January 2012
The question isn’t who is going to let me; it’s who is going to stop me.
– Ayn Rand (via larmoyante)
My soul is in the sky.
– William Shakespeare (via larmoyante)
“Here’s to our 2012 being magical, synchronistic, surprising and resilient. A...
– Flemming Funch on G+ (via amiquote)
THE WAY TO SOLVE THE DIMENSIONAL PROBLEM IS TO... →
Let’s plunge ourselves into the roar of time, the whirl of accident; may pain...
– Goethe, Faust (via keerma)
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You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read....
– Pat Conroy, The Prince of Tides (via larmoyante)
Without haste, but without rest.
– Goethe (personal motto). (via entergoatman)
Turn your face to the sun and the shadows fall behind you.
– Maori Proverb (via untilasinglesolitonsurvives)
All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in...
– Susan Sontag (via the-rx)
I believe that you’ve created a metaphorical universe in which you can express...
– Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson (via thechocolatebrigade)
The truth is, unless you let go, unless you forgive yourself, unless you forgive...
– Steve Maraboli, Life, the Truth, and Being Free (via delucazade)
The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers...
– Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd (via i-ngenue)
December 2011
Independently of ourselves we do not know what the world is like. And our cognition of things has nothing in common with the things as they are outside of us—that is, in themselves.
— P D. Ouspensky, (Tertium Organum)
Someone, and no matter where, collects the pieces of my shadow.
– Claude Esteban (via seabois)
Images. Millions of images. That’s what I eat.
– William S. Burroughs (via seabois)
When I take a pen and hurry to write about love, it begins to tear itself.
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
…From what dream of world did you wriggle free?
What soared—and what...
– Tracy K. Smith. “When Your Small Form Tumbled into Me,” from Life on Mars. Copyright © 2011 by Tracy K. Smith. (via wellallbeancients)
You are born of sex. Your every body cell is a sex cell, all your energy is sex...
– Osho (via peacetranquility)
All the powers in the universe are already ours. It is we who have put our hands...
– Swami Vivekananda (via nirvikalpa)
In truth everything and everyone
Is a shadow of the Beloved,
And our seeking...
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
Knowing that conscious decisions
and personal memory
are much too small a...
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
Very little grows on jagged rock. Be ground. Be crumbled, so wildflowers will...
– Rumi (via fuckyeahrumi)
When I was 18 I wanted to fuck on the floor and break shit. When I was 25 I...
– Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes
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Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.
– Langston Hughes (via ihavelovedyousolong)
I have reservoirs of want enough
to freeze many nights over.
– Conor O’Callaghan, from “January Drought” (adapted from rabbit-light)
Wisdom, when did it descend
weeping into each thing?
– Brian Teare, from “Eden Tiresias” (via proustitute)
Perhaps the hardest thing about losing a lover is
to watch the year repeat its...
– Anne Carson, from “The Glass Essay” (via euchrid)
[And afterwards
what of the traitorous, languorous body?
It lies down.] It...
– Debora Greger, from “Psyche and Eros in Florida” (via the-final-sentence)
Everything inside and around us wants to reflect itself in us. We don’t have to...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via nirvikalpa)