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“The symptom of love is when some of the chemicals inside you go bad.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“If something's going to happen for you, it will, you can't make it happen. And it never does happen until you're past the point where you care whether it happens or not. I guess it's for your own good that it always happens that way, because after you stop wanting things is where having them won't m…”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they could just say, 'So what'. That's one of my favorite things to say. So what.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“When people are ready to, they change. They never do it before then, and sometimes they die before they get around to it. You can't make them change if they don't want to, just like when they do want to, you can't stop them.”

— Andy Warhol, Andy Warhol In His Own Words

“They always say time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself.”

— Andy Warhol, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol (From A to B and Back Again)

“I have yet to see a serious act of violence that was not provoked by the experience of feeling shamed or humiliated, disrespected and ridiculed. As children, these men were shot, axed, scalded, beaten, strangled, tortured, drugged, starved, suffocated, set on fire, thrown out of the window, raped, o…”

— Jon Ronson, So You've Been Publicly Shamed

“Today I will lie in bed and drown in salt water. Tomorrow I will remember myself, drink milk to strengthen my bones, sharpen my nails like claws because if I’m supposed to be dangerous might as well play the part, ¿no? If I will be named dangerous, then I will wear it like armor to fight for my righ…”

— Andy Frias, Queer Latinas Share Love, Rage, Sadness and Strength For Our Family Lost in Orlando

“Just how successful are we at seeing the world as others see it? Apparently, we are nowhere near as good as we think we are. In his book ‘Mindwise,’ the psychologist Nicholas Epley discusses experiments in which people were asked to judge the thoughts of strangers. These included asking speed daters…”

— Paul Bloom, Imagining the Lives of Others

“Venus, the planet of love and harmony has been in close vicinity of the sun, since April 26th and will continue to be until 15th July, paving the way for the love revolution when Jupiter enters Libra on September 9th until October 10th, 2017. We can see similarities now to 1969 when Jupiter was in L…”

— Vivienne Micallef-Browne, Get Ready For A Major Shift, Full Moon in Sagittarius 20th June - Expanded Consciousness

“Something is happening to our species, and especially over the last 70 years. The years since 1945 have seen many horrors: the partition of India, China’s Great Leap Forward, the Vietnam War, the Biafran crisis, the Khmer Rouge and the Rwandan genocide, wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria, mass slau…”

— LEIF WENAR, Is Humanity Getting Better?

“Humanity does learn, painfully and often only after thousands or even millions have died — like a giant starfish hurrying over a jagged reef, with only primitive vision, slicing off spines on its way, yet regenerating as it grows and slowly adapting its motion. The currents are pushing the starfish…”

— LEIF WENAR, Is Humanity Getting Better?

“It’s ironic that the people who are most likely to doubt or deny the existence of consciousness (on the ground that everything is physical, and that consciousness can’t possibly be physical) are also those who are most insistent on the primacy of science, because it is precisely science that makes t…”

— Galen Strawson, Consciousness Isn’t a Mystery. It’s Matter.

“Every day, it seems, some verifiably intelligent person tells us that we don’t know what consciousness is. The nature of consciousness, they say, is an awesome mystery. It’s the ultimate hard problem. The current Wikipedia entry is typical: Consciousness ‘is the most mysterious aspect of our lives’;…”

— Jane Smiley, Enlightenment on Your iPhone

“In an era of chaos, he who imparts order triumphs. Facebook killed MySpace because it was organized, there were rules. People say they prefer Android to iOS, Windows to MacOS, but those are the vocal minority. Give people too much choice and they become overwhelmed.”

— Bob Lefsetz, The Power Hierarchy - Lefsetz Letter

“What I am seeking is not the real and not the unreal but rather the unconscious, the mystery of the instinctive in the human race.”

— Amedeo Modigliani, Modigliani

“It is your duty in life to save your dream.”

— Amedeo Modigliani, via Tumblr

“This uncompromising posture, which often exploited racial fear, became an essential part of running a political campaign. For years, elected officials competed with one another on how brutally they would be willing to punish people who broke the law, especially regarding drug-code violations. Legisl…”

— Daniel Nott, What is Mass Incarceration

“blac chyna gotta give ted talks”

— Desus Nice, via twitter.com

“And even when you fear that the whole world knows too much, or that you’ve revealed your deepest secrets, or that you’ve given away a huge chunk of yourself only to be broken again—close your eyes, take a deep breath, and let go. This is the beauty of vulnerability. It’s standing on the edge of a cl…”

— Marisa Donnelly, This Is For The Girls Who Aren’t Afraid To Be Vulnerable

“I see it now, sometimes in my own face, but also in the faces of younger girls on the subway, their pinkies linked, their eyes darting and wounded. See me, they say.”

— Emma Cline, See Me