Inspirational Movies: October Sky

’Sometimes one dream is enough to light up the whole sky’

Fantasies have to be unrealistic because the moment, the second that you get what you seek, you don’t, you can’t want it anymore. In order to continue to exist, desire must have its objects perpetually absent. It’s not the “it” that you want, it’s the fantasy of “it.” So, desire supports crazy fantasies. This is what Pascal means when he says that we are only truly happy when daydreaming about future happiness. Or why we say ‘the hunt is sweeter than the kill’ or 'be careful what you wish for.’ Not because you’ll get it, but because you’re doomed not to want it once you do. So the lesson of Lacan is, living by your wants will never make you happy. What it means to be fully human is to strive to live by ideas and ideals and not to measure your life by what you’ve attained in terms of your desires but those small moments of integrity, compassion, rationality, even self-sacrifice. Because in the end, the only way that we can measure the significance of our own lives is by valuing the lives of others.

David Gale, The Life of David Gale. (via acknowledgetheabsurd)

if april showers bring may flowers, what do may flowers bring?

When someone is copying ur hw and complains about ur handwriting like bitch ur fuckin pushin it

I spend so much time alone that if I was ever falsely accused for a crime I would never have an alibi

when you text somebody for the first time and their texting style is completely different from yours 

They say all foxes are slightly allergic to linoleum, but it’s cool to the paw - try it. They say my tail needs to be dry cleaned twice a month, but now it’s fully detachable - see? They say our tree may never grow back, but one day, something will. Yes, these crackles are made of synthetic goose and these giblets come from artificial squab and even these apples look fake - but at least they’ve got stars on them. I guess my point is, we’ll eat tonight, and we’ll eat together. And even in this not particularly flattering light, you are without a doubt the five and a half most wonderful wild animals I’ve ever met in my life. So let’s raise our boxes - to our survival.

I’m an innocent man. I spent 15 years in prison for something I didn’t do. I watched my father die in a British prison for something he didn’t do. And this government still says he’s guilty. I want to tell them that until my father is proved innocent, until all the people involved in this case are proved innocent, until the guilty ones are brought to justice, I will fight on. In the name of my father and of the truth!

In the Name of the Father (1994)

Not enough people are talking about the fact that Gerry Conlon died

He was an Northern Irish man sentenced to life in prison after being wrongly accused of the IRA bombing of the Guildford Pub in 1974. He was one of Four wrongly convicted of the bombing, as well as Seven others (including his father) who was convicted of conspiracy to murder.

He served 15 years before an appeal ruled that he as well as the other ten people were innocent, and an official statement by Tony Blair was released in 2005.

This was the biggest Miscarriage of Justice in British history, and this guy seriously deserves to be talked about.

Wish him luck, boys