February 2012
15 posts
“If we wait for the moment when everything, absolutely everything is ready, we...”
– Ivan Turgenev (via thatkindofwoman)
January 2012
32 posts
“Before you quit, try.”
– Ernest Hemingway. (via thatkindofwoman)
“You want a job, a vacation, heath insurance, validation, a back rub, a scalp...”
– Ryan O’Connell, What 20-Somethings Want (via colporteur)
“If a home doesn’t make sense, nothing does.”
– Henrietta Ripperger
“Life is painful and messed up. It gets complicated at the worst of times, and...”
– Alysha Speer (via youngfolksociety)
“I was always somebody. I was famous at the Chevron. I’ve had some trials that...”
– Young Jeezy is my life coach. (via howtotalktogirlsatparties)
“Only what you are not giving can be lacking in any situation.”
– Course in Miracles
“Failure is simply the opportunity to begin again, this time more intelligently.”
– Henry Ford (via modernhepburn)
“I fell in love the way you fall asleep: slowly, and then all at once.”
– John Green, The Fault in Our Stars (via modernhepburn)
“‘Do you fall in love often?’ Yes often. With a view, with a book, with a dog, a...”
– Jeanette Winterson (via modernhepburn)
“I learned that courage was not the absence of fear, but the triumph over it. The...”
– Nelson Mandela (via quote-book)
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter... →
youmightfindyourself:
New York November 10, 1958
Dear Thom:
We had your letter this morning. I will answer it from my point of view and of course Elaine will from hers.
First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing that can happen to anyone. Don’t let anyone make it small or light to you.
Second — There are several kinds of love. One is a selfish, mean,...
“The real voyage of discovery lies not in seeking new lands, but in seeing with...”
– Marcel Proust
“To those who stay put, the world is but an imaginary place. But to the movers,...”
– unknown
“Do not let your fire go out, spark by irreplaceable spark, in the hopeless...”
– - Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
(via vainbuthonest)
“Faith is a first step even when you don’t see a whole staircase.”
– MLK
“Meditate. Live purely. Be quiet. Do your work with mastery.
Like the moon, come...”
– Siddhartha Gautama
“Most of the shadows of this life are caused by our standing in our own sunshine.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
Winter Trees
All the complicated details of the attiring and the disattiring are completed! A liquid moon moves gently among the long branches. Thus having prepared their buds against a sure winter the wise trees stand sleeping in the cold.
-William Carlos Williams
“A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.”
– John Lennon
“I would like to be able to touch a bell
and call up my real self, the truly me,...”
– Pablo Neruda
“Well, I like to eat, sleep, drink, and be in love.”
– Langston Hughes
(via thatkindofwoman)
A Place to Lay My Heart →
youmightfindyourself:
By ELISABETH EAVES NY Times Published: January 5, 2012
“But a few years into my 30s, ambivalence began to creep up every time I bought another plane ticket. Traveling for the fun of it was morphing into traveling out of sheer momentum. I felt the first tickles of envy for friends who were rooted. They had a gravitational pull that I lacked, drawing people to...
Beginners
Hal: Well let's say...let's say since you were little, you've always dreamed of someday getting a lion. And you wait, and you wait, and you wait, and you wait and the lion doesn't come. Then along comes a giraffe. You can be alone, or you can be with the giraffe.
Oliver: I'd wait for the lion.
Hal: That's why I worry about you.
“Life moves on, whether we act as cowards or heroes. Life has no other discipline...”
– Henry Miller
“Be in love with your life. Every detail of it.”
– Jack Kerouac (via thatkindofwoman)
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Francis Bacon (via youngfolksociety) 