Young. Anxious. Cynical Humanist. Free.
I'm getting found and lost, or am too much. And other times too little.
I'm proud and multi-colored, labyrinthed. Often euphoric and scared of falling.
Grateful, and grateful to be. A thousand kinds of blessed.
Reading and writing.
Layered.
I've got an unbelievable family. There could be nothing better.
My sense of humor is cynical and sadistic, sarcastic and hurtful. Hilarious and desensitized.
I love my taste.
I'm all hands and eyes composed of words and webs.
And I love, I love.
My heart, it's got sleeves.
I've got grandiose plans, and in my dreams people kiss my eyelids.
I am a world inside of myself.
QUOTES:
"I swear by my Life and my love of it that I will never live for the sake of another man, nor ask another man to live for the sake of mine."
-Ayn Rand
"Reading and writing are in themselves subversive acts. What they subvert is the notion that things have to be the way they are, that you are alone, that no one has ever felt the way you have."
-Italo Calvino
"Work is love made visible.
And if you cannot work with love but only with distaste, it is better that you should leave your work and sit at the fate of the temple and take alms of those who work with joy."
-Kahlil Gibran
""Do those worshippers of government believe that free persons will cease to act? Does it follow that if we receive no energy from the law, we shall receive no energy at all? Does it follow that if the law is restricted to the function of protecting the free use of our faculties, we will be unable to use our faculties? Suppose that the law does not force us to follow certain forms of religion, or systems of association, or methods of education, or regulations of labor, or regulations of trade, or plans for charity; does it then follow that we shall eagerly plunge into atheism, hermitary, ignorance, misery, and greed? If we are free, does it follow that we shall no longer recognize the power and goodness of God? Does it follow that we shall then cease to associate with each other, to help each other, to love and succor our unfortunate brothers, to study the secrets of nature, and to strive to improve ourselves to the best of our abilities?"
-Bastiat
"We create gods and struggle with them, and they bless us."
-Herman Hesse
"We have this consolation with us, that the harder the conflict, the more glorious the triumph."
-Thomas Paine
"The type and formula of most schemes of philanthropy or humanitarianism is this: A and B put their heads together to decide what C shall be made to do for D. The radical vice of all these schemes, from a sociological point of view, is that C is not allowed a voice in the matter, and his position, character and interests, as well as the ultimate effects on society through C's interests, are entirely overlooked. I call C the Forgotten Man...They therefore ignore entirely the source from which they must draw all energy which they employ into their remedies, and they ignore all the effects on other members of society that they have in view. They are always under the dominion of the superstition of government, and, forgetting that a government produces nothing at all, they leave out of sight the first fact to be remember in all social discussion--that the state cannot get a cent for any man without taking it from some other man, and this latter must be a man who produced and saved it. This latter man is the Forgotten Man."
-William Grahm Sumner
"Power concedes nothing without a demand."
- Frederick Douglas
"It's hard to remember that this day will never come again. That the time is now and the place is here and that there are no second chances at a single moment."
-Jeanette Winterson
"To make collectivism stick in a land that has known the blessings of individualism, you must catch a whole generation in the cradle and forcibly deprive it of tutors who have learned the bourgeois alphabet at their mothers' knees. In a lan...d of republican law this is impossible; no matter how clever or omnipresent the collectivist propaganda may be, a few culture carriers of the old tradition will escape." -Lenin
"A country is in dire straits when a person who wants to produce and succeed by their own will and in their own way is labeled subversive, a criminal, an extremist who is a threat to society"