“I have the choice of being constantly active and happy or introspectively passive and sad. Or I can go mad by ricocheting in between.”
—Sylvia Plath (via splinter-eye)
December 2011
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
—John Green (via misswallflower)
“Jealousy is all the fun you think they had.”
—Erica Jong (via misswallflower)
“There is always something to do. There are hungry people to feed, naked people to clothe, sick people to comfort and make well. And while I don’t expect you to save the world I do think it’s not asking too much for you to love those with whom you sleep, share the happiness of those whom you call friend, engage those among you who are visionary and remove from your live those who offer you depression, despair and disrespect.”
—Nikki Giovanni
“It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful.”
—Vincent van Gogh
“When you came, you were like red wine and honey,
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread,
Smooth and pleasant.
I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.” —Amy Lowell
And the taste of you burnt my mouth with its sweetness.
Now you are like morning bread,
Smooth and pleasant.
I hardly taste you at all for I know your savour,
But I am completely nourished.” —Amy Lowell
“How can you hear your soul if everyone is talking?”
—Mary Doria Russell (via misswallflower)
“You feel like sunlight
that cannot help but peek through
the clouds in my heart.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
that cannot help but peek through
the clouds in my heart.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“You’ve been assigned an identity since birth. Then you spend the rest of your life walking around in it to see if it really fits. You try on all these different selves and abandon just as many. But really it’s about dismantling all that false armor, getting down to what’s real.”
—Going Bovine, Libba Bray (via aspen-tree)
“God gave us memory so that we might have roses in December.”
—J.M. Barrie (via misswallflower)
November 2011
“God grant me the serenity to accept the people I cannot change, the courage to change the one I can, and the wisdom to know it’s ME.”
—Unknown (via brillodelsol)
Azure
You were born of darkened ash
collecting sunbeams in your eyes
stolen from the desperate surrounding sand
begging to shine and glisten without you
But when the wind soon swept
the blackened cinders that bred you
I was there to be encased
by the blue glow of your gaze
I inched closer and closer
yearning to be enchanted by your touch
and soon we were together
laying and tangled in love
Never did you look away
when crimson blood dribbled from the belly of prey
Or when, from my chest, crimson blood did spray
where the claws of lustful beasts inevitably made their way
And in the nights, when the moon was orange and the sky was clear
You kissed all of my wounds and nibbled on my ear
and in the green spring we slept on a mountain tiering over the seaThis was our life, we had killed all our fears
On the first summer morning, after many nightmares
I awoke to a smell of burning
while new trade winds blew through my hair
My eyes opened to a sun blinding and searing my skin bare
You were sleeping right beside me,
and to caress your arm I dared
But as I reached out to touch
my only terror came as one
your body crumpled to dust
as new winds swept you under the sun
So I ran to the cliff and screamed at the air
“What have I done? she was my love, my only care”
I looked down at the ocean,
I saw the cerulean coast
And when I jumped I felt nothing
as I was swallowed by her ghost.
“Don’t wish me happiness
I don’t expect to be happy all the time…
It’s gotten beyond that somehow.
Wish me courage and strength and a sense of humor.
I will need them all.”― Anne Morrow Lindbergh
Devotion
The heart can think of no devotion
Greater than being shore to the ocean-
Holding the curve of one position,
Counting an endless repetition.
by: Robert Frost
“I am seeking, I am striving, I am in it with all my heart.”
—Vincent Van Gogh (via quote-book)
“You‘re always trying to get things to come out perfect in art because it’s really difficult in life.”
—Alvy Singer, Annie Hall (via gelasam)
“It is not easy to find happiness in ourselves, and it is not possible to find it elsewhere.”
—Agnes Repplier (via girlwithoutwings)
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
—Neil Gaiman (via jakesaw)
“Be not inhospitable to strangers lest they be angels in disguise.”
—Walt Whitman
“I am the sum total of everything that went before me, of all I have been seen done, of everything done-to-me. I am everyone everything whose being-in-the-world affected was affected by mine. I am anything that happens after I’m gone which would not have happened if I had not come.”
—Salman Rushdie ‘Midnight’s Children’ (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“Whatever you can do, or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.”
—J.W. Goethe (via kari-shma)
“Nobody says you must laugh, but a sense of humor can help you overlook the unattractive, tolerate the unpleasant, cope with the unexpected, and smile through the day.”
—Ann Landers (via reluctantbuddha)
“I always wonder why birds choose to stay in the same place when they can fly anywhere on the Earth. Then I ask myself the same question.”
—Harun Yahya (via adjectival)
“There are no uninteresting things, only uninterested people.”
—G.K. Chesterton (via misswallflower)
“Human beings are a part of the whole, called by us “the universe,” a part limited in time and space. We experience ourselves, our thoughts and feelings, as something separated from the rest—a kind of optical delusion of our consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison for us, restricting us to our own personal desires and to affection for a few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from this prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty.”
—Albert Einstein (via light-essence)
“Don’t read a book and be a follower; read a book and be a student.”
—Jim Rohn
“Opportunities multiply as they are seized.”
—Sun Tzu
“As we drive along this road called life, occasionally a gal will find herself a little lost. And when that happens, I guess she has to let go of the coulda, shoulda, woulda, buckle up and just keep going.”
—Carrie Bradshaw, Sex in the City
“Life doesn’t always happen according to a timetable or calendar. And feelings can’t be scheduled.”
—Jerry Spinelli (via misswallflower)
“Fantasy is escapist, and that is its glory. If a soldier is imprisoned by the enemy, don’t we consider it his duty to escape? If we value the freedom of mind and soul, if we’re partisans of liberty, then it’s our plain duty to escape, and to take as many people with us as we can!”
—J.R.R. Tolkien (via misswallflower)
“Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate facts, and they begin to rattle around inside of you.”
—E.L. Konigsburg (via julie911)
“The human race is governed by its imagination.”
—Napoleon Bonaparte
October 2011
“There is a reason I feel lost when I’m not with you. It’s not because of love - it’s just that you are what I’ve gotten used to.”
—This Day & Age (via berrynice)
