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A man is rich in proportion to the number of things he can afford to let alone.

People are strange: They are constantly angered by trivial things, but on a major matter like totally wasting their lives, they hardly seem to notice.

(Source: haereticum, via randomactsofchaos)

If you don’t feel that you are possibly on the edge of humiliating yourself, of losing control of the whole thing, then probably what you are doing isn’t very vital.

John Irving (via therevolutionwillbeblogged)

This is comforting.

(via gobe)

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It’s all very well to run around saying regulation is bad, get the government off our backs, etc. Of course, our lives are regulated. When you come to a stop sign, you stop; if you want to go fishing, you get a license; if you want to shoot ducks, you can shoot only three ducks. The alternative is dead bodies at the intersection, no fish, and no ducks. OK?

(via other-stuff)

We can judge our progress by the courage of our questions and the depth of our answers, our willingness to embrace what is true rather than what feels good.

(Source: evanholm, via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)

Growth for the sake of growth is the ideology of the cancer cell.

Travel is not reward for working, it’s education for living.

(via jbe200)

The two most important days in your life are the day you are born, and the day you find out why.

(via pieceinthepuzzlehumanity)

We can’t solve problems by using the same kind of thinking we used when we created them.