I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.
– Haruki Murakami, Sputnik Sweetheart
Tag: think
I have cried
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
I may not have gone …
I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be.
– Douglas Adams, The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Have you tried talking to her?
“Have you tried talking to her?”
“No. We’ve been punching her in the face repeatedly. What? You don’t think that will work?”
– Cassandra Clare, City of Glass
If you only read …
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading,
you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
― Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood
I don’t think anybody ..-
I don’t think anybody’s necessarily ready for death.
You can only hope that when it approaches,
you feel like you’ve said what you wanted to say.
Nobody wants to go out in mid-sentence.
– Johnny Depp
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
Pen and paper
Thank god I got pen and paper.
If I would say out loud what I think
some people would kill me.
If I would whisper the feelings i have
even my friends would turn their backs on me.
If I would do what I want to
the police would put me in jail forever.
If I would show what the world means to me
the doctors would lock me away.
So I write all those things down.
On this all patient paper.
With this emotionless pen.
Just to lock those sheets away.
Far away from myself.
All what I am.
Put away in that safe place.
Where even I can’t reach it.
Gone for good.
So that I can walk straight out of the front door.
See all the things I just wrote about.
And still being able to smile.
– sanados
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
Early but late
We arrived early.
Just minutes passed since we got that call.
A man was standing at the entrance.
It seems that he was waiting to show us in.
I bet he did not think we arrive that soon.
He hasn’t recognized us yet.
Once again we sounded the martin’s horn
and entered the driveway.
Jumping out of the ambulance car
everyone of us grabbed a bag.
We managed to pass the distance to the man in just some seconds.
Already with tons of questions about what happened as we approached him.
Then we came to a halt and calmed down.
We didn’t need to hurry that much.
Minutes passed as we just stood there.
He was not waiting for us.
Not waiting for anything anymore.
We could hardly see the spear through his chest that was keeping him upright.
– sanados
Many people …
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
– Bertrand Russell
Here’s to the …
Here’s to the crazy ones, the misfits, the rebels, the troublemakers, the round pegs in the square holes… the ones who see things differently — they’re not fond of rules… You can quote them, disagree with them, glorify or vilify them, but the only thing you can’t do is ignore them because they change things… they push the human race forward, and while some may see them as the crazy ones, we see genius, because the ones who are crazy enough to think that they can change the world, are the ones who do.
– Steve Jobs