December 2011
1 post
“She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live; she read books as...”
– Annie Dillard, The Living (via thebronzemedal)
September 2011
2 posts
“I believe a strong woman may be stronger than a man, particularly if she happens...”
– John Steinbeck (via forgivethelost)
2 tags
“I am dying
because you have not
died for me
and the world
still loves you.
...”
– (via kirschkids)
August 2011
6 posts
An Existential Life: All man’s alibi’s are... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
All man’s alibi’s are unacceptable: no gods are responsible for his condition; no original sin; no heredity and environment; no race, no caste, no father and no mother; no wrong-headed education, no governess, no teacher; not even an impulse or a disposition, a complex or a childhood trauma….
1 tag
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via sarmander)
“Moth: I gave you my life.
Flame: I allowed you to kiss me.”
– Hazrat Inayat Khan (via rhemmie)
“Raise your words, not voice. It is rain that grows flowers, not thunder.”
– Rumi (via inspiri)
“Damaged people are dangerous. They know they can survive.”
– Josephine Hart (via mindplayintricks)
“Most men are not wicked… They are sleep-walkers, not evil evildoers.”
– Franz Kafka (via willcrabb)
June 2011
2 posts
“Observe the wonders as they occur around you. Don’t claim them. Feel the...”
– Rumi (via eternalconsciousness)
“Is it the sea you hear in me,
Its dissatisfactions?
Or the voice of nothing,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via thesaltwaternight)
May 2011
1 post
“Even if the whole world were to fall to pieces, the unity of the psyche would...”
– Carl Jung
April 2011
3 posts
“I sense a scream passing through nature. I painted … the clouds as actual blood....”
– Edvard Munch (via cassket)
“Why am I so anxious? And then it hits me. I’m not anxious, I’m lonely. And I’m...”
– Augusten Burroughs (via cassket)
“Never trouble another for what you can do for yourself.”
– Thomas Jefferson (1743 - 1826)
March 2011
1 post
“Lignin, the stuff that prevents all trees from adopting the weeping habit, is a...”
– Why secondhand bookstores smell good
Perfumes: The Guide (via YMFY)
February 2011
1 post
“The greatest thing I can do for you is work on myself, and the greatest thing...”
– Ram Dass (via poortaste)
December 2010
6 posts
“You are my only love.
You have me completely in your power.
I know and feel...”
– James Joyce
“I belong to you; there is really no other way of expressing it, and that is not...”
– Franz Kafka
“Where you are is where I belong.
Where you go is where I want to be.”
– Dave Matthews
“Isn’t everything we do in life a way to be loved a little more?”
– Celine | Before Sunrise (1995)
“… imagine a puddle waking up one morning and thinking, ‘This is an...”
– Douglas Adams
Minds
1000savagecomforts:
“People in their right minds never take pride in their talents.” From Harper Lee’s To Kill a Mockingbird
November 2010
2 posts
Jonathon Livingston Seagull
“Do you have any idea how many lives we must have gone through before we even got the first idea that there is more to life than eating, or fighting, or power in the Flock? A thousand lives, Jon, ten thousand! And then another hundred lives until we began to learn that there is a such a thing as perfection, and another hundred again to get the idea that our purpose for living is to find...
“That buzzing-noise means something. If there’s a buzzing noise,...”
– Winnie the Pooh
October 2010
10 posts
““So you are a mixed person, with good as well as evil, as I am. I am selfish to...”
– On A Pale Horse by Piers Anthony pg 166 (via apizzagirl)
“One filled with joy preaches without preaching.”
– Mother Teresa
“A man’s silence is wonderful to listen to.”
– Thomas Hardy
“Living apart and at peace with myself, I came to realize more vividly the...”
– Henry Miller (1891 - 1980)
“Every child is an artist. The problem is how to remain an artist once he grows...”
– Pablo Picasso (1881 - 1973)
ninasemen:
for months i’d avoided the mirror. every glimpse of my shimmering reflection in a store window brought back memories of his jeers. his insults were constant, inescapable. they muted the praise of others, rang over any rare instances of self appreciation. i had so much pride before him and no idea how to get it back.
“This is a very important practice. Live your daily life in a way that you never...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh
“I have always thought that by observing things with a great deal of attention...”
– Julian Green, Paris (via openlooppress) (via sleepanddream)
“People change and forget to tell each other.”
– Lillian Hellman
1 tag
“If the type of person you wish existed doesn’t, then that is who you must...”
–
The Person You Are is Better Than the Ghost You Were
June 2010
1 post
“We all live in a house on fire, no fire department to call; no way out, just the...”
– Tennessee Williams (via jscottgrand) (via sleepanddream)
May 2010
1 post
salt, Lucielle Clifton (for 5/14)
he is salt to her, a strange sweet a peculiar money precious and valuable only to her tribe, and she is salt to him, something that rubs raw that leaves a tearful taste but what he will strain the ocean for and what he needs.
(poetry365)
April 2010
3 posts
“April is the cruelest month,
breeding lilacs out of the dead land,
mixing...”
– T.S. Eliot
“I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the...”
– Franz Kafka (via thechocolatebrigade)
A Moveable Feast
People who interfered in your life always did it for your own good and I figured it out finally that what they wanted was for you to conform completely and never differ from some accepted surface standard and then dissipate the way traveling salesmen would at a convention in every stupid and boring way there was. They knew nothing of our pleasures nor how much fun it was to be damned to ourselves...
March 2010
5 posts
“It is not a good thing to want a thing too much. It sometimes drives the luck...”
– John Steinbeck (The Pearl)
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings - always darker, emptier and simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via brokenmachine) (via coincident)
A Moveable Feast
With so many trees in the city, you could see the spring coming each day until a night of warm wind would bring it suddently in one morning. Sometimes the heavy cold rains beat it back so that it would seem that it would never come and that you were losing a season out of your life. This was the only truly sad time in Paris because it was unnatural. You expected to be sad in the fall. Part of you...
A Moveable Feast
“And we’re going to have all the books in the world to read and when we go on trips we can take them.”
“Would that be honest?”
“Sure.”
“Does she have Henry James too?”
“Sure.”
“My,” she said, “We’re lucky that you found the place.”
“We’re always lucky,” I said and like a fool I...
Cannery Row
Someone should write an erudite essay on the moral, physical, and esthetic effect of the Model T Ford on the American nation. Two generations of Americans knew more about the Ford coil than the clitoris, about the planetary system of gears than the solar system of stars. With the Model T, part of the concept of private property disappeared. Pliers ceased to be privately owned and a tire pump...
February 2010
2 posts
1 tag
“Love cannot survive if you just give it scraps of yourself, scraps of your time,...”
– Mary O’Hara
Quiet Girl
I would liken you To a night without stars Were it not for your eyes. I would liken you To a sleep without dreams Were it not for your songs.
- Langston Hughes
January 2010
1 post
“I do my thing, and you do your thing. I am not in this world to live up to your...”
– Frederick E. Perl (via thechocolatebrigade) (via applestoartemis)
December 2009
10 posts
“But since, at every moment of our lives, we all have one foot in a fairy tale...”
– Paulo Coelho (Eleven Minutes)
“He had one of those rare smiles with a quality of eternal reassurance in it,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via tusha)