May 2012
“Genuine creativity needs a collision of ideas, something that will never happen...”
– Ian Gilbert on the five steps of ideation in a field guide to creativity (via explore-blog)
“I promise to plant kisses like seeds on your body, so in time you can grow to...”
– Tyler Knott Gregson (via naturalrecovery)
April 2012
“We walked along the river with the words streaming behind us like ribbons in the...”
– Sue Monk Kidd (via amandaonwriting)
“No one’s life should be rooted in fear. We are born for wonder, for joy, for...”
– Dean Ray Koontz (via misswallflower)
“Don’t wish it were easier. Wish you were better.”
– Jim Rohn
“I have love in me the likes of which you can scarcely imagine and rage the likes...”
– Mary Shelley, Frankenstein (via loveyourchaos)
“We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.”
– George Orwell (via misswallflower)
“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald (via narcotic)
“A schoolchild should be taught grammar—for the same reason that a medical...”
– E.B. White
“The quieter you become, the more you can hear.”
– Ram Dass (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“They say time heals all wounds, but that presumes the source of the grief is...”
– Cassandra Clare (via amandaonwriting)
“I want to get more familiar with you. I love you. I loved you when you came and...”
– Henry Miller (via little-harmonica)
“A sweater is made entirely from knots. To think, my stomach could clothe an...”
– Andrea Gibson (via speak-slow)
Wild Geese
blogut:
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the...
“I wish I could show you,
when you are lonely or in darkness,
the astonishing...”
– Hafiz (via transformfeminism)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people around you, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via blankpagesandinvisibleink)
“Nothing is more terrifying than fearlessness.”
– Cornelia Funke (via amandaonwriting)
“Happiness isn’t what happens when you whistle along, pretending bad things don’t...”
– Marisa de los Santos (via kari-shma)
“So we beat on, boats against the current, borne back ceaselessly into the past.”
– from The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Something’s gotta give,
it may as well be our fingers.
Touch me, ‘til my ribs...”
– Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
“In this world
love has no color
yet how deeply
my body
is stained by yours.”
– Izumi Shikibu
“I guess by now I should know enough about loss to realize that you never really...”
– Alyson Noel, (Evermore)
“I am somehow less interested in the weight and convolutions of Einstein’s brain...”
– Stephen Jay Gould
“Stars, hide your fires; Let not light see my black and deep desires.”
– William Shakespeare
“It’s not the word made flesh we want in writing, in fiction, and in poetry, but...”
– William Gass, On Being Blue (via libraryland)
“The French have a phrase for it. The bastards have a phrase for everything and...”
– Raymond Chandler (via amandaonwriting)
“The best way to find out if you can trust somebody is to trust them.”
– Ernest Hemingway (via kari-shma)
“The syntactical nature of reality, the real secret of magic, is that the world...”
– Terence McKenna
“You know when I said I knew little about love? That wasnt
true. I know a lot...”
– Neil Gaiman- Stardust movie (via justbesplendid)
In the Middle
heartuntamed:
of a life that’s as complicated as everyone else’s, struggling for balance, juggling time. The mantle clock that was my grandfather’s has stopped at 9:20; we haven’t had time to get it repaired. The brass pendulum is still, the chimes don’t ring. One day I look out the window, green summer, the next, the leaves have already fallen, and a grey sky lowers the horizon. Our...
“Orthodoxy means not thinking-not needing to think. Orthodoxy is unconsciousness.”
– George Orwell, 1984 (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“You mistake her name for the moon
Mistake porch lights for the stars
And...”
– Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anaïs Nin (US -French-born- author & diarist (1903 - 1977)
“If you don’t define yourself for yourself, then you will be crushed into others’...”
– Audre Lorde (via exvin)
“Never confuse a single defeat with a final defeat.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Remember that there are only three kinds of things anyone need ever do. (1)...”
– Advice to children from C. S. Lewis. (via explore-blog)
“Being bored is a kind of diagnostic for the gap between what you might be...”
– Clay Shirky, brilliant as ever, on the future of reading. (via explore-blog)
“As long as we are children, we have the ability to experience things around...”
– Jostein Gaarder (The Solitaire Mystery)
“One day, you realise that there are some people you’ll never see again. At...”
– Iain Thomas, I Wrote This For You (via slutsuey) 