Tuesday, July 24, 2012

currently listening to: beautiful by oliver tank

It is another of the miraculous things about mankind that there is no pain nor passion that does not radiate to the ends of the earth. Let a man in a garret but burn with enough intensity and he will set fire to the world.



Nobody grasped you by the shoulder while there was still time. Now the clay of which you were shaped has dried and hardened, and naught in you will ever awaken the sleeping musician, the poet, the astronomer that possibly inhabited you in the beginning.
- terre des hommes


















“I have no right to say or do anything that diminishes a man in his own eyes. 
What matters is not what I think of him but what he thinks of himself. 
Hurting a man in his dignity is a crime.” 


Sunday, July 22, 2012

currently listening to: cough syrup by young the giant




The one thing that matters is the effort.  It continues, whereas the end to be attained is but an illusion of the climber, as he fares on and on from crest to crest; and once the goal is reached it has no meaning.  

No one understands that you have given everything.  You must give more.  



disappear from your hometown
go and find the people that you know
show them all your good parts
leave town when bad ones start to show
go and wed a woman
a pretty girl that you've never met.
make sure she knows you love her well,
but don't make any other promises.

the weight of lies will bring you down
and follow you to every town
cause nothing happens here that doesn't happen there
so when you run, make sure you run
to something and not away from
cause lies don't need an airplane to chase you anywhere.

i once heard the worse thing
a  man could do is draw a hungry crowd.
tell everyone his name, pride, and confidence
but leaving out his doubt.
i'm not sure i bought those words
when i was young i knew most everything.
these words have never meant so much to anyone
as they now mean to me.