November 2011
Just when I'm trying to be responsible...
…and grade papers…
I get an invitation to go bowling/dancing with a Russian, a Swede, an Icelander,two Italians and a Kazakh…who could turn that down????
Ugh, I swear I make good decisions in an alternate universe…somewhere. ;)
“It is not that I love you less
Than when before your feet I lay,
But to...”
– Edmund Waller, from “The Self Banished” (via proustitute)
“You have so many layers, that you can peel away a few, and everyone’s so shocked...”
– Craig Thompson, Carnet de Voyage (via creatingaquietmind)
“Anything that gets your blood racing is probably worth doing.”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via aorrta)
“I keep thinking you already know. I keep thinking I’ve sent you letters that...”
– I Wrote This For You: The Invisible Postal Service (via kari-shma)
“Freethinkers are those who are willing to use their minds without prejudice and...”
– Leo Tolstoy (via bachsweets)
“To hell, to hell with balance! I break glasses; I want to burn, even if I break...”
– Anaïs Nin (via thenocturnals)
“She finds it difficult to believe—that a person would love her even when she...”
– Margaret Atwood (via rockandrollandrobin)
“Anyone who falls in love is searching for the missing pieces of themselves. It’s...”
– Haruki Murakami
“Learn to value yourself, which means: fight for your happiness.”
– Ayn Rand (via thefreenomad)
“We’ve got a sort of brainwashing going on in our country, Morrie sighed. Do you...”
– Mitch Albom (Tuesdays With Morrie)
“Please don’t let me stop thinking and start blindly frightenedly accepting! I...”
– Sylvia Plath, Journals of (Source: fuckyeahexistentialism, via moonmoth)
“I’ve always envied people who sleep easily. Their brains must be cleaner, the...”
– David Benioff
as i’m on tumblr because i can’t sleep.
(via rockandrollandrobin)
slinkster-cool:
when my sheets are begging for another body beneath, i wish you’d show up at my doorstep in nothing but your good pair of shoes
“And it came to me then. That we were wonderful traveling companions but in the...”
– Haruki Murakami
“I must learn to love the fool in me—the one who feels too much, talks too much,...”
– Theodore I. Rubin (via rockandrollandrobin)
“Live, travel, adventure, bless, and don’t be sorry.”
– Jack Kerouac (via overturetoalabasterskin)
Rain, by Jack Gilbert
ffolkthepainaway:
Suddenly this defeat. This rain. The blues gone gray And the browns gone gray And yellow A terrible amber. In the cold streets Your warm body. In whatever room Your warm body. Among all the people Your absence The people who are always Not you. I have been easy with trees Too long. Too familiar with mountains. Joy has been a habit. Now Suddenly This rain.
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
– Isadora Duncan (via misswallflower)
“I wanna be the thought that slips your mind, the thought that makes you come to...”
– Andrea Gibson (via loveyourchaos)
“Why are we so full of restraint? Why do we not give in all directions? Is it...”
– Henry Miller (via misswallflower)
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“leaving is not enough; you must
stay gone. train your heart
like a dog. change...”
– —Marty McConnell, “Frida Kahlo to Marty McConnell”
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“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with...”
– One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
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“I’ve got to tell you
how I love you always
I think of it on grey...”
– Morning
Frank O’Hara
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“Heart, we will forget him!
You and I, tonight!
You may forget the warmth he...”
– Emily Dickinson
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“The time will come
when, with elation
you will greet yourself arriving
at...”
– Derek Walcott, Love After Love
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“because this is what you do. get up.
blame the liquor for the heaviness. call...”
– Survival Poem #17 Marty McConnell
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“Well, I have lost you; and I lost you fairly;
In my own way, and with my full...”
– Well, I Have Lost You, by Edna St. Vincent Millay
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“let it go-the
smashed word broken
open vow or
the oath cracked length...”
– e.e. cummings
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“Never offer your heart
to someone who eats hearts
who finds heartmeat...”
– Alice Walker
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“Time does not bring relief; you all have lied
Who told me time would ease me of...”
– This sonnet of Edna St. Vincent Millay’s
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“I have always much more enjoyed the conversations of men in jail than I have...”
– charles bukowski notes of a dirty old man
“Put a few words together prettily and it’s possible
to fall in love.
Move your...”
– Missy-Marie Montgomery, Arrangement (via grammatolatry)
Knowledge Applied Is Power: Gandhi's top 10 →
staycentered:
1. Change “You must be the change you want to see in the world.” “As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world – that is the myth of the atomic age – as in being able to remake ourselves.”
2. Control. “Nobody can hurt me without…
“There comes a point when you just love someone. Not because they’re good, or...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton (via rhetoricalities)
“He kissed her without enjoying it. He knew that there was passion there, but...”
– Tender Is The Night by F.Scott Fitzgerald (via letsgobananas) 