February 2012
82 posts
“I never fall apart because I never fall together.”
– Andy Warhol (via juneandafter)
“Remember there’s no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a...”
– Scott Adams (via consciousbeing)
“The first reaction to truth is hatred”
– Tertullian (via heartmindspirit)
“So often we only do what we think is expected of us, when we are capable of so...”
– Cynthia Hand (via creatingaquietmind)
“Shut your eyes and see.”
– James Joyce, Ulysses (via liketheopensea)
“I love those who dream of the impossible.”
– Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, Faust (via liketheopensea)
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the...”
– Salvador Dali (via consciousbeing)
“And it’s a hell of a thing to say but—I never met another man I’d rather be. And...”
– Charles Bukowski, in a letter to John Martin, December 11, 1985 From Reach for the Sun: Selected Letters, 1978-1994 (via liquidnight)
“A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a...”
– Alan Bennett (via oreofarms)
“I learned several years ago never to mistake attention for affection.”
– John Mayer
(via creatingaquietmind)
“I don’t have many friends, not the living, breathing sort at any rate. And I...”
– Kate Morton (via theskeletonofme)
“The world belongs to those who read.”
– Rick Holland (via booksandnerds)
“My love has made me selfish. I cannot exist without you – I am forgetful of...”
– John Keats in a letter to Fanny Brawne (via 5795)
“Close the door. Write with no one looking over your shoulder. Don’t try to...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via pavorst)
“Snap your fingers
Stop the world—
Rain falls harder.”
– Kerouac, American Haiku (via unnamablerevelations)
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...”
– Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
“I have this disease late at night sometimes, involving alcohol and the...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via tarrinj)
“Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via katelizabeth)
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via loveyourchaos)
“She says nothing at all, but simply stares upward into the dark sky and watches,...”
– Neil Gaiman (via alfsaga)
“Know that you are amazing and created wonderfully and beautifully and value...”
– Zachary Levi (via if-youre-going-through-hell)
“Happy. Just in my swim shorts, barefooted, wild-haired, in the red fire dark,...”
– Jack Kerouac, The Dharma Bums (via fernsandmoss)
“When this earth and world did not exist
When there was no moon, sun or sky...”
– Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan (via fernsandmoss)
literaryghost:
I can be changed by what happens to me, but I refuse to be reduced by it.
- Maya Angelou
“She’s whiskey in a teacup, she gives blondes a lousy name, she’s a bonsai...”
– Tom Waits “Black Market Baby” (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“A swift carriage, of a dark night, rattling with four horses over roads that one...”
– Isabel Archer, The Portrait of a Lady by Henry James (via marionettequintet)
“I hoped for nothing. And yet I lived in expectation.”
– Stanisław Lem (via andrewharlow)
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise (via lovesolitudes)
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“Ten years ago when she was eighteen and was not called Arrow, she borrowed her...”
– Steven Galloway
The Cellist of Sarajevo
(via passionately—curious)
“Nobody got anywhere in the world by simply being content.”
– Louis L’Amour (via kari-shma)
“When life is sweet, say thank you and celebrate. And when life is bitter, say...”
– Shauna Niequist (via blua)
“I want
To do with you what spring does with the cherry trees.”
– Pablo Neruda (via childhoodflame)
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary...”
– Isabelle Eberhardt (via creatingaquietmind)
“Minimalism is not a lack of something, it’s simply the perfect amount of...”
– Nicholas Burroughs (via irikosan)
“I can’t afford to hate anyone. I don’t have that kind of time.”
– Iriku, Akira Kurosawa (via hip-)
“I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you. I want to ride in...”
– Jeffrey McDaniel (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“I like too many things and get all confused and hung-up running from one falling...”
– Jack Kerouac (via comelylittletree)
“A girl who is a non-conformist, who doesn’t follow the fads. Of course, I...”
– Peter Noone describing his dream girl (1960s)
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via excessivebookshelf)
“I couldn’t name it, the sweet
sadness welling up in me for weeks.
So I...”
– Dorianne Laux, “After Twelve Days of Rain” (via grammatolatry)
“Many of the most deeply spiritual moments of my life haven’t happened just in my...”
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via creatingaquietmind)
“Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...”
– John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson (via loveyourchaos)
“Yet the one I think of most often,
the one that dangles from me like a locket,...”
– from Marginalia, Billy Collins (via cartographe)
“The moon is backing away from us
an inch and a half each year. That means
if...”
– Dorianne Laux, “Facts About the Moon” (via fleurishes)
“Introverts are much less often groomed for leadership positions, even though...”
– Quiet, Please: Unleashing ‘The Power Of Introverts’ : NPR (via infoneer-pulse)
“What should young people do with their lives today? Many things, obviously. But...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via fornicating)
“All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of...”
– Eugene Field (The Love Affairs of a Bibliomaniac)