February 2012
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For a Girl Becoming
Don’t forget how you started your journey from the rainbow house. How you traveled and will travel through the mountains and valleys of human tests. There are treacherous places along the way, but you can come to us.
There are lakes of tears shimmering sadly there,…
“We should conform very closely to the cosmic order.
We should look at our...”
– Dogen Zenji (via bodhijourney)
“When you’ve got nothing, you’ve got nothing to lose.”
– Bob Dylan (via thenocturnals)
“You will know that forgiveness has begun when you recall those who hurt you and...”
– Lewis B. Smedes (via kari-shma)
“Who can feel ugly when the heart meets delight? It is as if, somewhere inside,...”
– Till We Have Faces: A Myth Retold by C.S. Lewis (via forevamor)
“You came into the heart of our grief.
This is a house dressed in black.”
– Euripides, Alkestis, translated by Anne Carson in Grief Lessons (via proustitute)
“A diary like this, with so many blank pages, seems to reflect a life permeated...”
– The Way Forward is With a Broken Heart by Alice Walker (via thechocolatebrigade)
lovely yet difficult day. went to the city with my parents. they had work so i just bopped around soho and shopped.
what should have been a carefree day though…wasn’t.
i had a really good time. but just the walking around, the traveling, the lack of routine…made me significantly sicker and weakened me to the point that i’ve fallen ill with something nasty.
it’s...
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“Into this wilde Abyss the warie fiend Stood on the brink of Hell and look’d a while, Pondering his Voyage; for no narrow frith He had to cross.”
- John Milton
“We need more light about each other. Light creates understanding, understanding...”
– Malcolm X (via elige)
“Basically what we have here is a dreamer. Somebody out of touch with reality....”
– Jeffery Eugenides, Virgin Suicides (via missbelladawson)
“None of it was worth the trouble of a glance, it was all a lie, it all stank, it...”
– Herman Hesse, Siddhartha (via secondwaffle)
“ … a hare paused amid the gorse and trembling bellflowers and said its prayer to...”
– Rimbaud (via robbienolan)
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“Keep removing elements until you’ve removed that one element without which your...”
– David duChemin Within the Frame: The Journey of Photographic Vision (via )
tough night. health is quite bad. trying to hold in there and get through it all but i’m very tired. it’s almost impossible to get sleep anymore.
however i have downton abbey to cheer me up! crossing my fingers that mary and matthew finally consummate their love
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“All the things that girls feel they are not when they fear that if they become,...”
– The Rose and the Beast: Fairy Tales Retold by Francesca Lia Block (via lostinthesounds)
“What amazed me at the beginning and still amazes me about the creative process...”
– Joy Harjo, How We Became Human (via tiptoelightlypastmymind)
“the only way we know it’s true is that we both dreamed it.That’s what reality...”
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“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up (via b1rdsofafeather)
“I don’t want to repeat my innocence. I want the pleasure of losing it again.”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side Of Paradise (via emotional-algebra)
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slippery-words:
“Am I to bless the lost you, sitting here with my clumsy soul? Propaganda time is over I sit here on the spike of truth.”
-From “The Inventory of Goodbye,” by Anne Sexton
“Some nights it’s bound to be your best way out,
When nightmare is the short end...”
– Howard Nemerov, Insomnia I (via memoriesfadexx)
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The Wolves
The man becomes a wolf.
Wolves have no wives.
Woods are obedient to god.
Night is the fur within which day grows.
The holy spirit has a taste for human blood.
Men have the blood of wild dogs.
Teeth are the first bones to die.
Knives are the tools of descent.
The widow’s friend is a wolf.
The wolf is the woods’ knife.
Dawn remembers the dawn of man.
Snow is the substance...
“She was beautiful, but she was beautiful in the way a forest fire was beautiful.”
– Neil Gaiman (via laesenbog)
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it...”
– The Buddha (via hipstermooseonthedeathstar)
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“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via northernsoulforever)
“This is why I say, when people ask what religion I follow, ‘I don’t believe in...”
– Ahgori Vimalananda (via lucifelle)
“Whatever inspiration is, it’s born from a continuous ‘I don’t know’.”
– Wislawa Szymborska, from her Nobel Prize acceptance speech (Yes. Thank you, kateoplis)
“If you are thinking 1 year ahead, plant seeds.
If you are thinking 10 years...”
– Emperor Kuan Tsu (5th century BC China)
“The sign of a beautiful person is that he always sees beauty in others.”
– Omar Suleiman (via elige)
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“He had driven half the night
From far down San Joaquin
Through Mariposa, up...”
– Gary Snyder, ‘Hay for the Horses’ (via itgivesitthew)