blood and thunder

“ The secret of change is to focus all of your energy, not on fighting the old, but on building the new.

(Source: potterology-, via fuckyeahremussirius)

“ I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.

—

W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)

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I want to go back to Munich some day

Yosemite HD

A ridiculously beautiful time-lapse video of Yosemite National Park, CA. I … can’t even.

softerworld:

A Softer World: 762

(Quit your job. Buy a big knife. Do something!)

“ For what it’s worth: it’s never too late to be whoever you want to be. I hope you live a life you’re proud of, and if you find that you’re not, I hope you have the strength to start all over again.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald (via katyjean)

(via thelevitatingwaterbendingtardis)

“ It is a curious emotion, this certain homesickness I have in mind. It is no simple longing for the home town or country of our birth. The emotion is Janus-faced: we are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

— Carson McCullers (via psychotherapy)

softerworld:

A Softer World: 754

(because you’ll be dead.)

Happy new year, team!

Nothing but the best for you all in 2012. However your 2011 turned out, make your 2012 better.

“ What you’re imagining right now, that world you control? That place can be as real as any pain.

— Sucker Punch