hum

There’ll be no new romance for me
it’s foolish to start
for that old feeling
is still in my heart

Lew Brown

I beseech you, my brothers, remain faithful to the earth, and do not believe those who speak to you of otherworldly hopes!

Friedrich Nietzsche

His desk is at chest height. “I’m a big believer in standing up. I told some of the team at News International the other day that I thought they should get rid of their chairs. They weren’t very happy. It was very funny. They didn’t know whether to take me seriously.”
All this standing sounds, well, rather tiring. Oh no, he counters, “because, think about it, you sit down when you go home, then you lie down. So you could stand up and walk around for the day.”

James Murdoch

Kurt Cobain relentlessly pushed his favourite bands — whether it was the art punk of the Raincoats or the country-fried hardcore of the Meat Puppets — as if his favourite records were always more important than his own music.

La vita è
un’ esperienza naturale
postura, respiro, unione

The first unhappy song I wrote […] I was ashamed writing a song that was not giving hope.

Björk

For someone committed to the spiritual life, the pain of having committed a serious mistake can be so excruciating that it is hell here on earth.

Eknath Easwaran

Dinnanzi a un bivo, di una strada che va in basso e una che va in alto, prendi sempre quella che va in alto.

Tiziano Terzani