wanderlust

If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.

krishnamurti

Let us sprawl over the planet like snow angels sheltering black fields, turkey vultures lifting on the thermals. When no one asks for our opinion, surveying our thin skin, white hair, our age, let our irrelevance make us risky. Let us be rowdy with reason or without.

susan bangs munro

There is a danger. Don’t fall in love with yourselves. We have a nice time here. But remember, carnivals come cheap. What matters is the day after, when we will have to return to normal lives. Will there be any changes then? I don’t want you to remember these days, you know, like, ‘Oh, we were young and it was beautiful.’ Remember that our basic message is ‘We are allowed to think about alternatives.’ If the taboo is broken, we do not live in the best possible world. But there is a long road ahead. There are truly difficult questions that confront us. We know what we do not want. But what do we want? What social organization can replace capitalism? What type of new leaders do we want?

 SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK AT OCCUPY WALL STREET

Sometimes the year looks back and lets out a scream, looks back, then passes out appalled.

Miklós Radnóti