"Ти си тъй млад, тъй далече от всяко едно начало, че искам да те помоля да имаш търпение към всичко, което още не е решено в сърцето ти, да се опиташ да обикнеш самите въпроси като стегнати и свободни строфи, написани на съвсем непознат език. Не търси днес отговори, които няма как да ти бъдат дадени, защото не можеш да ги изживееш. Точно за това става дума: да изживееш всичко. Сега живей с въпросите. И може би тъй малко по малко, неусетно, ще се приближиш към онзи далечен ден, когато ще изживееш отговора. "
Р. М. Рилке, „Писма до един млад поет “
“You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.”
Dear Sugar, The Rumpus
“Isn't it also that on some fundamental level we find it difficult to understand that other people are human beings in the same way that we are? We idealize them as gods or dismiss them as animals.”
“I always thought of it like you said, that all the strings inside him broke. But there are a thousand ways to look at it: maybe the strings break, or maybe our ships sink, or maybe we’re grass—our roots so interdependent that no one is dead as long as someone is alive. We don’t suffer from a shortage of metaphors, is what I mean. But you have to be careful which metaphor you choose, because it matters. If you choose the strings, then you’re imagining a world in which you can become irreparably broken. If you choose the grass, you’re saying that we are all infinitely interconnected, that we can use these root systems not only to understand one another but to become one another. The metaphors have implications."
“Leaving feels good and pure only when you leave something important, something that mattered to you. Pulling life out by the roots. But you can't do that until your life has grown roots.”
Paper Towns, John Green
Нед Окт 06, 2013 9:12 pm by tokyodr1ft3r
