the universe

"when people ask me if a god created the universe, I tell them that the question itself makes no sense. Time didn't exist before the big bang so there is no time for god to make the universe in. It's like asking for directions to the edge of the earth, the earth is a sphere, it doesn't have an edge, so looking for it is a futile exercise. We are each free to believe what we want and it's my view that the simplest explanation is, there is no god. No one created the universe and no one directs our fate. This leads me to a profound realization, there is probably no heaven and no afterlife. We have this one life to appreciate the grand design of the universe and for that I'm extremely grateful."

Stephen Hawking 

Ekam Eveileb

Don’t ever take it for granted when people look in your eyes; you’ve no idea how lucky you are. Actually, forget about luck, you’ve no idea how important it is to be acknowledged.

If You Could See Me Now

Cecelia Ahern 

I don't know what that will be

I was raised up believing I was somehow unique like a snowflake distinct among snowflakes, unique in each way you can see and now after some thinking I'd say I'd rather be a functioning cog in some great machinery serving something beyond me

Helplessness Blues - Fleet Foxes 

If I Ever Feel Better

They say an end can be a start

Feels like I've been buried yet I'm still alive

It's like a bad day that never ends

I feel the chaos around me

A thing I don't try to deny

I'd better learn to accept that

There are things in my life that I can't control

They say love ain't nothing but a sore

I don't even know what love is

Too many tears have had to fall

Don't you know I'm so tired of it all

I have known terror dizzy spells

Finding out the secrets words won't tell

Whatever it is it can't be named

There's a part of my world that's fading away

You know I don't want to be clever

To be brilliant or superior

True like ice, true like fire

Now I know that a breeze can blow me away

Now I know there's much more dignity

In defeat than in the brightest victory

I'm losing my balance on the tight rope

Tell me please, tell me please, tell me please...

if I ever feel better

Remind me to spend some good time with you

You can give me your number

When it's all over I'll let you know

Hang on to the good days

I can lean on my friends

They help me going through hard times

But I'm feeding the enemy

I'm in league with the foe

Blame me for what's happening

I can't try, I can't try, I can't try...

No one knows the hard times I went through

If happiness came I miss the call

The stormy days ain't over

I've tried and lost know I think that I pay the cost

Now I've watched all my castles fall

They were made of dust, after all

someday all this mess will make me laugh

I can't wait, I can't wait, I can't wait...

If I ever feel better

Remind me to spend some good time with you

You can give me your number

When it's all over i'll let you know

It's like somebody took my place

I ain't even playing my own game

The rules have changed well I didn't know

There are things in my life I can't control

I feel the chaos around me

A thing I don't try to deny

I'd better learn to accept that

There's a part of my life that will go away

Dark is the night, cold is the ground

In the circular solitude of my heart

As one who strives a hill to climb

I am sure I'll come through I don't know how

-Phoenix

Never Let Me Go

Por Kazuo Ishiguro

A devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside.

It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and undestanding just what it is that makes them special and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go administers its revelations as precisely as drops of acid.

Love and Death

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be unhappy, one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Woody Allen - Love and Death (1975) 

Intermission in the third dimension

The third dimension is a theoretical realm of space and time, in which the particles of dark matter of this parallel, alternate reality bends light to collide with the electrical charges of the subconscious mind to create the illusion of movement. What is dark becomes light. What is light becomes dark. Some look into the third dimension and see nothingness. Others believe they see the very face of God.

A satisfied mind

How many times have you heard someone say, if I had his money I could do things my way?

Money can't buy back your youth when you're old, or a friend when you're lonely, or a love that's grown cold.

Johnny Cash