You will receive plenty of Special Invitations in your life: those moments where you are invited to embark on an adventure, where the universe seems to beckoning you with its finger and saying, Come here and try this. Will you sit on your sofa eating pizza and thinking that adventure is not for you?

My ears hear what others cannot hear; small faraway things people cannot normally see are visible to me. These senses are the fruits of a lifetime of longing, longing to be rescued, to be completed. Just as the skirt needs the wind to billow, I'm not formed by things that are of myself alone. I wear my father's belt tied around my mother's blouse, ( Read more... )

enlightenment is losing your mind

Most people spend their weekends drinking, or fucking. I spend mine painting.. Though if I'm lucky, all three ;)
Fortunately this looks better in reality.


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and the world spins madly on

I once read that the way that you can tell if you're making progress in life is not that you don't have any problems, just that you have different problems than last year.

"a guy and a girl can be just friends, but at one point or another, they will fall for each other... maybe temporarily, maybe at the wrong time, maybe too late, or maybe forever."

(500 days of summer)

koska tänään sataa
minä olen surullinen 
ja ensi viikolla  minä menen kotiin.
mitä nyt tapahtuu?
minä syön, juon, nukuun, ja odotan.

“You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it-it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk.

But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.

And if sometimes, on the steps of a palace or the green grass of a ditch, in the ( Read more... )

Go for broke.

Always try and do too much.

Dispense with safety nets.

Take a deep breath before you begin talking.

Aim for the stars.

Keep grinning.

Be bloody-minded.

Argue with the world.

And
never forget that writing is as close as we get to keeping a hold on
the thousand and one things-childhood, certainties, cities, doubts,
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