July 2012
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to...”
– Alan Cohen (via remnant)
“I am myself. That is not enough.”
– Sylvia Plath (via deeperintotherabbithole)
“To be ourselves causes us to be exiled by many others, and yet to comply with...”
– Clarissa Pinkola Estes (via human-voices)
“‘When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (via remnant)
“I think you can have anything that you want. Find someone who has a life that...”
– Lana Del Rey (via remnant)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via seabois)
“It takes courage…to endure the sharp pains of self discovery rather than choose...”
– Marianne Williamson, Return to Love (via emotional-algebra)
“It’s hard to get along with people. As much as you try to like them and accept...”
– Henry Rollins (via funeral)
“Spend five minutes cooking pasta and a whole other hour musing about it. Have...”
– Haruki Murakami (via milkpuddle)
paradoxical sentiments: sometimes I feel so... →
paradoxicalsentiments:
sometimes I feel so frantic on the inside and the only thing that ever makes the upheaval settle is manifesting the mess in writing or pictures - just over engaging any of my senses in any way. my fingers tap and itch and want to create something concrete out of everything chaotic. an absence of…
“I’m just a fucking worrier….My favorite people are people who take away my...”
– Conor Oberst (via obdormio)
“Right now, and in every now-moment, you are either closing or opening. You are...”
– David Deida (via remnant)
“The heart wants what it wants. There’s no logic to those things. You meet...”
– Woody Allen (via outerpsyche)
“She had a passion for people who did things well.”
– Mikhail Bulgakov, The Master and Margarita (via remnant)
“unaccountably we are alone
forever alone
and it was meant to be
that way,
it...”
– - Charles Bukowski, Mind and Heart, from the Pleasures of the Damned
(via philo-sofia)
“And don’t go running down the safe and ordinary when you think oh, you are...”
– Stevie Smith
“So he gave up. And in a way I kind of gave up myself. I gave up wondering if...”
– Elaine Dundy, The Dud Avocado
In the typical literary kismet, I discovered this book a couple days before Eleanor was going to recommend it to me and at the exact time in my life that it was necessary that I read it.
Not only is it tremendous, but I think I could happily spend the rest of my...
“There was nothing I wanted to be.”
– Norwegian Wood (via harukimurakami)
“Things to worry about:
Worry about courage
Worry about Cleanliness
Worry...”
– In a 1933 letter to his 11-year-old daughter Scottie, F. Scott Fitzgerald produced this poignant and wise list of things to worry, not worry, and think about – the best father’s advice since John Steinbeck’s letter to his son on falling in love and this beautiful letter to 16-year-old Jackson...
“Don’t be too quick to draw conclusions from what happens to you; simply let it...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet (via emotional-algebra)
Things I Never Learned In High School
crescendol:
sinne-droppar:
boguskudos:
How to do taxes
What taxes are
How to vote
What political parties are
How to write a resume/cover letter/anything related to getting a job
How to write a check/balance a check book
Anything to do with banking
How to do loans for college
How to jump start a car or other basic emergency things
How to buy a car or house
“They may call me a sinner, but I am at peace with myself.”
– Brigitte Bardot (via billowy)
s-tonems:
have you ever seen someone so attractive that you can’t even look at them because it’s like you’re embarrassing yourself
having a friendship with me is like nurturing a tiny baby seed
you have to be patient and give it lots of water and not get upset if it doesn’t grow right away because it takes a while…..
and then it sprouts and you can tell hey because i talk a little more and maybe start conversations
and then you water it more
and then suddenly it blooms and you realize it’s A WEED YOU DON’T WANT THIS IN...
“I force myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own...”
– Marcel Duchamp (via nirvikalpa)
