December 2011
153 posts
“I desire the things which will destroy me in the end.”
– Sylvia Plath
“I saw that nothing was permanent. You don’t want to possess anything that is...”
– Yoko Ono
“Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds...”
– William Wordsworth
“I hear and I forget. I see and I remember. I do and I understand.”
– Confucius
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“Everyone carries a shadow…and the less it is embodied in the individual’s...”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“Man is the only creature who refuses to be what he is.”
– Albert Camus
“Life can be magnificent and overwhelming — that is the whole tragedy. Without...”
– Albert Camus
“The worst loneliness is to not be comfortable with yourself.”
– Mark Twain
“Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable...”
– Eckhart Tolle
“Books don’t offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
– David Mitchell
namastecat asked: hello! thank you so much for creating this blog, it is filled with so much beauty, wisdom, insight, it is one of my favorite spaces on the internet. i am currently working on a supplement for a college application and one of the questions asks about having a conversation with a woman in history. i was thinking about mary oliver, but she is a contemporary poet. i was wondering if any inspiring...
“Individuation is a life-long process of finding the meaning in your own...”
– Karla McLaren
“still the body
still the mind
still the voice inside
in silence
feel the...”
– Kabir
“May we all grow in grace and peace,
and not neglect the silence that is printed...”
– Thomas Merton
“Which of us, walking through the twilight or retracing some day in our past, has...”
– Jorge Luis Borges, Paradiso
“An average man is too concerned with liking people or with being liked himself....”
– Carlos Castaneda, A Separate Reality
“Every intention sets energy into motion,
whether you are conscious of it or...”
– Gary Zukav
“Drop the idea of becoming someone, because you are already a masterpiece. You...”
– Osho
“I love sleep. My life has the tendency to fall apart when I’m awake, you know?”
– Ernest Hemingway
“I prefer winter and fall, when you feel the bone structure of the landscape....”
– Andrew Wyeth
“Where wisdom reigns, there is no conflict between thinking and feeling.”
– Carl Gustav Jung
“Anger dwells only in the bosom of fools.”
– Albert Einstein
“When you wake to the dream of now
from night and its other dream,
you carry...”
– William Stafford, The Dream of Now
“I promise to make you so alive that the fall of dust on furniture will deafen…”
– Nina Cassian
“I’ve got this moment
and no idea when it will end,
but every second of this...”
– Andrea Gibson
“For in spite of language, in spite of intelligence and intuition and sympathy,...”
– Aldous Huxley
“I tried not to do anything in life
that ashamed the child I was”
– José Saramago
“If we could read the secret history of our enemies, we should find in each man’s...”
– Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
“The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in...”
– Václav Havel
Czech playwright, essayist, poet, dissident and politician. Former President of Czechoslovakia and the first President of the Czech Republic, (1936-2011)
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“people are worn away with
striving,
they hide in common
habits.
their...”
– Charles Bukowski, The Last Night of the Earth Poems
“A man can know no greater torment than to look forward to an unhappy, empty and...”
– Robert Schumann
“for me
obedience to another is the decay
of self.
for though every being is...”
– Charles Bukowski
“Every second of this life is scripture.”
– Andrea Gibson
“A person needs a little madness, or else they never dare cut the rope and be...”
– Nikos Kazantzakis
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“In music, in poetry, and in life, the rest, the pause, the slow movements are...”
– Maryanne Wolf
“Go placidly amid the noise and the haste and remember what peace there may be in...”
– Max Ehrmann, Desiderata
I finished college today.
“Power over others is weakness disguised as strength, true power is within.”
– Ekhart Tolle
“What do I know of man’s destiny? I could tell you more about radishes.”
– Samuel Beckett
“They give birth astride of a grave, the light gleams an instant, then it’s night...”
– Samuel Beckett
“Truth has to be given in riddles. People can’t take truth if it comes charging...”
– Chaim Potok, The Gift of Asher Lev
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“… I spend my life wondering if I’m deep or not…”
– Fernando Pessoa
“Screw poetry, it’s you I want, your taste, rain on you, mouth on your skin.”
– Margaret Atwood
dostoevskian-passion-deactivate asked: What are your favorite books? :)
You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one...
Body text.
Do not wish you were more curvy. Do not try to be more skinny. Be you. Be healthy. Eat well. Exercise. Take care of your body. Love your body. Find someone who will respect you and let them love your body, too. Fuck anything anyone says about how you should look or how you should feel about how you look, including what I’m saying right now. It makes me sick to see how women (and men) afflict...