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Quantum physicists have postulated that the way we experience time is an illusion - that it doesn’t happen in a linear way…that past and present, in reality, there’s no difference.
Temperance Brennan, Bones, “The Male in the Mail” 2011
We are not the radicals. The radicals are the ones who are changing the chemical composition of the atmosphere for money.
Bill McKibben (via socialuprooting)
(Reblogged from socialuprooting)
Adjectives matter.
Greg House

There are two means of refuge from the miseries of life:  music and cats. 

~Albert Schweitzer

Never, never be afraid to do what’s right, especially if the well-being of a person or animal is at stake. Society’s punishments are small compared to the wounds we inflict on our soul when we look the other way.
Martin Luther King Jr.  (via shelivesquietly)
(Reblogged from aleksandur)

“Leonardo da Vinci studied, sketched, and adored cats, and is quoted as saying, “the smallest feline is a masterpiece”.”

The radical invents the views. When he has worn them out the conservative adopts them.
Mark Twain (via drinkthe-koolaid)
(Reblogged from drinkthe-koolaid)
And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.
Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
(Reblogged from kari-shma)
As I am finding out, principle is only principle when it aligns with one’s personal belief. Sort of like…religion.

@vcthree

Profoundly true.

Debating creationists on the topic of evolution is rather like trying to play chess with a pigeon; it knocks the pieces over, craps on the board, and flies back to its flock to claim victory.
Scott D. Weitzenhoffer (via thesheeportheshepherd) (via therecipe)
(Reblogged from therecipe)
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
(Reblogged from gabbytron)
I always was a rebel…but on the other hand, I wanted to be loved and accepted…and not just be a loudmouth, lunatic, poet, musician. But I cannot be what I am not.
John Lennon (via littlewhitebewk) (via meanmoodyandmagnificent) (via livelovelennon) (via redguard)
The Christian god can easily be pictured as virtually the same god as the many ancient gods of past civilizations. The Christian god is a three headed monster; cruel, vengeful and capricious. If one wishes to know more of this raging, three headed beast-like god, one only needs to look at the caliber of people who say they serve him. They are always of two classes: fools and hypocrites.
Thomas Jefferson, 1813 (via savagemike)
(Reblogged from drinkthe-koolaid)