(Source: cvntpunt)
Via, zakatechichi
I got to be true to myself!
May 12
And though in all lands, love is now mingled with grief, it still grows, perhaps, the greater.
(Source: filisbracers)
Via, purewellbeing
May 11
Change is the essence of life. Be willing to surrender what you are for what you could become.
— Reinhold Niebuhr (via -fuckthepeople)
(Source: quotestuff)
Via, -fuckthepeople
One day, when he was filming the trucks that transported animals to slaughter, his gaze encountered that of a pig. “Our eyes locked together. And it was like he was asking, why are you doing this to me? And I kept thinking, I don’t know. I don’t know why we do these things to you. I started asking, is the slaughterhouse the problem, or is who is getting killed in the slaughterhouse the problem? Because if it were Jews who were getting killed, people would be screaming bloody murder. If dogs and cats were being treated this way, most people would be screaming bloody murder. But if it’s cows, pigs, chickens, turkeys − that’s okay. That’s the way it’s meant to be. Well, it’s not okay. It’s a horrible, vicious world that humans made.
— Gary Yourofsky (via hippiehearts)
Via, from-meat-to-bean
May 09
- Klaus: There is a word in German: Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. And the closest translation would be…’Lifelong Treasure of destiny’ Victoria is wunderbar, but she is not my Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz. She is my Beinaheleidenschaftsgegenstand you know? It means “the thing that is almost the thing that you want but is not quite.” That is Victoria to me.
- Ted: How do you know she’s not Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz? I mean, maybe as the years go by, she’ll get Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz-ier.
- Klaus: Lebenslangerschicksalsschatz is not something that develops over time. It is something that happens instantaneously. It courses through you like the water of a river after a storm, filling you and emptying you all at once. You feel it throughout your body, in your hands, in your heart, in your stomach, in your skin. Have you ever felt this way about someone?
- Ted: Yeah, I think so.
- Klaus: If you have to think about it, you have not felt it.
- Ted: And you’re absolutely sure you’ll find that someday?
- Klaus: Of course. Everyone does eventually. You just don’t know when or where.
Via, gab-kun
May 04
If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.
— Cicero (via wethinkwedream)
(Source: cosmicroots)
Via, zakatechichi
May 03
May 01
CAN WE TALK ABOUT THIS?
I mean, can we just talk about how this parallels the actual education system? Where they’re so concerned about teaching us things like logarithms and graphing that we don’t know shit about what’s actually out there in the adult world, like doing taxes or writing checks or anything? I mean, “It is the view of the Ministry that a theoretical knowledge will be sufficient to get you through your examinations, which after all, is what school is all about.” School children are often under the impression that getting A’s in all their classes ensures a successful future, but really, it’s so ignorant because the real world isn’t just one big question-and-answer paper. There is so much more to the world than being able to give back information like some kind of super-computer, and brainwashing children into thinking that theory is key is just going to lead to a bunch of children falling flat on their faces when they’re pushed into the adult world and feel as if everything new they try to do is wrong because it wasn’t taught to them step-by-step. I just really love Harry’s line, “And how is theory supposed to prepare us for what’s out there?” because I feel as if sometimes we just learn things for the sake of knowing them, despite whether it is actually useful. Yes, school is important, and getting bad grades isn’t a good way to start your future, but it’s so much more than that, you see.
this sounds a lot like something Hermione would say
I think that’s the reason why everyone has such strong negative feelings toward Umbridge (as a person, not a character). I can’t tell you how many times I heard people say that they wanted Umbridge to die more than Voldemort. And I must say that I feel the same.
Voldemort is a racist dictator. While these have existed, and still do, the majority of us don’t live under such a tyrant. We’ve heard about them in history books and on the news- but they’re already dead or on the other side of the world. While we can be horrified at the terror such a person can spread and how, well, evil they can be, a character of this archetype doesn’t strike a personal chord with most of us.
But Umbridge does. As stated before, she represents everything that we hate about the public school system. Most of us know or have a teacher, professor, principal, or school administrator who, to probably a lesser degree, personifies what Umbridge is saying. They teach only to the test, or tell teachers to do so, they insist on including useless things in their curriculums, they PASS LAWS SO THAT SUCH A SCHOOL SYSTEM CAN CONTINUE. This is something that affects nearly every public school in the US, (and I’m guessing the UK as well). Nearly every student has to go through school learning things that they will never use in real life and that in no way prepare them for the real world, just so the various boards of education can use the higher test scores as ‘proof’ that we’re ‘smarter’ than other states, countries, etc., and therefore deserve more funding.
We hate Umbridge so much (again, as a person, not a character) because she represents a villain we all have in our own lives. Possibly every single person who has read this book can connect with the frustration Harry and the other students feel.
We hate Umbridge so much because everything she is, everything she represents, is very real and very personal to every single one of us.
(Source: dracoharrys)
Via, purewellbeing
Apr 28
Apr 26
photographs of american teenagers taken by joseph szabo, 1969-1988.
this
is
perfect
Via, -fuckthepeople
Apr 25
