July 2012
“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...
