January 2010
109 posts
“Have you ever lost yourself in a kiss? I mean pure psychedelic inebriation. Not...”
– SAUL WILLIAMS Said the Shotgun to the Head (via tobia) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via nosceteipsum)
“We are travelers on a cosmic journey,stardust,swirling and dancing in the eddies...”
– Paulo Coelho
nosceteipsum:
Meanwhile apart, in the twilight gloom of a window’s embrasure,
Sat the lovers, and whispered together, beholding the moon rise
Over the pallid sea and the silvery mist of the meadows.
Silently one by one, in the infinite meadows of heaven,
Blossomed the lovely stars, the forget-me-nots of the angels.
- henry wadsworth longfellow, “evangeline: a tale of acadie”
“What if that fear went away tomorrow? What if we all assumed, just for a day,...”
– BroadSnark | Irrational Fears and the Status Quo (via clingtomymouth)
“As Howard Zinn has often pointed out, history told from above — from the...”
– Viggo Mortensen
“Let’s talk about how many times a woman gets called “intimidating” just for...”
– Tiger Beatdown › Girl Culture and the Race to the Bottom: About that Rant About Women (via bthny) (via halvgal) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via katoleary) (via clingtomymouth)
“Dreams are always crushing when they don’t come true. But it’s the simple dreams...”
– littleteaspoon (via cardboardcherry) (via blinksoflife) (via coccaonthinks) (via booklover) (via anin)
“No society has been able to abolish human sadness, no political system can...”
– Eugène Ionesco (via nihilnoetia) (via booklover) (via anin)
“Human life. Duration: momentary. Nature: changeable. Perception: dim. Condition...”
– Marcus Aurelius (via thejoyofrain) (via booklover) (via anin)
“… our thoughts are shackled by the familiar. The brain is a neural tangle of...”
– Jonah Lehrer on the creative benefits of travel via The Frontal Cortex. (via somethingchanged) (via anin)
“It’s difficult to ever go back to the same places or people. You turn away, even...”
– Gabrielle Zevin, Elsewhere (via julie911) (via kari-shma) (via souplines) (via anin)
“So now you must choose… Are you a child who has not yet become world-weary? Or...”
– — Jostein Gaarder (Sophie’s World) (via justbesplendid) (via chaotique) (via bridgettelizabeth)(via gypsyanatomy)(via lastchatwithphontaine)(via nihilnoetia)
(via booklover)
(via anin)
“At its core, movies are about dissolution: we forget about ourselves and become...”
– Jonah Lehrer on the science behind how a brilliant movie - like Avatar - quietens the brain’s constant processing and introspection. (via somethingchanged) (via delayprocrastinate) (via anin)
“There are three things you need to be happy in life—someone to love,...”
“The lonely are such delicate things”
– The Shins (via allegra) (via suicideunderground) (via milktrees) (via thingsgohazy) (via nothingmuchtotell)
“Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured...”
“Sadness, scarab
with seven crippled feet,
spiderweb egg,
scramble-brained...”
–
Ode to Sadness by Pablo Neruda
I'm a person made entirely of flaws, stitched...
(via oohmelissa)
girlwithherheadintheclouds:
I’m not scared of falling in love, I’m scared that I’ll never find someone who loves me back.
“I can’t go back to yesterday - because I was a different person then.”
– Lewis Carroll (via nothingmuchtotell)
“Reading “Book of Genesis”; apparently marriage is intended for one man and one...”
– Colin Meloy (via allecto)
“[Feminists are] just women who don’t want to be treated like shit.”
– Su, an Australian women interviewed for the 1996 anthology DIY Feminism (via noteasybeingred) (via letstalkequality) (via tiredofbeingignored) (via cocknbull)
“What you’re describing is typical Madonna/Whore complex hetero-male bullshit...”
– Dan Savage (via cocknbull)
“Any lingering shame over who or what you were in ‘days gone by’ is like a newly...”
– guy_finley (via peterreyes) (via cocknbull)
“How should we define ourselves? We’d better not even try. The moment you put a...”
– Eric Maisel (via cocknbull)
“We are not on the playground anymore. There are new rules. We have to be mature,...”
– Michael Scott, The Office (via cocknbull)
“Everyone is entitled to his own opinion, but not his own facts.”
– Daniel Patrick Moynihan (via allecto)
