February 2012
“To move the world we must first move ourselves.”
– Socrates (via emotional-algebra)
“I will never write
anything that can capture
all you are to me.”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
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If you ask how I got so bitter, I'll ask how you...
“If I had to give you one piece of advice it would be this: Don’t be intimidated...”
– Paulo Coelho, from “Aleph” (via emotional-algebra)
“I think the idea is that every person has to live for his or her own life and...”
– Stephen Chbosky, The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via bookmania)
“The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may...”
– W.H. Auden (via misswallflower)
“Without great solitude, no serious work is possible.”
– Pablo Picasso (via nickzadrozny)
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– J.K. (via loviebeks)
“Let’s face it: I want it all— just like you and everybody else. It may not be in...”
– Lauren Bacall (via modernhepburn)
“Loneliness can be conquered only by those who can bear solitude.”
– ~Paul Tillich (via thesearepeopleyouknow)
brittanynicolfabry:
“I didn’t want to kiss you goodbye — that was the trouble — I wanted to kiss you goodnight. And there’s a lot of difference.”
Ernest Hemingway
This is perfect.
“Nature loves courage. You make the commitment and nature will respond to that...”
– Terence McKenna (via emotional-algebra)
“It doesn’t interest me where or what or with whom you have studied. I want to...”
– Oriah Mountain Dreamer (via emotional-algebra)
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“By being too sensitive I have wasted my life.”
– Arthur Rimbaud (via magicclouds)
File under things I’ll never have to say.
“I like change, she said, as long as I remember I like change.”
– Brian Andreas (via modernhepburn)
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But lonely is a freedom that breathes easy and weightless.
I saw this video in the summer of 2010. I definitely needed it then, and as I spend this week surrounded by reminders of that summer, I need it again. It popped up on pinterest today. Being alone can be okay, it can.
“People who really want to make a difference in the world usually do it, in one...”
– Beth Clark, Kisses from Katie (via emotional-algebra)
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“I’ve always avoided fights. I make jokes instead. I tell people what they want...”
– Jill A. Davis (via fuckoff-darling)
This reminds me of someone.
To whichever of you told him, you suck.
I told four people in person. Four people that I needed to tell during those weeks when I was scared. When I was feeling horrible, seeing doctors, and mainly because I needed to say it to someone, since I wasn’t going to tell him. Not telling him was my choice. I know there are at least three people that follow this blog (not sure why) that still speak with him, so I guess I got a narrow...
“I no longer believed in the idea of soul mates, or love at first sight. But I...”
– Lisa Kleypas (via modernhepburn)
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When I fly solo, I fly so high. Don’t touch me...
“The night is the hardest time to be alive and 4 am knows all my secrets.”
– Poppy Z. Brite (via apathie)
“I’m grateful for anything that reminds me of what’s possible in this life. Books...”
– Jonathon Safran Foer (via emotional-algebra)
“Faithfulness is proven in the seeming absence of a promise.”
– Jeff Dollar (via blakestratton)
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What's so simple in the moonlight by the morning...
“When I am with you, we stay up all night.
When you’re not here, I can’t go to...”
– Rumi (via emotional-algebra)
“Books are, let’s face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural...”
– Nick Hornby, The Polysyllabic Spree (via excessivebookshelf)
“To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is...”
– Roland Barthes (via change-your-lineweights)
“Now that I’ve made the commitment to myself, to enjoy my ride…everything seems...”
– Vicci Martinez (via emotional-algebra)
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I miss my best friend.
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via emotional-algebra)
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This is why I love quickienewyork. Yes, there is a...
quickienewyork:
I’m a 20 year old virgin woman. I want to have sex. I’ve had opportunities, but none of the men really interested me enough. I got turned on and all, just was meh. Is there something wrong with me? Should I wait for someone who means something or is losing your virginity not that big a deal?
Anonymous
The summer after my junior year of high school I spent every...
“I believe in kindness. Also in mischief. Also in singing, especially when...”
– Mary Oliver (via emotional-algebra)
“I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.”
– David Foster Wallace (via 4mbivalent)
