April 2012
116 posts
“She believed a great happiness awaited her somewhere, and for this reason she...”
– Sunflower, by Gyula Krúdy (via groundfaery)
March 2012
191 posts
“Pain and suffering are always inevitable for a large intelligence and a deep...”
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Crime and Punishment (via cloudofdharma)
“Most people are on the world, not in it - having no conscious sympathy or...”
– John Muir (via hazes)
“Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in...”
– Deepak Chopra (via blua)
“We all complete. Maybe none of us really understand what we’ve lived through, or...”
– Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go (via greendaze)
“I read once that the ancient Egyptians had fifty words for sand, and the Eskimos...”
– Brian Andreas (via langst)
“The only people who see the whole picture,” he murmured, “are the ones who step...”
– Salman Rushdie (via amandaonwriting)
“You’re missing something. You’re watching everything pass you by and it’s making...”
– Ryan O’Connell, How to become the person you want to be. (via creatingaquietmind)
“And so being young and dipped in folly I fell in love with melancholy.”
– Edgar Allan Poe (via mcfearless-aha)
“It was only a sunny smile, and little it cost in the giving, but like morning...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via liketheopensea)
“Nothing compares to your hands, nothing like the green-gold of your eyes. My...”
– Love letter from Frida Kahlo to Diego Rivera (via nobunnyluvsyou)
“You’re going to discover that conversations are best at 4am. The heavier the...”
– Jeff Stuckel (via loveyourchaos)
randomdalliances:
Style: Poet Adrienne Rich has died.
washingtonpoststyle:
From her 21 Love Poems, on love and aging. The last two lines. Just gorgeous.
Since we’re not young, weeks have to do time for years of missing each other. Yet only this odd warp in time tells me we’re not young. Did I ever walk the morning streets at twenty, my limbs streaming with a…
“I don’t want to earn my living; I want to live.”
– Oscar Wilde (via floralnymph)
“If in my youth I had realized that the sustaining splendour of beauty of with...”
– Michelangelo (via missfolly)
“One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone...”
– Carl Sagan (via lunardruse)
“Childhood is the kingdom where nobody dies.”
– Edna St.Vincent Millay (via Swanfeather Songs)
“The big thieves hang the little ones.”
– Czech Proverb (via heartmindspirit)
“What is your name? She whispered. She bent down and kissed him, then began...”
– In The Skin of a Lion, Michael Ondaatje (via 1000scientists)
“Leonardo’s Mona Lisa is just a thousand thousand smears of paint. Michelangelo’s...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via iwilltakethesuninmymouth)
“Between skin and skin, there is only light.”
– John Fowles, The Magus (via mythologyofblue)
“I wish people were all trees and I think I could enjoy them then.”
– Georgia O’Keeffe, 1921 (via milktree)
“We can’t behave like people in novels, though, can we?”
– Edith Wharton (via lunardruse)
“I love the deep quiet in which I live and grow against the world and harvest...”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via heartmindspirit)
“There must be another life, she thought, sinking back into her chair,...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Years (via afortressaroundmyheart)
“I don’t believe in guilt, I believe in living on impulse as long as you never...”
– Angelina Jolie (via kari-shma)
“And if the razor grass cut my legs and arms I would think ‘It’s better than...”
– Jean Rhys, Wide Sargasso Sea (via shebledsunshine)
“Do all the good you can. By all the means you can. In all the ways you can. In...”
– John Wesley (via lunardruse)
“There is hope in men,
not in society, not in systems,
not in organized...”
– Jiddu Krishnamurti (via heartmindspirit)
“Do you remember when we met
in Gomorrah? When you were still beardless,
and I...”
– “What Lot’s Wife Would Have Said (If She Wasn’t A Pillar of Salt),” Karen Finneyfrock (via clavicola)
“It was in love I was created.
And in love is how I hope I die.”
– Paolo Nutini (via liketheopensea)
“I never trust people’s assertions, I always judge of them by their actions.”
– Ann Radcliffe, “The Mysteries of Udolpho” (via heartmindspirit)
“I’ve been homesick for countries I’ve never been, and longed to be where I...”
– John Cheever (via extra-tentacles)
“I’ll go out there and make my mistakes. I’ll fall down, get hurt, cry, laugh,...”
– Anna Floyd (via liketheopensea)
“the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via kingsrow)
“Life doesn’t get easier or more forgiving, we get stronger and more resilient.”
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free (via creatingaquietmind)
“When adults say, “Teenagers think they are invincible” with that sly, stupid...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska (via purificationinfire)
“Don’t you see? It’s just not possible for one person to watch over another...”
– Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami (via thechocolatebrigade)
“There are women who make things better… simply by showing up. There are women...”
– Ashley Rice (via creatingaquietmind)
“You know when sometimes you meet someone so beautiful and then you actually talk...”
– Amelia Pond (via venebelle)
“I confess I hunger still to be filled and enflamed. To melt into the dream of...”
– Dangerous Beauty (1998)
“You have power over your mind - not outside events. Realize this, and you will...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via creatingaquietmind)
“I’ve had many enemies over the years. If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s...”
– Stieg Larsson, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (via danseurs)
“Our fifteen-year-old self is our harshest critic. All the things it thought we...”
– Jonathan Carroll (via withnailrules)
“I love Lindsey’s work. I didn’t hang around with him for seven years for...”
– Stevie Nicks (via lunardruse) 