Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.
– Stephen Colbert (via clevercarousel)

(Source: quote-book, via thefreestyle)

6 months ago  4,417 notes

Dream dreams,
then write them.
Aye, but live them first.
– Samuel Eliot Morison

7 months ago  7 notes

I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime.

I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime.

So many young people have died, so many people of my own age have died, so many old people have died. So many people that were high up have become low. So many people that were low have risen to be high up. So many countries have changed. There has been so much turmoil and tragedy, so many wars, and plagues, so much terrible destruction all over the world.

And yet all these changes are no more real than a dream. When you look deeply, you realize there is nothing that is permanent and constant, nothing, not even the tiniest hair on your body. And this is not a theory, but something you can actually come to know and realize and see, even, with your very own eyes.

—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Courtesy of Rigpa: Glimpse of the Day.

(Source: crashinglybeautiful)

1 year ago  61 notes

It took my lifetime
to finally understand:
home is a person.
–

I think I’ve learned this sooner than my lifetime.

Ditto.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

(via thefreestyle)

1 year ago  2,184 notes

Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes.
– Stephen Colbert (via clevercarousel)

(Source: quote-book, via thefreestyle)

Dream dreams,
then write them.
Aye, but live them first.
– Samuel Eliot Morison

I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime.

I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime.

So many young people have died, so many people of my own age have died, so many old people have died. So many people that were high up have become low. So many people that were low have risen to be high up. So many countries have changed. There has been so much turmoil and tragedy, so many wars, and plagues, so much terrible destruction all over the world.

And yet all these changes are no more real than a dream. When you look deeply, you realize there is nothing that is permanent and constant, nothing, not even the tiniest hair on your body. And this is not a theory, but something you can actually come to know and realize and see, even, with your very own eyes.

—Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche.

Courtesy of Rigpa: Glimpse of the Day.

(Source: crashinglybeautiful)

It took my lifetime
to finally understand:
home is a person.
–

I think I’ve learned this sooner than my lifetime.

Ditto.

Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)

(via thefreestyle)

"Remember, you cannot be both young and wise. Young people who pretend to be wise to the ways of the world are mostly just cynics. Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a rejection of the world because we are afraid it will hurt us or disappoint us. Cynics always say no. But saying “yes” begins things. Saying “yes” is how things grow. Saying “yes” leads to knowledge. “Yes” is for young people. So for as long as you have the strength to, say yes."
"Dream dreams,
then write them.
Aye, but live them first."
I am now seventy-eight years old, and have seen so many, many things during my lifetime.
"It took my lifetime
to finally understand:
home is a person."

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90 Years is a webzine devoted to glimmering art, design, ideas and people.

Look, the way things are going, we might live for 90 years. Or more.

It's a lot of time to fill, and the opiates we used to rely on are wavering.

Time to try something new. We at 90 Years are packing ourselves full of all that glimmers, to heighten our experience instead of dulling ourselves to it.

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