Listen. Are you breathing just a little and calling it a life?

- Mary Oliver

We have not even to risk the adventure alone, for the heroes of all time have gone before us — the labyrinth is thoroughly known. We have only to follow the thread of the hero path, and where we had thought to find an abomination, we shall find a god; where we had thought to slay another, we shall slay ourselves; where we had thought to travel outward, we shall come to the center of our own existence. And where we had thought to be alone, we shall be with all the world.

- Joseph Campbell

Not the power to remember, but its very opposite, the power to forget, is a necessary condition for our existence.

- Sholem Asch

Every single person has at least one secret that would break your heart. If we could just remember this, I think there would be a lot more compassion and tolerance in the world.

- Frank Warren, Founder of PostSecret

If I could do something for people, I would say: don't forget the mystery, love the mystery, be glad of it.

- Mary Oliver

"I am grateful for what I am and have. My thanksgiving is perpetual."

- Thoreau

Last two weeks I had mysterious illness that resulted in migraines, vomiting and all manner of unpleasantness.

Today, I have no power and haven't had any for over 24 hours. But how am I writing this, you ask? Well my office day job has power! So...in conclusion...Fuck you, YHWH.

Wars, conflict, it's all business. "One murder makes a villain. Millions a hero". Numbers sanctify.

- Charlie Chaplin

And so ends "The Whitest Kids U'Know Week" here at Morning Awkwardness. Hope you enjoyed it. Have a good weekend, ya'll!

No less a critic than C. S. Lewis has described the ravenous addiction that these magazines inspired; the same phenomenon has led me to call science fiction the only genuine consciousness-expanding drug.

- Arthur C. Clarke

I really enjoy forgetting. When I first come to a place, I notice all the little details. I notice the way the sky looks. The color of white paper. The way people walk. Doorknobs. Everything. Then I get used to the place and I don't notice those things anymore. So only by forgetting can I see the place again as it really is.

- David Byrne

Today's word of the day is "Compelling:"

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"The Whitest Kids U'Know Week" at Morning Awkwardness keeps it going louder - this time with a nice homage with my favorite movie, Jaws: