I’ve cried, and you’d think I’d be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
– Conor Oberst
Tag: better
Someday …
Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it.
Maybe I’ll be older and smarter and just plain better. If that happens,
that’s when I’ll deserve you. But now, at this moment, you can’t hook
your boat to mine, because I’m liable to sink us both.
– Gabrielle Zevin
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Act like an …
Act like an adult but laugh inside like the child that you are.
No one ever grows up.
You just get better at hiding.
– sanados
A lot of …
A lot of photographers think that if they buy a better camera theyll be able to take better photographs. A better camera wont do a thing for you if you dont have anything in your head or in your heart.
– Arnold Newman
Before you …
Before you release your arrow,
do not think about what you are doing.
Learn to wait.
Be free of yourself.
Leave behind who you are and all that you possess,
so that all that remains of you is pure tension,
without any goal.
Look at the bamboo leaf as under the weight of the snow
it bends further and further down.
The snow falls suddenly from it without the leaf having moved.
Be like the leaf.
Until the tension is maximum,
and the arrow is released,
because when the tension is maximum,
the arrow MUST leave ;
your shot must leave you just as the snow leaves the bamboo leaf “.
There is no better description of pure action and the state of mind it requires.
– one of the last grand masters of Kyudo
– Suzuki
What thing …
What thing better are you, what worse?
What have you to do with the mysteries
of this ancient place, of my ancient curse?
What place have you in my histories?
– D. H. Lawrence
So if you want …
So if you want either of us to feel anything at all
you’d better abandon all idea of feelings altogether.
– D. H. Lawrence
… and i do …
… and i do not care,
though the large hands of revenge shall get my throat at lastt,
shall get it soon,
if the joy that they are lifted to avenge have risen red on my night as a harvest moon,
which even death can only put out for me;
And death, I know, is better than not-to-be.
– D. H. Lawrence