June 2012
“We cross our bridges when we come to them, and burn them behind us, with nothing...”
– Tom Stoppard (via kari-shma)
“When I am silent, I have thunder hidden inside.”
– Rumi (via ninefoldgoddess)
“Scratch the surface of most cynics and you find a frustrated idealist — someone...”
– Peter Senge (via onehundreddollars)
“Every morning he told himself he was no longer ill, and one morning he realized...”
– Magnificent Ruin (via nevver)
“Here is a mystery,
a person, an
other, an I?”
– Denise Levertov, from “When We Look Up” (thank you, sharingpoetry)
“David Lipsky’s 2008 article on Wallace in Rolling Stone quotes Jonathan Franzen...”
– David Foster Wallace and The Velveteen Rabbit - James Warner
This hits unpleasantly close to home. I have also really been wanting to re-read Although Of Course You End Up Becoming Yourself. Finishing White Teeth first though.
(via taekwonjew)
Devyn come look at this
let’s talk about this
also...
“After all these years, I am still involved in the process of self-discovery....”
– Sophia Loren (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
“The most common form of despair is not being who you are.”
– Soren Kierkegaard (via alecshao)
“We do compose a soul for ourselves, an inner biography that has the grace of...”
– Les Murray, The Art of Poetry No. 89 , with thanks to theparisreview (via growing-orbits)
