julia.

Month

January 2012

126 posts

“

Your face is neither infinite nor ephemeral.
You can never see your own face,
only a reflection, not the face itself.

So you sigh in front of mirrors
and cloud the surface.

It’s better to keep your breath cold.
Hold it, like a diver does in the ocean.
One slight movement, the mirror-image goes.

Don’t be dead or asleep or awake.
Don’t be anything.

What you most want,
what you travel around wishing to find,
lose yourself as lovers lose themselves,
and you’ll be that.

”
—Farid ud-Din Attar (via thingsthatremains)
Jan 31, 201257 notes
Jan 31, 201216,907 notes
Jan 31, 201219,201 notes
Jan 31, 201226,579 notes
Jan 31, 201215,438 notes
Jan 31, 20123,389 notes
Everything I Know About Love, I Learned From Cats « Thought Catalog → thoughtcatalog.com
Jan 31, 2012
“Sometimes I think I have given out my love to too many ideas and places and books and films, and have not saved enough for people.” —WHERE I WRITE #21: On The Edge Of Sky And Sea - The Rumpus.net
Jan 30, 2012
Jan 29, 201273 notes
Jan 29, 201242,090 notes
“We were not born critical of existing society. There was a moment in our lives (or a month, or a year) when certain facts appeared before us, startled us, and then caused us to question beliefs that were strongly fixed in our consciousness-embedded there by years of family prejudices, orthodox schooling, imbibing of newspapers, radio, and television. This would seem to lead to a simple conclusion: that we all have an enormous responsibility to bring to the attention of others information they do not have, which has the potential of causing them to rethink long-held ideas.” —Howard Zinn (via joemccarthyblues)
Jan 29, 2012984 notes
Jan 29, 20126,328 notes
Jan 29, 2012724 notes
“A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a student you should always get a good night’s sleep unless you have come to the good part of your book, and then you should stay up all night and let your schoolwork fall by the wayside.” —Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy (via prettybooks)
Jan 29, 20128,097 notes
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.” —Rumi (via nakedineurope)
Jan 29, 20128,236 notes
“A white college student from a private college goes into a poor neighborhood and volunteers four hours a week and that’s considered exemplary. [Whereas] a poor kid who lives in that community and takes care of all the kids in that neighborhood four hours every day is not seen as a volunteer.” —

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.

Jan 29, 20123,656 notes
Jan 29, 201269,062 notes
Jan 29, 201216,742 notes
Jan 29, 20121,381 notes
“Support, salvation, transformation, life: this is what women give to one another when they are true friends, soul friends, what the Irish call anam cara. It’s what the Wrinklies did for one another, what the French resistance fighters in Auschwitz did for one another, what women do for one another in real relationships with real consequences in real time, every day, what my friends do for me. We help one another other live and sometimes, we watch – and help – one another die. It happens in movies, sure, but it also happens every day, in real life – now, tomorrow, yesterday. It is transformative and transcendent. It is real. It is love.” —Transformation And Transcendence: The Power Of Female Friendship - The Rumpus.net
Jan 29, 2012
Next page →
2012 2013
  • January 133
  • February 56
  • March 117
  • April 42
  • May 15
  • June 53
  • July
  • August
  • September
  • October
  • November
  • December
2011 2012 2013
  • January 126
  • February 68
  • March 195
  • April 147
  • May 70
  • June 66
  • July 66
  • August 53
  • September 56
  • October 72
  • November 86
  • December 141
2011 2012
  • January
  • February 111
  • March 161
  • April 74
  • May 58
  • June 106
  • July 94
  • August 190
  • September 34
  • October 37
  • November 58
  • December 80