I am in love with hope

The thoughts you keep locked away in the middle of the night are the worst. Eating at your soul keeping you awake and always wondering why. When all you want to do is sleep. Hoping that you’re special enough for someone on this insignificant electrode of a planet. Whoever you are I want you to know that you’re special to me whether you’re an enemy, a stranger, or my very close friend. It’s hard enough just to live, but it’s harder to live when you think no one loves you. Whoever you are you need to know that I love you. If you don’t believe in the love of God, believe in the love of me. If you don’t believe in the love of fate believe in the love of a simple stranger. For every street you cross I promise you that there are open arms even if you don’t think there are, look a little harder, strain your eyes till they hurt. If you’re suffering and the pain is obscuring you’re better judgement just promise me you’ll do me one favor….. Remember me as the stranger who loved you, and I hope it will suffice.

@1 week ago

fuckyeahtattoos:

Tattooed @ Living Canvas Tattoo in Tempe, Arizona…

The whole “star stuff” idea comes from the famous, and late scientists, Carl Sagan. Basically he says that we all come from the stuff that stars are made of, i will explain. Following the Big Bang (if one believes this theory) the universe or whatever it was at that time was composed of the most simplistic form of tangible matter, being hydrogen. From this came stars, which are immensely dense and hot “balls” of hydrogen gas. Over the course of millions of years this hydrogen is “burned” in a process known as nuclear fusion. Towards the very end of a stars lifetime, the star fuses the remaining hydrogen atoms in to oxygen, nitrogen, potassium, and so forth until even heavier elements are formed. Coincidentally, these are the very elements that life requires…therefore my point that everything you see used to be a star. No other process could have formed this matter, and science proves it.

Therefore, the phrase “I AM STAR STUFF” in the language of our own proteins, being amino acids, cannot represent this any better. This genetic code is a fundamental part of life, for it is the building blocks of DNA. The same atoms that came out of the violent death of star somehow formed such connections that mysteriously created life. We, people of the stars, now look up and contemplate the night sky along with all of the stars in it. This is why i love science. It shows how interconnected everything is.

Thank you for reading. I hope this made you understand why i got this tattoo. :)

@2 weeks ago with 1585 notes

It is usually futile to try to talk facts and analysis to people who are enjoying a sense of moral superiority in their ignorance.

@1 week ago

"Consider again that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us. On it everyone you love, everyone you know, everyone you ever heard of, every human being who ever was, lived out their lives. The aggregate of our joy and suffering, thousands of confident religions, ideologies, and economic doctrines, every hunter and forager, every hero and coward, every creator and destroyer of civilization, every king and peasant, every young couple in love, every mother and father, hopeful child, inventor and explorer, every teacher of morals, every corrupt politician, every “superstar”, every “supreme leader”, every saint and sinner in the history of our species lived there - on a mote of dust suspended in a sunbeam.

The Earth is a very small stage in a vast cosmic arena. Think of the rivers of blood spilled by all those generals and emperors so that, in glory and triumph, they could become the momentary masters of a fraction of a dot. Think of the endless cruelties visited by the inhabitants of one corner of this pixel on the scarcely distinguishable inhabitants of some other corner, how frequent their misunderstandings, how eager they are to kill one another, how fervent their hatreds. Our posturings, our imagined self-importance, the delusion that we have some privileged position in the Universe, are challenged by this point of pale light. Our planet is a lonely speck in the great enveloping cosmic dark. In our obscurity, in all this vastness, there is no hint that help will come from elsewhere to save us from ourselves.

The Earth is the only world known so far to harbor life. There is nowhere else, at least in the near future, to which our species could migrate. Visit, yes. Settle, not yet. Like it or not, for the moment the Earth is where we make our stand.

It has been said that astronomy is a humbling and character-building experience. There is perhaps no better demonstration of the folly of human conceits than this distant image of our tiny world. To me, it underscores our responsibility to deal more kindly with one another, and to preserve and cherish the pale blue dot, the only home we’ve ever known."

Carl Sagan, Pale Blue Dot (via crookedindifference)

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@3 weeks ago with 692 notes

"People want pretty much the same things: They wanted to be happy. Most young people seemed to think that those things lay somewhere in the future, while most older people believed they lay in the past."

Nicholas Sparks, Nights in Rodanthe (via simplysinning)

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@4 weeks ago with 602 notes