May 2012
139 posts
“But let us get one thing straight: the best years of our lives are not behind...”
– The Opposite of Loneliness by Marina Keegan
go read the whole thing.
It’s not only tragic that she died, cutting short a life with so much possibility and promise and life left to live, but I also think it’s incredibly tragic that it took her death to bring her words to so many people, myself...
“I want to know you. You seem like someone worth knowing. Every day I feel like...”
– Ryan O’Connell, I Want To Know You (via obdormio)
“I like living. I have sometimes been wildly, despairingly, acutely miserable,...”
– Agatha Christie (via heylabodega)
melanieish asked: So overwhelmed at how beautiful your blog is.
“…the female narcissist is dangerous to patriarchy because she obviates the...”
– amelia jones, body art: performing the subject (via karaj)
“I think it’s great for two people to be together. That is a good number. I...”
– Henry Rollins (via lueurs)
“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...”
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via unejeunedemoiselle)
“So she loved him. She just did immediately and again often and clearly naturally...”
– Daniel Handler, Adverbs (via emotional-algebra)
“The Dalai Lama, when asked what surprised him most about humanity, answered...”
– The Dalai Lama (via styleallureattitude)
“I began to realize
how important it was
to be an enthusiast in life.
He...”
– Roald Dahl (via saisonlune)
“That’s how we find our way outward and onward. By holding onto beauty hardest....”
– DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #98: Monsters And Ghosts - The Rumpus.net (via leopoldgursky)
The epitome of simplicité: What grades determine: →
Your ability to memorize mostly useless things
Your ability to regurgitate information in the way others want you to
Your ability to understand what adults want from you and give it to them
Your tolerance for working on tasks you don’t find useful because others want you to do them or…
“تعال عش في قلبي ولا تدفع الايجار
Come, live in my heart, and pay no rent.”
– Arabic proverb (via madame-curie)
“Slut” is how we vilify a woman for exercising her right to say “yes”....”
– (via buildingmosaicsoutoflife)
“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of...”
– Eckhart Tolle, The Power of Now (via snapsforsantoro)
“I know I’ve changed. Nothing gets to me anymore. Well, okay, except for stuff in...”
– Laura Wiess, Leftovers (via shesinacoma)
“I think people are often quite unaware of their inner selves, their other...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via growing-orbits)
“…Most egos have conflicting wants. They want different things at different times...”
– Eckhart Tolle- A New Earth (via thecakeisalie)
“So many people wait around for love to be found for them, for somebody to say,...”
– Christopher Owens (via carouselwitch)
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“You have to ask yourself, ‘Does this item or thought or response move me closer...”
– Peter Walsh
(via shikoomkoom)
“Why are women… so much more interesting to men than men are to women?”
– Virginia Woolf (via thecultofgenius)
“Please do not understand me too quickly.”
– André Gide (via joannastarks)
“Do I dare believe
that I, and I alone will
ever be enough?”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via shesinacoma)
“I think one day you’ll find that you’re the hero you’ve been looking for.”
– James Stewart, An American Tail: Fievel Goes West (via emotional-algebra)
“Whenever anyone has called me a bitch, I have taken it as a compliment. To me, a...”
– Margaret Cho (via funeral)
“Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...”
– Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via creatingaquietmind)
“There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering,...”
– Anais Nin (via emotional-algebra)
“I wasn’t meant for reality, but life came and found me.”
– Fernando Pessoa, The Book Of Disquiet (via saisonlune)
“What am I like? There’s something broken in me, there’s something broken in my...”
– Lara, in “Dr. Zhivago” - Pasternak (via summerpreambles)
“I felt suddenly shy. I was not used to shy. I was used to shame. Shyness is when...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via misswallflower)
“I want to think again of dangerous and noble things. I want to be light and...”
– Mary Oliver (via carouselwitch)
“And once the storm is over, you won’t remember how you made it through, how you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via emotional-algebra)
“Things aren’t all so tangible and sayable as people would usually have us...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via emotional-algebra)