Just in case anyone was wondering about what "Looking for Alaska" is really about.... here is the Wiki link, which for once, is pretty true in it's info.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska
I bring this up because my buddy Sigmund had brought up one of it's quotes in another forum here. I decided to post this here instead.
“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Looking_for_Alaska
I bring this up because my buddy Sigmund had brought up one of it's quotes in another forum here. I decided to post this here instead.
“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we'd learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn't fall apart, you'd stop suffering when they did.”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska