January 2012
bettacomecorrect:
10 Ways to Love Others
caitsmeissner:
thelittlesea:
Some guidelines for loving:
1. Tell them about their brilliance. They likely can’t see it and they don’t know its immensity, but you can see it, and you can illuminate it for them.
2. Be authentic, and give others the gift of the real you and a real relationship. Ask your real questions. Share your real beliefs. Go for...
“A statement about luck is a statement about the mind, not about the world…...”
– Eric Kraft, “I Consider My Luck,” from Brothers and Beasts: An Anthology of Men on Fairy Tales
“The moment one definitely commits oneself, then Providence moves as well. All...”
– Goethe, by attribution
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via suzywire)
“Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via imfantasyparade)
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Illegal as a noun
sinidentidades:
Illegal being turned into a noun is by far the most ruthlessly effective way to dehumanize and demonize an entire group of people, which is why it is propagated by mass media and politicians to vilify these people as outsiders and aggressors of the state to justify the systematic abuse and exploitation these people are faced with on a daily basis.
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“He broke my heart. You merely broke my life.”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via honeychurch)
rightwritecj:
It all means the same thing. Don’t search for the words that might mean something more. I wrote them all the same.
My room is the perfect temperature. My day with friends was nice. My weekend is looking good. The week passed by quite alright.
So, you say I’m drinking too much but I need to forget so that I can remember how much I need you.
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“I don’t move on well. I sit in a box labeled “Past Things.” One of those boxes...”
– Michelle King, If I Loved You Less, You’d Probably Love Me (via juneandafter)
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june and after: What Moving On Is Like →
juneandafter:
Moving on is not like a birthday, you can’t count down the hours ‘til it arrives and you can’t mark it on a calendar and you can’t call up your friends to help you celebrate. You can’t plan for it and you can’t conclude it by blowing out a candle. When moving on happens there will be no…
My literature defines me, it shapes me, and...
peaceful-wanderer:
I could explain to you in detail the stop in which I bought my favourite book. A second hand book store in northern ontario over looking the lake. A could explain to you in great detail where I was at the moment I first opened the pages of this book and found myself engrossed in it. Sitting in a hammock looking out at the Georgian Bay waters of Ontario. I could also tell you...
“Comrades, there is no true social revolution without the liberation of women....”
– Thomas Sankara, International Women’s Day, 1987 (via artifist)
“I’m almost never serious, and I’m always too serious. Too deep, too shallow. Too...”
– Ferdinand von Schrubentauffrt (via suzywire)
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December 2011
“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”
– John Steinbeck (via apna-pragmatic-munna)
New Years Resolutions
clavicola:
This year I’ll make myself another promise that I’ll be better, that I’ll lose those ten pounds I gained when I was sad and indifferent. I’ll be kinder; flip more pennies face-up; be a masked vigilante in my own fucked-up reality. I’ll tell myself that this, this is the year. Now is the chance, the big change, my metamorphosis. I’ll peel off my cocoon and emerge with wings that span...
“The world is divided into those who screw and those who do not. He distrusted...”
– Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via thechocolatebrigade)
“If there is such a thing as marriage, it takes place long before the ceremony;...”
– Simon Van Booy (via anatomyalice)
“I’m glad mushrooms are against the law, because I took them one time, and you...”
– Bill Hicks (via sirmitchell)
“I thought my fire was out,
and stirred the ashes….
I burnt my fingers.”
– Antonio Machado (via elina-astra)
“A story should be told only when a listener is ready to hear it.”
– Julian, The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
“Oh, love isn’t there to make us happy. I believe it exists to show us how much...”
– Herman Hesse (via @johannal)
Leslie Knope: I did a little research, and divorce is the number two most stressful event in a person's life. Of course marriage is number seven. So, watch out everyone. It's all bad.