the second star
February 2012
39 posts
“Look at the trees, look at the birds, look at the clouds, look at the stars… and if you have eyes you will be able to see that the whole existence is joyful. Everything is simply happy. Trees are happy for no reason; they are not going to become prime ministers or presidents and they are not going to become rich and they will never have any bank balance. Look at the flowers - for no reason. It is simply unbelievable how happy flowers are.”
—Osho (via aysula)
“The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
—Oscar Wilde (via praisetothebrave)
“Until they become conscious they will never rebel, and until after they have rebelled they cannot become conscious.”
—George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four (via paperlover)
When you finish reading a book and yes, it has a glorious and wonderful ending but your heart is still ripped out of your chest, stomped on, re-filled with angst fluid then stapled back in because BASICALLY it's like a really close friend just died suddenly.
“The good thing about science is that it’s true whether or not you believe in it.”
—Neil DeGrasse Tyson (via petalsquotesandthorns)
“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are cultivated. For these there are hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty.”
—Oscar Wilde (via insideadreamersmind)
“Be as you wish to seem.”
—Socrates (via thelittlephilosopher)
“To define is to limit.”
—Oscar Wilde (via nomoreundead)
