February 2012
111 posts
“Nothing is as contagious as enthusiasm. It is the real allegory of the myth of...”
– Samuel Taylor Coleridge (via jerzee55)
“I wondered if I could spend the rest of my life inventing complicated ways to...”
– Miranda July (via uncocoro)
“You have no responsibility to live up to what other people think you ought to...”
– Richard P. Feynman (via creatingaquietmind)
wabi-sabi
growing-orbits:
asymmetry, asperity, simplicity, economy, austerity, modesty, intimacy and appreciation of the ingenuous integrity of natural objects and processes—”if an object or expression can bring about, within us, a sense of serene melancholy and a spiritual longing, then that object could be said to be wabi-sabi.”
(with thanks to rabbit-light)
“I’m totally crazy, I know that. I don’t say that to be a smartass, but I know...”
– Maurice Sendak (via libraryland)
&etc: A Personal Conversation Amongst Trees, pt.1 →
flighttowardtheragingsea:
(David & Quinn sit in a tree, picking at pine needles as other trees slowly move around them, a la Dunsinane. They may or may not start dancing as the scene progresses.)
David: So what’s the deal? Talk to me.
Quinn: I don’t know that I can. I don’t know that talking, really, ultimately, is…
“When I thought of daughters
I wasn’t expecting this
but I like this more.
I...”
– Michael Ondaatje, from “To a Sad Daughter” (via growing-orbits)
“I write differently from what I speak, I speak differently from what I think, I...”
– Franz Kafka (via thechocolatebrigade)
“There is always one person you love who becomes that definition. It usually...”
– Chuck Klosterman (via cite-belle)
““My heart is a traitor,” the boy said to the alchemist, when they had paused to...”
– Paulo Coelho
This was one of my favorite books. It absolutely reminds me to always say what is in my heart, even if it isn’t well-received. The heart can not be silenced.
(via jecoart)
“There are names for what binds us:
strong forces, weak forces.
Look around,...”
– “What Binds Us” by Jane Hirshfield (via growing-orbits)
kirious asked: What's your favorite Shakespeare play and why?
“To me comfort is like the wrong memory at the wrong place or time: if one is...”
– “The End of the Affair” by Graham Greene (via gotflavorlikeicecream)
