or on sexuality. ↗

— Rosanna Arquette

#emphasis #fair #not fair #put #sexuality

Tell me something, Mari—do you believe in reincarnation?” Mari shakes her head. “No, I don’t think so,” she says. “So you don’t think there’s a life to come?” “I haven’t thought much about it. But it seems to me there’s no reason to believe in a life after this one.” “So once you’re dead there’s just nothing?” “Basically.” “Well, I think there has to be something like reincarnation. Or maybe I should say I’m scared to think there isn’t. I can’t understand nothingness. I can’t understand it and I can’t imagine it.” “Nothingness means there’s absolutely nothing, so maybe there’s no need to understand it or imagine it.” “Yeah, but what if nothingness is not like that? What if it’s the kind of thing that demands that you understand it or imagine it? I mean, you don’t know what it’s like to die, Mari. Maybe a person really has to die to understand what it’s like.” “Well, yeah…,” says Mari. “I get so scared when I start thinking about this stuff,” Korogi says. “I can hardly breathe, and my whole body wants to shrink into a corner. It’s so much easier to just believe in reincarnation. You might be reborn as something awful, but at least you can imagine what you’d look like—a horse, say, or a snail. And even if it was something bad, you might be luckier next time. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#nothingness #reincarnation #imagination

Nothing happens to any man that he is not formed by nature to bear. ↗

— Marcus Aurelius

#bear #formed #happens #man #nature

The body says what words cannot. ↗

— Martha Graham

#cannot #says #words

All the whispering, glaring, pointing and judging makes them no better than whoever or whatever it is they're gossiping about. ↗

— Tiffany King

#gossip #inspirational #judging #life #me

I’ve been trying to stay real and true and proud of who I am, all those ideals of how to look I’ve been trying not to care. But I’m still holding my breath, I ‘m still watching every step. I’m still tip-toeing away, when I’m getting to ashamed of myself. I don’t want to be your letdown, I’m scared like hell I’m not enough. I don’t wanna be your failure anymore. — The Glass Child, Letdown ↗

— Charlotte Eriksson

#angry #charlotte-eriksson #inspiration #letdown #lyrics

But are not the dreams of poets and the tales of travellers notoriously false? ↗

— H. P. Lovecraft

#false #notoriously #poets #tales #travellers

The ladies looked one another over with microscopic carelessness. ↗

— Arthur Baer

#carelessness #ladies #looked #microscopic #over

My exploits are nothing now to the average person. ↗

— David Bailey

#average person #exploits #nothing #now #person

Read. Read all the time. Read as a matter of principle, as a matter of self-respect. Read as a nourishing staple of life.” (Wellesly High School commencement speech, “You Are Not Special”, 6-12) ↗

— Teacher David McCullough

#commencement #graduation #read #reading #you-are-not-special