“Reading is the sole means by which we slip, involuntarily, often helplessly, into another’s skin, another’s voice, another’s soul.”
—Joyce Carol Oates (via contrive)
March 2011
February 2011
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Hans Zimmer
OSCAR WINNER IN MY HEART
I refuse to believe hans zimmer didn’t win.
and I will never NOT reblog this song to death.
A Beautiful Mind
I cannot believe I have not seen this movie until now. All the time you hear of movies regarded for how excellent and riveting they are, but rarely do I hear of A Beautiful Mind. Perhaps it is because I simply am not paying attention at the time or that a movie from 2002 is simply too old of a movie and not cool enough as today’s over exaggerated CGI in sacrifice of an amazing plot.
A Beautiful Mind simply soared above my expectations. I had expected much of it after hearing high praise from friends, and I was not disappointed in the least. I feel that today’s movies are often produced at a whim to simply raise revenue but at the cost of adding depth to the film. This movie was not one of those films.
For those of you who have not seen the film, it chronicles the life of an extraordinary man, John Nash, challenged with extraordinary circumstances. John strives to live his life while being ravaged from the own constraints of his mind. For him, reality is one with imagination; nightmares fuse with wondrous dreams. Driven by love and helped by the care of his loved ones, John takes a journey into the depths of his mind and faces the terrors that await him.
The movie is not short on suspense nor action and is well supported with humor and drama; it has simply blown my mind. Perhaps I may be exaggerating the true quality of A Beautiful Mind, but then again, I hope to whomever reads this to watch it for yourself and see if I am proven otherwise.
“Perhaps it is good to have a beautiful mind, but an even greater gift is to discover a beautiful heart.”
—John Nash - A Beautiful Mind
“Nothing’s ever for sure, John. That’s the only sure thing I do know.”
—Charles - A Beautiful Mind
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Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies.
He who has faith has… an inward reservoir of courage, hope, confidence, calmness, and assuring trust that all will come out well - even though to the world it may appear to come out most badly.
” —(via eilatanthl)
South Korea Drops Leaflets about Egypt/Libya into North Korea →
reuters.com
maybe we’ll see the end of an oppressive government with this? good luck south korea :]
“Chlorine is my perfume.”
—Anonymous
“There comes a point in your life when you realize that nothing will ever be the same, and you realize that from now on time will be divided into two parts — before this and after this.”
—(via poeticheartache) (via poeticheartache) (via metallic-effects) (via yunzi) (via soopjoop)
“If you have a lane, you have a chance.”
—Anonymous
“I always wanted to be Peter Pan, the boy who never grows up. I can’t fly, but swimming is the next best thing. It’s harmony and balance. The water is my sky.”
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Clayton Jones (via swimthefly)
Truth right here
“In order to change we must be sick and tired of being sick and tired.”
—Anonymous
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“Everyone must leave something behind when he dies, my grandfather said. A child or a book or a painting or a house or a wall built or a pair of shoes made. Or a garden planted. Something your hand touched some way so your soul has somewhere to go when you die, and when people look at that tree or that flower you planted, you’re there. It doesn’t matter what you do, he said, so long as you change something from the way it was before you touched it into something that’s like you after you take your hands away. The difference between the man who just cuts lawns and a real gardener is in the touching, he said. The lawn-cutter might just as well not have been there at all; the gardener will be there a lifetime.”
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Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via asthesaprisesinthetrees)
Loved this book
