February 2012
2 posts
“Food, fire, walks, dreams, cold, sleep, love, slowness, time, quiet, books,...”
– Jeanette Winterson, from Why I adore the night (via growing-orbits)
“In the morning I roused myself early and leaped out of bed, as excited as if...”
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground (via hateshiploveship)
January 2012
17 posts
“Love all, trust few. Do wrong to none.”
– William Shakespeare (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Alive in the slippery moonlight,
how easily you managed
to hold yourself...”
– The Loss by Anne Stevenson (via growing-orbits)
“Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes...”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via thelittlephilosopher)
“Pain is a part of life. Sometimes it’s a big part, and sometimes it isn’t, but...”
– Jim Butcher (via venebelle)
“I was thinking how amazing it was that the world contained so many lives. Out in...”
– Jeffrey Eugenides (via ouil)
"Song," by Allen Ginsberg
hateshiploveship:
The weight of the world is love. Under the burden of solitude, under the burden of dissatisfaction
the weight, the weight we carry is love.
Who can deny? In dreams it touches the body, in thought constructs a miracle, in imagination anguishes till born in human— looks out of the heart burning with purity— for the burden...
“Today I want
to resolve nothing.
I only want to walk
a little longer in...”
– Kim Addonizio, from “New Year’s Day” (via growing-orbits)
“But I have a nightmare to tell: I am trying to say
that to be with my people...”
– Adrienne Rich, from “Yom Kippur 1984” (via growing-orbits)
“Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
(via thelittlephilosopher)
December 2011
47 posts
I want to create things that make people feel.
I want to write things that make people think.
“Pain is a pesky part of being human, I’ve learned it feels like a stab wound to...”
– C. Joybell C. (via venebelle)
“It feels like a moment I’ve lived a thousand times before, as if everything is...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via cite-belle)
“You must write every single day of your life.You must lurk in libraries and...”
– Ray Bradbury (via decrepito)
“It doesn’t interest me what you do for a living. I want to know what you ache...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer (via atomos)
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– -Jonathan Safran Foer (via whendustdances)
“”I take no pleasure in the death of the wicked.”
– (Ezekiel 33:11)
strangerthankindness:
Solipsism ( /ˈsɒlɨpsɪzəm/) is the philosophical idea that only one’s own mind is sure to exist. The term comes from Latin solus (alone) and ipse (self). Solipsism as an epistemological position holds that knowledge of anything outside one’s own mind is unsure. The external world and other minds cannot be known, and might not exist outside the mind. As a metaphysical...
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“Only once in your life, I truly believe, will you find someone who can...”
– Bob Marley (via daphneemarie)
“In order to discover the character of people, we have only to observe what they...”
– Augustine (via thelittlephilosopher)
Sho-crates. Bowls and Platos.
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I’m pretty sure it’s time I started accepting and dealing with a few things I thought were managable for the time being that really aren’t so managable.