The Martian ( Read more... )

Life beats down and crushes the soul and art reminds you that you have one ( Read more... )

A child can teach an adult three things: to be happy for no reason, to always be busy with something, and to know how to demand with all his might that which he desires ( Read more... )

If I accept the other person as something fixed, already diagnosed and classified, already shaped by his past, then I am doing my part to confirm this limited hypothesis. If I accept him as a process of becoming, then I am doing what I can to confirm or make real his potentialities ( Read more... )

What I’ve come to learn is that the world is never saved in grand messianic gestures, but in the simple accumulation of gentle, soft, almost invisible acts of compassion ( Read more... )

You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You’re on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the one who’ll decide where to go ( Read more... )

“The minute I heard my first love story, I started looking for you, not knowing how blind that was. Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere ( Read more... )

Sweet shit I was going to say I hate the new friends page. But that's because LJ had logged me out and that was some generic feed only strangers see ( Read more... )

"TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness ( Read more... )

Love isn't an emotion or an instinct-it's an art ( Read more... )