May 2013
Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they...
– Anaïs Nin (via cosmic-rebirth)
He who laughs at himself never runs out of things to laugh at.
– Epictetus (via erraticintrovert)
The ‘paradox’ is only a conflict between reality and your feeling of what...
– Richard Feynman (via we-are-star-stuff)
She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
– Angela Carter, ”Black Venus” (via petrichour)
I know not all that may be coming, but be it what it will, I’ll go to it...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick (via likeafieldmouse)
Artists are either adored or damned, but never really understood.
– Jeff Buckley (via moodswingwhiskey)
We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more...
– Anthony Marra, from “A Constellation of Vital Phenomena” (via mirroir)
At certain times, a silent mind is very important, but ‘silent’ does not mean...
– Lama Yeshe (via neuromanticism)
There are two powers in the world; one is the sword and the other is the pen....
– Muhammed Ali Jinnah
(via prodesseq)
I have a deeply hidden and inarticulate desire for something beyond the daily...
– Virginia Woolf (via natural-magics)
12 Reasons Why You'll Be Happier in a Smaller Home... →
Nobody gives them permission to pursue smaller, rather than larger. Nobody gives them the reasons they may actually be happier in a smaller house.
The voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via weaverofstars)
Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in...
– Deepak Chopra (via thatkindofwoman)
I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...
– Franz Kafka (via lntact)
The Earth is a host that murders its guests.
But what can die?
All dying just...
– Hafiz (via sethmefree)
I have learned silence from the talkative, tolerance from the intolerant and...
– Kahlil Gibran (via virgincashmere)
I desired always to stretch the night and fill it fuller and fuller with dreams.
– Virginia Woolf (via sequences)
Keep me up until five only because all your stars are out, and for no other...
– J.D Salinger, from Seymour: An Introduction (via violentwavesofemotion)
They lived and laughed and loved and left.
– James Joyce (via stxxz)
Addiction is tricky. For example: a man who quit smoking for 11 years spent 15...
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We die to each other daily. What we know of other people is only our memory of...
– T.S. Eliot, The Cocktail Party (via larmoyante)
nobodycangiveyoufreedom:
We must become so alone, so utterly alone, that we withdraw into our innermost self. It is a way of bitter suffering. But then our solitude is overcome, we are no longer alone, for we find that our innermost self is the spirit, that it is God, the indivisible. And suddenly we find ourselves in the midst of the world, yet undisturbed by its multiplicity, for our innermost...
Painting is not an aesthetic operation; it is a form of magic designed as...
– Pablo Picasso (via a-l-ancien-regime)
Find meaning. Distinguish melancholy from sadness. Go out for a walk. It doesn’t...
– Albert Camus (via astronotica)