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“For everyone I know who did it for a long time, travel became almost like a dangerous drug. At first it made us feel high in a new and fabulous way, and eventually we came to need it just to feel normal. So for all of us coming home was like coming down.”
I returned in December 2005 and burrowed into my childhood bedroom, editing a movie I was unsure anyone would ever see. As the weeks and months passed I felt myself withdrawing from the state of mind captured on all those hours of videotape.
The next time I left the U.S. was in September 2006 to cover a story in Germany for HBO. I was working freelance because I had no desire to get back on the track I’d left. Jens had just returned home to Berlin after 18 months away, and we met at my hotel. “Before I started traveling I had a different life,” Jens said. “I had a good life but now I see things so differently. I can’t tell you in detail what it is, but I just feel it.”
I feel it too.
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It is impossible to live without failing at something, unless you live so cautiously that you might as well not have lived at all – in which case, you fail by default.
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Posted on June 14, 2011 via Sanity turns to Vanity. with 12,651 notes
Source: makemestfu.net
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Sometimes life hits you in the head with a brick. Don’t lose faith. I’m convinced that the only thing that kept me going was that I loved what I did. You’ve got to find what you love. And that is as true for your work as it is for your lovers. Your work is going to fill a large part of your life, and the only way to be truly satisfied is to do what you believe is great work. And the only way to do great work is to love what you do. If you haven’t found it yet, keep looking. Don’t settle. As with all matters of the heart, you’ll know when you find it. And, like any great relationship, it just gets better and better as the years roll on. So keep looking until you find it. Don’t settle.
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I’m a professional cynic but my hearts not in it
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You were fashionably sensitive but too cool to care.
Jewel, in “Foolish Goames” -
We must let go of the life we have planned, so as to accept the one that is waiting for us. -
Joseph Campbell (via @sochews) -
For somethings in life there are no shortcuts. Here’s my advise to all:
Buat yang betul, buat betul betul.Wan Yew Jin -
There are three happiness killers - doing work you do not love and are not passionate about, surrounding yourself with people who you do not really like (someone who just fills time), and living somewhere that does not let you be you.
Just stop it.
Life is far too short.Richard Florida -
..but art is not technology, it is useless but vital. It is through art that we communicate what it feels like to be alive. When you ask “what is the point of art?” You could reformulate the question to “what is the point of human beings?
a. gormley
