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Quotable quotes.

"As cruel and painful as it may seem at times, we have to accept that some people can only be in our hearts, not in our lives."

—  Juan Francisco Palencia.

you don’t need to spread hate to get attention

remember, you're worthy of love and care and softness!! you are allowed to create a life of comfort for yourself!! you are allowed to be content!!

One of my favorite "floating" verses

(That's a verse that periodically shows up in many different folk songs that share the same rhythm but have different melodies)

I'll eat when I'm hungry, And drink when I'm dry. And if the whiskey don't kill me, I'll live 'til I die.

"It shouldn't be like this."

"There isn't a way things should be. There's just what happens, and what we do."

"Well, couldn't you help him by magic?"

"I see to it that he's in no pain, yes," said Miss Level.

"But that's just herbs."

"It's still magic. Knowing things is magical, if other people don't know them."

Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

fuck living the life you always dreamed of; live the life you never dared to let yourself dream.

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Quotable quotes.

"Among thousands of daily thoughts and words, be grateful to the one who thinks of you".

—  Juan Francisco Palencia.

I don't trust people who insist on a hard separation between good and bad people. That kind of person never considers if what they're doing is wrong, because wrongs are something that bad people do, and since they're not a bad person, how could they possibly?

If someone tells you it doesn't take effort to be a good person, it means they don't make an effort to be a good person.

Admit it. You aren’t like them. You’re not even close. You may occasionally dress yourself up as one of them, watch the same mindless television shows as they do, maybe even eat the same fast food sometimes. But it seems that the more you try to fit in, the more you feel like an outsider, watching the “normal people” as they go about their automatic existences. For every time you say club passwords like “Have a nice day” and “Weather’s awful today, eh?”, you yearn inside to say forbidden things like “Tell me something that makes you cry” or “What do you think deja vu is for?”

Face it, you even want to talk to that girl in the elevator. But what if that girl in the elevator (and the balding man who walks past your cubicle at work) are thinking the same thing? Who knows what you might learn from taking a chance on conversation with a stranger? Everyone carries a piece of the puzzle. Nobody comes into your life by mere coincidence. Trust your instincts. Do the unexpected. Find the others.

Timothy Leary

"Life is not a having and a getting, but a being and a becoming."

~ Myrna Loy

anyway i figured out why i have such a problem with stories where all the characters dont meet each other and the answer is because in sonic every character meets and is touched by sonic at some point

like in sonic the unifying link is sonic. Everyone meets Sonic because he IS the story. But not all stories are driven by a central character. That's not a bad thing! I just found it interesting. My method of media consumption is SO influenced by him that I am forever critical of stories where the central focus isn't a character.

In a lot of stories the unifying link is a place, or a concept, or an event, but in Sonic its a person. Everyone meets everyone because Sonic is the center of the narrative. If Green Hill Zone was the center of the narrative, Tails and Rouge, for example, or Amy and Knuckles would never have met.

And I think those are the kinds of stories I like best because of Sonic. In a story, I love interpersonal connection and the best way to have that is to make a character like Sonic who touches the heart of every damn person he meets.

As Hanna-Barberian a philosophy as it can get, no?