You can't save your youth anyway. Fight.
One of the best scenes Disney ever animated.
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You see I’d like to have you not just like me in bed but like me in the head and like to talk about things that interest us both.
Ernest Hemingway, The Complete Short Stories (via wordsnquotes)
Source: thelovejournals.com
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“Love compels us to do things for others that they can do themselves”
Gtfo, done with him.
“I think the most common misconception is that Shakespeare is something for the academics. If he were around today, it would have been something that really upset him because Shakespeare and a lot of contemporaries weren’t academics. He was a glove-maker from rural Stratford in England where he didn’t have the same opportunities like a lot of contemporaries, and yet, he rose to success because he was a man of the people. He gave the common man a voice. Before Shakespeare, most of the plays were concerned with the aristocracy, with the privileged, with royalty. And what Shakespeare also represented to the people, he tried to give voice to the lower classes and, also very importantly, to women. Some of the best characters in the Shakespeare plays are the women. Lady Macbeth, for one, is an absolute powerhouse.” — Laurie Davidson for TNT’s Will
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@ me at every restaurant
It has always been the prime function of mythology and rite to supply the symbols that carry the human spirit forward, in counteraction to those that tend to tie it back. In fact, it may very well be that the very high incidence of neuroticism among ourselves follows the decline among us of such effective spiritual aid.The first work of the hero is to retreat from the world scene of secondary effects to those causal zones of the psyche where the difficulties really reside, and there to clarify the difficulties, eradicate them in his own case (i.e., give battle to the nursery demons of his local culture) and break through to the undistorted, direct experience and assimilation of what [Carl] Jung called “the archetypal images.
Joseph Campbell
The best “hello, sweetie” in the Hello, Sweetie catalogue.
Did you notice I’ve been ashamed all my life? I’ve been playing games.
A condition of friendship, is the abdication of power over another, indeed the abdication even of the wish for power over one another. As soon as a friend attempts to control a friend, the friendship ceases to exist.
