Life in Poetry

I am stronger than this challenge, and this challenge is making me stronger.

—Modish Prover (via rainydaysandblankets)

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Be contemporary. Have impact. Strive for it. Be of the world. Move it. Be bold, don’t hold back. Then the moment you think you’ve been bold, be bolder. We are all alive today, ever so briefly here now, not then, not ago, not in some dreamworld of a hypothetical future. Whatever you do, you must make it contemporary. Make it matter now. You must give us a new path to tread, even if it carries the footfalls of old soles. You must not be immune to the weird urgency of today.

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Wisdom from Ian Bogost’s commencement address at the University of Iowa, a fine addition to this ongoing archive of timeless advice. Pair with Greil Marcus’s fantastic 2013 School of Visual Arts commencement address.

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I’m attracted to the extreme light and the extreme dark. I’m interested in the human condition and what makes people tick. I’m interested in the things people try to hide.

—Johnny Depp (via creatingaquietmind)

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I can get my head turned by a good-looking guy as much as the next girl. But sexy doesn’t impress me. Smart impresses me, strength of character impresses me. But most of all, I am impressed by kindness. Kindness, I think, comes from learning hard lessons well, from falling and picking yourself up. It comes from surviving failure and loss. It implies an understanding of the human condition, forgives its many flaws and quirks. When I see that in someone, it fills me with admiration.

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Lisa Unger, Beautiful Lies/Below pic via senzual-girl.tumblr

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In a world where people all around us are lying and confusing us, to be honest is a great kindness.

—David Edwards, Burning All Illusions (via dishabillic)

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How inappropriate to call this planet ‘Earth’, when it is clearly ‘Ocean’.

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Arthur C. Clarke (via amandaonwriting)

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Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

—Socrates (via perfect)

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You don’t have to let go of anything. You have to realize that everything has let go of you. You are not attached to anything in reality. Everything will die and change regardless of your love and attachment.

—Lazy Yogi   (via wethinkwedream)

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