I Posted This On My New Blog But It Deserves Another Look

cow in a meadow!

paradoxical quotes are the best and makes my ne happy.

“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” Banksy.

“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.”  Frank Herbert.

“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” Soren Kierkegaard.  

“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain.   (this rules! think about it!)

“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi.

“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw.

“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ” Zsa Zsa Gabor.

“Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.” Stephen McCranie.  

“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.”  Oscar Wilde.

“It’s weird not to be weird.” John Lennon.

“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” C. JoyBell C.  

“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong. 

“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” Criss Jami.

“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.”  Ellen DeGeneres.

To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida.

“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.”  Michel de Montaigne.

“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Albert Einstein.

“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity”  Stephen King.

“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.”  Tony Schwartz.

“Harder to endure than fresh pain is pain that has already been endured: a reminder that one is not far from who one was.”

— Yiyun Li,  “Dear Friend, from My Life I Write to You in Your Life”

Us Against You (Fredrik Backman)/ Detail of the Fire (Richard Siken)/ Anxious People (Fredrik Backman)

obsessed with the opposite of the childhood friends trope. what if we were just some guys meeting for the first time with like. no significance

just learned about the 3D printed project digital grotesque II and it’s a quite a dream

ON BATHING YOUR LOVER

Ilya Kaminsky, “While the Child Sleeps Sonya Undresses” / Joni Mitchell, All I Want / John Edmonds, “Men Like Us,” New York Times Style Magazine / u/expensivetill9 on Reddit / Mitski, I Will / Benjamin Alire Sáenz, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe / David Hockney, Domestic Scene / Elizabeth Bishop, “The Shampoo” / Homer, The Odyssey

ON FRIENDSHIP

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000) //  Four Friends, 2019 by Salman Toor (b. 1983) //  abandonment (the pair), henri de toulouse-lautrec //  A Summer’s Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer // this post

the raw sexual power of using a semi-colon