February 2012
17 posts
“Enter (I hope) the long sentence: the collection of clauses that is so...”
– Pico Iyer | The point of the long and winding sentence
“To deliver oneself up, hand oneself over, entrust oneself completely to the...”
– Thomas Merton
“When I am silent, I fall into the place where everything is music.”
– Rumi (via musingsinfemininity)
jessicavalenti:
“I have always thought of myself as the one daring enough to take a chance on...”
– Lauren Cerand (via melissa)
reblogging this again. because I would always rather have taken the risk than not.
(via champagnecandy)
“Love does not begin and end the way we seem to think it does. Love is a battle,...”
– James Baldwin (via creativedreadhead)
January 2012
129 posts
“Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.
You can never see your own face,...”
– Farid ud-Din Attar (via thingsthatremains)
Everything I Know About Love, I Learned From Cats... →
“Sometimes I think I have given out my love to too many ideas and places and...”
– WHERE I WRITE #21: On The Edge Of Sky And Sea - The Rumpus.net
“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives...”
– Howard Zinn (via joemccarthyblues)
“A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a...”
– Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy (via prettybooks)
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
– Rumi (via nakedineurope)
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and...”
– Dr. Patricia Hill Collins quoting Public Allies CEO Paul Schmitz in her talk Answering the Call to Community Service. (via sexartandpolitics)
A microcosm of one of the fundamental issues with the non-profit industrial complex.
(via myflagisblackandred)
how to be that kid but not do that thing.
“Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another...”
– Transformation And Transcendence: The Power Of Female Friendship - The Rumpus.net
“Let yourself be silently drawn by the strange pull of what you really love. It...”
– Rumi (via nezua)
“What is the fear inside language? No accident of the body can make it stop...”
– Anne Carson, “Kinds of Water” in Plainwater (adapted from everythingwillburn)
“Because of all this want, we sometimes are afraid we feel too much. Some of us...”
– The Throwaways - The Rumpus.net
“Ate 26 ounces of nutella in two days. FML.”
– Ate 26 ounces of nutella in two days. F… « Yale FML
GPOY
“And I became brave. I became brave because everything that distracts me from the...”
– A Memorandum Of Ghosts - The Rumpus.net
“All great and precious things are lonely.”
– John Steinbeck, East of Eden (via praetendere)
“Perhaps when we find ourselves wanting everything, it is because we are...”
– Sylvia Plath (via roscoe-)