"So here’s the thing about changing the world. It turns out that’s not even the question, because you don’t have a choice. You are going to change the world, because that is actually what the world is. You do not pass through this life, it passes through you. You experience it, you interpret it, you act, and then it is different. That happens constantly. You are changing the world. You always have been, and now, it becomes real on a level that it hasn’t been before. You will be so many things, and the one thing that I wish I’d known and want to say is, don’t just be yourself. Be all of yourselves. Don’t just live. Be that other thing connected to death. Be life. Live all of your life. Understand it, see it, appreciate it. And have fun."

– Joss Whedon, speaking to the Wesleyan University graduating class of 2013. 

“I could stay with you forever and never realize the time.”

— Bob Dylan

“The beauty of things must be that they end.”

— Jack Kerouac, Tristessa

“Some of us are becoming the men we wanted to marry.”

— Gloria Steinem

“To love and be loved is to feel the sun from both sides.”

— David Viscott

RE: Rats in Subway Stations

Me: "Do you think there are people who aren’t afraid of them?"
Marla: "I think if you’re not capable of screaming, then you’re an ally."

“I see when men love women, they give them but a little of their lives. But women when they love give everything.”

— Oscar Wilde

“When you’re a little kid you’re a bit of everything; Scientist, Philosopher, Artist. Sometimes it seems like growing up is giving these things up one at a time.”

— The Wonder Years

Annoyance of the Day - "It Used To Be Better..."

If I’m ever in another conversation and someone tries to explain to me that The Simpsons and/or Saturday Night Live “used to be better”, I’m just gonna walk away. I just… I can’t. I refuse to entertain that kind of talk anymore. If that is your only response to a, “Hey, do you like that show?” type question, well, that’s moronic thinking and is usually uttered by someone who’s long given up watching any of the current season of whatever I’m talking about. 

Why does this make me so mad? Well, mainly because people who say this usually have the guise of seeming like an actual fan of said show, but clearly are not. I’m not saying you can’t hate a show’s new stuff, but your opinion cannot be deemed as VALID if you “just don’t care to watch it anymore.” I can only politely ask you to shut up and stop talking, please. 

And I love it when people continue to watch something they love and opinions change over the years, I’ll discuss the ups and downs of something until the cows come home, I really will! Just can’t get over that awful, empty excuse of “it used to be better.”

I read this quote a few years ago, and still love it to death:

“You always hear that the show isn’t as good as it used to be… But people always compare the new shows to the memories of their favorite episodes, back when the show surprised them. You’ve got to have an open mind, and for some people, it’s impossible. Nostalgia clouds their thinking.” – Simpsons creator, Matt Groening, to the Los Angeles Daily News, July 2007

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“It’s easy to cry when you realize that everyone you love will reject you or die.”

— Chuck Palahniuk