December 2011
69 posts
“You alone are enough. You have nothing to prove to anybody.”
– Maya Angelou (via j (via free-wilderness)
“It is easier to live through someone else than to become complete yourself.”
– Betty Friedan (via girlwithoutwings)
“The collective disease of humanity is that people are so engrossed in what...”
– Eckhart Tolle (via nirvikalpa)
“In this world, it is very difficult to find a happy man — because nobody is...”
– Osho (via nirvikalpa)
pallid-fire:
“To hold her, to keep her, just as she was with her cruelty, her vulgarity, with her blinding blue eyes, with her miserable poetry, with her fat feet, with her impure dry sordid infantile soul. All of a sudden he thought if people are reunited in heaven — I don’t believe it but suppose – then how shall I stop it from creeping upon me, over me, that shriveled helpless lame thing, her...
“When did we see each other face-to-face? Not until you saw into my cracks and I...”
– John Green
But once the vessel cracks, the light can get in. The light can get out.
(via sealegslegssea)
“And so you go out with girl, and you’re driving. “So what are you reading right...”
– Henry Rollins (via tacoblitz)
“I will meet you on the nape of your neck one day,
on the surface of intention,...”
– Luke Davies, from “[In the yellow time of pollen]” (via proustitute)
the cinnamon peeler's wife: (101) →
clavicola:
We need lullabies in the morning more than we do at night. - - -
How many of you poets have written about the topography of your lover’s back at three in the morning?
Everything breaks before dawn. My spine cracks when I arch it, like I’m breaking in my bones for another Sunday.
The…
“There was a point in time when my mother would pride me on the maturity I showed...”
– natalie
this is really beautiful
(via sealegslegssea)
“Be drunk in love, since love is everything that exists.”
– Rumi (via nirvikalpa)
20 Essential Tracks of 2011 - #11 = 'Sadness is a...
theswordthestreets:
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“Let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier.”
– Mother Teresa (via nirvikalpa)
〇: Transforming Sadness and Depression: Decide... →
There was a Sufi mystic who remained happy his whole life- no one had ever seen him unhappy- who was always laughing, who was laughter, whose whole being was a perfume of celebration.
In his old age, when he was dying- on his deathbed and still enjoying, laughing hilariously- a disciple asked, “You puzzle us. You are still laughing; how are you managing it?”
The old man said, “It is simple. I...
clavicola:
Sometimes you just want to sit in the parking lot of a shopping complex with someone who will listen to you talk about silly little things and who’ll let you hold their hand and will smile, just smile, at you and sometimes that’s all you really need.
“The only way you can write the truth is to assume that what you set down will...”
– Margaret Atwood (via pavorst)
“Never use the word suddenly just to create tension.
-Writing Fiction
...”
– Tension by Billy Collins (via noeud-papillon-)
“To me you are a row of green characters, sounding lovely.
You are a flat...”
– d Halina Poswiatowska, A Letter (via clavicola)
clavicola:
Yo, want to send me links to some really inspirational goddamn motherfuckin videos? About art and the world and maybe even the history of beanie babies or something, I don’t know. Eh?
“Oh god it’s wonderful
to get out of bed
and drink too much coffee
and smoke...”
– Frank O’Hara (via fleurishes)
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clavicola:
Your words are fleshy peaches ripe, ripping, dripping down my chin staining my fingertips like summer.
I miss June.
The night before I left for Maryland I fell a little in something with you.
Two a.m. sitting across from you at the diner, I saw how your smile reached down to your lungs and I wanted to breathe you in Unfiltered.
Your laugh tastes like peaches, and I want to tie...
emma.c: for you: →
emmacherry:
a mix, here, for dark bedrooms and white sheets
-Afternoon by Youth Lagoon -Je Suis Une Enfant by Carla Bruni -Looking For Gold by Solander -I Think I Need a New Heart by The Magnetic Fields -Homesick by Kings Of Convenience -Pale Blue Eyes by The Velvet Underground -The…
“It was awful tasting medicine, but I guess the patient needed it. Sometimes life...”
– Steve Jobs, 2005 (via sabathaly)
Don't study hard, study well. Not just with your...
tumblraccountants:
and when you encounter an easy part, grab that opportunity to call yourself, Smart.
clavicola:
My English teacher and I are having an email relationship and it’s adorable and I want to bake her pies or bake her into pies or whatever people do with pies.
clavicola:
Shinji Moon, princess of Genovia
“Of all fires love is the only inexhaustible one.”
– Pablo Neruda (via girlwithoutwings)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via moufles)
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clavicola:
The thing I miss the most about us is the sound of my name on your tongue.
It’s greedy of me, I know, but in that exhale of me we possessed each other
completely.
clavicola:
Love Is Colder Than Death by The...
the cinnamon peeler's wife: I apologize beforehand... →
I apologize beforehand for falling in love with you. It hasn’t happened yet, but surely it will. And this isn’t necessarily to a single person, or directed to a selective heart, but rather, take this as a preemptive apology that I’m making on behalf of my heart, for I adore anyone who smiles at sunsets or gives coins to saxophonists on the street or drums their fingers against the steering wheel....
clavicola:
Slip Into Your Skin by Patrick...
the cinnamon peeler's wife: fleurishes: a is for... →
a is for
autumn, amor deliria nervosa, a la mode, azaleas, aquariums, aphrodite, astrology
it’s also for amortentia
and afternoons spent on beaches where the sun spills over your skin like some kind of baptism
a is for aurora borealis, for those great leaping lights in the sky that make you dizzy if you try to dance under them for too long like the whole alaskan tundra is your dance...