February 2012
Writing and reading decrease our sense of isolation. They deepen and widen and...
– Anne Lamott, Bird by Bird. (via paperbackgirl)
We are all of us born with a letter inside us, and that only if we are true to...
– Douglas Coupland (via amandaonwriting)
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There are no beautiful things without a terrible depth.
– Friedrich Nietzsche
Recall your thoughts inward, and if while contemplating yourself, you do not...
– Plotinus | An Essay on the Beautiful (via blogut)
Learn to love solitude – to be more alone with yourselves. The problem with...
– Andrei Tarkovsky (via wine-loving-vagabond)
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Why is it, that as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding...
– Ernest Gaines
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If it means interfering in an ensconced, outdated system to help one woman, man,...
– Wonder Woman
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Coat by Vicki Feaver
heartuntamed:
Sometimes I have wanted to throw you off like a heavy coat. Sometimes I have said you would not let me breathe or move. But now that I am free to choose light clothes or none at all I feel the cold and all the time I think how warm it used to be.
Squeeze me harder now
and let your hands show my back
how much you missed me.
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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secretedsins:
A Song of Despair
(Poema de Amor XX)
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight.
Write, for instance: “The night is full of stars, and the stars, blue, shiver in the distance.”
The night wind whirls in the sky and sings.
I can write the saddest poem of all tonight. I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.
On nights like this, I held her in my arms. I kissed her so...
The three saddest things are the ill wanting to be well, the poor wanting to be...
– e.e. Cummings
To be trusted is a greater compliment than being loved.
– George MacDonald (via misswallflower)
Without patience, magic would be undiscovered - in rushing everything, we would...
– Tamora Pierce (via misswallflower)
The wound is the place where the light enters the body
– Rumi
Identity is not a bunch of little cubby holes stuffed respectively with...
– Gloria Anzaldua (via wine-loving-vagabond)
I cut you out because I couldn’t stand being a passing fancy. Before I give my...
– The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath (July-Sept 1950)
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We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become...
– Libba Bray
Pursue the things you love doing and then do them so well that people can’t take...
– Maya Angelou (via gloriacat)
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Why did he write to her,
“I can’t live without you”?
And why did she write to...
– Carl Sandburg (via mocasia)
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You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...
– Richard P. Feynman
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From that time on, the world was hers for the reading. She would never be lonely...
– A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Betty Smith
No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via loveyourchaos)
Something’s gotta give, it may as well be our fingers…touch me, until my ribs...
– andrea gibson. (via angeliquepricilla)
People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of...
– Neil Gaiman (via misswallflower)
You know that feeling? That feeling when you just want the right thing to fall...
– Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist (via mynameiselly)
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are...
– Henri Frederic Amiel (via kari-shma)
Maybe there’s something you’re afraid to say, or someone you’re afraid to love,...
– John Green