December 2010
52 posts
“True love begins when nothing is looked for in return.”
– Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Le Petit Prince (via dira)
“When we were children, we used to think that when we grew up, we would no longer...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via makingdens)
“All our fights and lies made us stronger. Thats where you can tell if its real...”
– Edyl Patrick Victoria (via quote-book)
“I don’t want to be married just to be married. I can’t think of anything...”
– Mary Ann Shaffer (via kari-shma)
“Grace is not something to be acquired from others.
If it is external, it is...”
– Ramana Maharshi. Thank you, The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”
– Franz Kafka (via libraryland)
“I can’t remember that date or what you wore or what the weather was like on the...”
– Dean Walley (via the-exchange)
List: Things I Have Loved to the Point of Tears...
[in my early teens:]
1. Jimmy Page :)
2. An Edgar Allan Poe Poem called “Alone”… I memorized it, quoted it, read it aloud to a tape recorder, wrote it in the front of my school notebook, etc., etc.
3. Simply BEING in a bookstore (obviously, this was before working in one.)
4. Sunsets
5. Feeling that someone understood me
[in my late teens/early twenties:]
1. Jonathan...
“Stupidity is the twin sister of reason: it grows most luxuriously not on the...”
– Witold Gombrowicz (via libraryland)
oceanofmind:
“Actually, we have no problems - we have opportunities for which we should give thanks… An error we refuse to correct has many lives. It takes courage to face one’s own shortcomings and wisdom to do something about them.”
— Edgar Cayce
“The purpose of relationship is not to have another who might complete you, but...”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via oceanofmind)
“But because truly being here is so much; because everything here
apparently...”
– rainer maria rilke. (via terrestrial)
“The trick is to stand not knowing certain things long enough for them to come to...”
– Lynda Barry via Sussanah Breslin (via theantidote)
