May 2013
6 posts
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...
– Bell Hooks (via mishproductions)
Education, in order to keep up the mighty delusion, encourages a species of...
–
Okakura Kakuzō | The Book of Tea
(via blogut)
Out of suffering have emerged the strongest souls; the most massive characters...
– Kahlil Gibran (via quote-book)
Whatever you desire is already connected in some way to who you are and what you...
– Ralph Marston (via creatingaquietmind)
I don’t know the secret to success, but the secret to failure is trying to...
– Bill Cosby (via quote-book)
Let them miss you. Sometimes when you’re always available, they take you for...
– Anonymous (via colourations)
April 2013
1 post
March 2013
5 posts
We are more interested in making others believe we are happy than in trying to...
– Francois de la Rochefoucauld (via quote-book)
1 tag
February 2013
6 posts
January 2013
5 posts
Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care...
– The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan (via commovente)
Freedom is not the absence of commitments, but the ability to choose - and...
– Paulo Coelho (via quote-book)
I am half agony, half hope.
– Jane Austen (via imfantasyparade)
The moment you doubt whether you can fly, you cease for ever to be able to do...
– J. M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via eirenics)
Thinking. Writing. Listening. Being.
December 2012
15 posts
If you come to read. I will write.
If I were to write a story right now it would consist of purely frustrated fury and the burden of having to hold it in and suppress it until it dies.
You see I usually find myself among strangers because I drift here and there...
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via giganti)
Not all who wander are lost.
– J. R. R. Tolkien (via laceofpearls)
People think being alone makes you lonely, but I don’t think that’s true. Being...
– Kim Culbertson (via kari-shma)
Not till we are lost, in other words not till we have lost the world, do we...
– Henry David Thoreau | Walden (via blogut)
There’s power in looking silly and not caring that you do
– Amy Poehler (via amypoehler)
November 2012
4 posts
I think there’s something sexy about being a little off.
– Marc Jacobs (via marcjacobs)
Closing your eyes isn’t going to change anything. Nothing’s going to disappear...
– Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via creatingaquietmind)
It’s gonna take a while. It’s normal to take a while. You’ve just gotta fight...
– Ira Glass (via quote-book)
October 2012
6 posts
Don’t say anything, because I see that you understand me, and I am afraid of...
– Anais Nin (via 1000scientists)
September 2012
1 post
Use what talent you possess: the woods would be very silent if no birds sang...
– Henry Van Dyke