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May 7

“The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe. If you try it, you will be lonely often, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself.” Friedrich Nietzsche (via kellietab)

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Mar 19

“There’s only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that’s your own self.” Aldous Huxley (1894-1963)

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Mar 12

“Because one believes in oneself, one doesn’t try to convince others. Because one is content with oneself, one doesn’t need others’ approval. Because one accepts oneself, the whole world accepts him or her.” Lao Tzu (via cosmofilius)

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Feb 20

“Maybe it’s just in America, but it seems that if you’re passionate about something, it freaks people out. You’re considered bizarre or eccentric. To me, it just means you know who you are.” Tim Burton (via 13thmoon)

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Feb 3

“The point is that… rock ‘n’ roll is an arena in which you recreate yourself, and all this blathering about authenticity is just a bunch of crap.”

Lester Bangs (via andimustscream) (via quote-book) (via themusicjunkies, dimwittgenstein)

I can not stress enough how much I agree with this. Stop trying to fit in or meet some invisible criteria that make you feel more accepted. Tear down the walls, raise hell, and burn everything.

Feb 1

“What I learned from Naoko’s death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Hearing the waves at night, listening to the sound of the wind, day after day I focused on these thoughts of mine.”
Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

“What I learned from Naoko’s death was this: no truth can cure the sorrow we feel from losing a loved one. No truth, no sincerity, no strength, no kindness can cure that sorrow. All we can do is see it through to the end and learn something from it, but what we learn will be no help in facing the next sorrow that comes to us without warning. Hearing the waves at night, listening to the sound of the wind, day after day I focused on these thoughts of mine.”

Haruki Murakami - Norwegian Wood

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Jan 28

“Life has become immeasurably better since I have been forced to stop taking it seriously.” Hunter S. Thompson (via gnngoodquotes)

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Jan 21

“How do you show that you like your fans? You don’t ding ‘em for money every possible chance you get. You make the CD’s long and you add a lot of cool bonus cuts. You don’t charge 50 bucks for a T-Shirt. You charge a little bit more than what you make off it. When kids download your stuff for free off the internet and they tell you about it, you don’t get mad at ‘em. My parting line is ‘Pal, I’d rather be heard than paid.’ So if you wanna steal my stuff you go ahead and do to me what record labels have been doing to me for- now, now you get to play the man! Good for you! But am I gonna come after you like Lars Ulrich, demanding my 35 cents? No, man. You know, if you can’t afford to listen to my music and you gotta get it off the internet, at least you’re rockin.”

Henry Rollins. (x)

This is one of the many reasons why I love him.

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Jan 14

“Men profess to be lovers of music, but for the most part they give no evidence in their opinions and lives that they have heard it.” Henry David Thoreau (via themusicjunkies)

Jan 13

“Normality is a paved road: It’s comfortable to walk, but no flowers grow on it.” Vincent van Gogh (via mortuaire)

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