Charlotte Eriksson's Blog, page 1389

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"But love doesn’t bring and has never brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant..."

“But love doesn’t bring and has never brought happiness. On the contrary, it’s a constant state of anxiety, a battlefield; it’s sleepless nights, asking ourselves all the time if we’re doing the right thing. Real love is composed of ecstasy and agony.”

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you...

“Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some blunders and absurdities have crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day; you shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.”

"The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive."

“The aim is to balance the terror of being alive with the wonder of being alive.”

- Carlos Castaneda

"Maybe tonight you’re scared of falling, and maybe there’s somebody here or somewhere else you’re..."

“Maybe tonight you’re scared of falling, and maybe there’s somebody here or somewhere else you’re thinking about, worrying over, fretting over, trying to figure out if you want to fall, or how and when you’re gonna land. And I gotta tell you, friends, to stop thinking about the landing, because it’s all about falling.”

- John Green

adwohs:The secret place.This makes me wanna create....

adwohs:

The secret place.

This makes me wanna create. Beautiful. 

It sucks when I find a song that I love because I will listen to it on repeat until I fucking hate...

It sucks when I find a song that I love because I will listen to it on repeat until I fucking hate the whole band

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So this answer will be different every second of every day but...

So this answer will be different every second of every day but right exactly now:

1. To The Lighthouse - Virginia Woolf

2. The Picture of Dorian Gray - Oscar Wilde

3. The Unbearable Lightness Of Being - Milan Kundera

4. A Joseph Campbell Companion

5. Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia - Marya Hornbacher

Bruce Lee had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace....

Bruce Lee had me up to three miles a day, really at a good pace. We’d run the three miles in twenty-one or twenty-two minutes. Just under eight minutes a mile [Note: when running on his own in 1968, Lee would get his time down to six-and-a half minutes per mile]. So this morning he said to me “We’re going to go five.” I said, “Bruce, I can’t go five. I’m a helluva lot older than you are, and I can’t do five.” He said, “When we get to three, we’ll shift gears and it’s only two more and you’ll do it.” I said “Okay, hell, I’ll go for it.” So we get to three, we go into the fourth mile and I’m okay for three or four minutes, and then I really begin to give out. I’m tired, my heart’s pounding, I can’t go any more and so I say to him, “Bruce if I run any more,” –and we’re still running-”if I run any more I’m liable to have a heart attack and die.” He said, “Then die.” It made me so mad that I went the full five miles. Afterward I went to the shower and then I wanted to talk to him about it. I said, you know, “Why did you say that?” He said, “Because you might as well be dead. Seriously, if you always put limits on what you can do, physical or anything else, it’ll spread over into the rest of your life. It’ll spread into your work, into your morality, into your entire being. There are no limits. There are plateaus, but you must not stay there, you must go beyond them. If it kills you, it kills you. A man must constantly exceed his level.”