July 2010
32 posts
“Decisions are the hardest thing to make especially when its a chance between...”
– (via kidlovesdoodles) (via poeticheartache)
You Are There | Erica Jong
quote-book: mizzchelle:
You are there. You have always been there. Even when you thought you were climbing you had already arrived. Even when you were breathing hard, you were at rest. Even then it was clear you were there. Not in our nature to know what is journey and what arrival. Even if we knew we would not admit. Even if we lived we would think we were just germinating....
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings...”
– Frank Herbert (Dune) (via quote-book)
“Everything tells me that I am about to make a wrong decision, but making...”
– Paulo Coelho (via thoughtsdetained)
“Being defeated is often a temporary condition. Giving up is what makes it...”
– Marilyn vos Savant | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book) (via tryingtofindthewords)
harbouring: Song, Adrienne Rich →
You’re wondering if I’m lonely: OK then, yes, I’m lonely as a plane rides lonely and level on its radio beam, aiming across the Rockies for the blue-strung aisles of an airfield on the ocean You want to ask, am I lonely? Well, of course, lonely as a woman driving across country day…
LOVE Rich’s poetry!!!
“A piece of paper may tell your past and present but it does not tell you who you...”
– Ralph Worley Sr. | awelcomedifference (via quote-book)
“Nobody can go back and start a new beginning, but anyone can start today and...”
– Maria Robinson (submitted by imanisamazing) (via quote-book)
“Do not seek to have everything that happens happen as you wish, but wish for...”
– Epictetus | (via awelcomedifference) (via quote-book)
“I have wasted years of my life agonizing about the fires I started when I...”
– Ampersand - Amanda Palmer (via fiendlikethee) (via quote-book)
“So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the...”
– Chris McCandless (via poeticheartache)
“You’re not perfect, sport, and let me save you the suspense: this girl...”
– “good will hunting”
“Without accepting the fact that everything changes, we cannot find perfect...”
– Shunryu Suzuki (from Zen habits) (via myserendipities)
“Some of us think holding on makes us strong; but sometimes it is letting go.”
– Herman Hesse (via todayithought) (via quote-book)
“Patience & Time do more than Strength or Passion”
– Jean de La Fontaine | via: vintagesunnies (via quote-book)
“Avoiding problems you need to face is avoiding the life you need to live.”
– Paulo Coelho (via thresca) (via quote-book)
“I stand in this parking lot, realizing that I’ve never been this far from home,...”
– John Green, Paper Towns (via thoughtsdetained)
20 Life Lessons I Learned in My 20’s →
poeticheartache:52hearts:
You can’t change who you are. You can only change what you know and how you apply this knowledge.
“The stronger their nostalgia, the emptier of recollections it becomes. The more...”
– milan kundera, ignorance
“What she wants now is love with no gratitude to it at all! And she knows that a...”
– milan kundera, ignorance
“Love is a temporary madness, it erupts like volcanoes and then subsides. And...”
– Louis de Bernières (via kari-shma)
“Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...”
– Susan Sontag (via julie911) (via quote-book)
From "Letters to a Young Poet," by Rainer Maria... →
inwaves: libraries:
Worpswede, near Bremen, July 16th, 1903 …You are so young, so before all beginning, and I want to beg you, as much as I can, dear sir, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and to try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue. Do not now seek the answers, which cannot be given to you...
“To love. To be loved. To never forget your own insignificance. To never get used...”
– Arundhati Roy (via julie911) (via quote-book)
“Accept everything about yourself—I mean everything, you are you and that is the...”
– Clark Moustakas (via kari-shma)
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like...”
– Azar Nafisi (via inwaves)
“At some point you will realize that you have done too much for someone, that the...”
– (via poeticheartache)
