“Every second I’m with you, I feel like a better person. You make me believe it’s possible that I can move on from every mistake I’ve ever made and live in your world.” —HEW”
Source: He + She
“We obviously both have our pasts, but that’s not important right now. I don’t have to know every bad thing you ever did in your life to know that you’re a good guy now. People change, grow up, get smarter, move on. In ten years I could be completely different, but I’ll never be the person I was yesterday, or even this morning. I don’t want to be. I want to try to be better with each second I’m alive.” —SHEA”
Source: He + She
“She knelt on the walkway, and the plants bunched around her, each of them calling out their name: the philodendron was Dendy (he), the ivy was Risa (they), the orchid Amina (she), the calla lily Viria (she), the thistle Tirna (they), the fireweed Nif (he), the wax myrtle Ree (he), the prickly pear Hosha (they), the flytrap Sut (he), the morning glory Zyndia (she), the fern Mirr (they)... She committed as many names as possible to memory.”
Source: The Enchanted Greenhouse
“One side of the road:
She said to his Him: You are the man I prayed for
Another side of the road:
He said to his Her: You are the woman I prayed for. She wasn't as beautiful as you are.”
“We’re all familiar with the Hippie dress code. Long hair, beards, psychedelic colours, sandals, lots of beads, and the women could often be seen wearing long, flowery granny dresses. So much so in fact that it became a uniform. Hippies rebelled so much against inflexible dress codes that eventually they created their own rigid styles.
Hippies mutinied so much against conformity that over the course of time they were forced to play the game and comply with what everyone else was wearing. The counter-culture became a counter-counter-culture.
Everyone was the same”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“The original Hippies were cool because it was who they were. But the ‘movement’ grew in numbers because it became the 'in thing’ to do. And sad as it is, most of them were plastic Hippies. The original Beatniks did what they did not because they were ‘hip’ but because it was who they were as a person. These were Carefree Scamps, but the plastic Hippies weren’t carefree at all
And besides that, they smelled like an Oxfam shop”
Source: Wrong Planet - Searching for your Tribe
“An hour of road trip time stretches on much longer than real life time.”
Source: Motion of Intervals
“Fame is a hungry monster; it is never satisfied." Bayard Taylor”
Source: The Island Beyond the Coast - Book II: A real-life journey set in Greece during the 19th century with Bayard Taylor & Mark Twain
“Come life, Shaker life,
Come life eternal;
Shake, shake out of me
All that is carnal.”
Source: Blue Highways-a Journey Into America
“Neal is coming to New York.
Neal is coming to New York.
Neal is coming to New York for New Year´s Eve.
Neal is coming to New York for New Year´s Eve.
Neal is coming to New York for New Year´s Eve in a ’49 Hudson.
[ca. December 16, 1948]”
Source: Jack Kerouac and Allen Ginsberg: The Letters