julia.: Archive

“

May God bless you with discomfort
at easy answers, half truths, and superficial relationships,
so that you may live deep within your heart.

May God bless you with anger
at injustice, oppression, and exploitation of people,
so that you may work for justice, freedom and peace.

May God bless you with tears to shed
for those who suffer from pain, rejection, starvation, and war,
so that you may reach out your hand to comfort them and to turn their pain in to joy.

And may God bless you with enough foolishness
to believe that you can make a difference in this world,
so that you can do what others claim cannot be done.

” —Franciscan Benediction (via discosherpa)

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“If you want to be my lover, you’ve got to get with my friends.” —Sylvia Plath (via incorrectsylviaplathquotes)

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nezua:

Your new super power is remaining aware of what is in your control, and what is not; to firmly grasp the former, to let the rest slip into the wind.

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“Am I in love? —yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn’t wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover’s fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.” —

Roland Barthes, A Lover’s Discourse: Fragments

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“This is what you shall do: love the earth and sun, and animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence towards the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown, or to any man or number of men; go freely with the powerful uneducated persons, and with the young, and mothers, of families: read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life: re-examine all you have been told at school or church, or in any books, and dismiss whatever insults your soul.” —Walt Whitman (via justbesplendid)

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“The one realization I have come to after four years is that I can still make all the mistakes I want and it doesn’t matter.” —

From the Archives: Colvin ‘78 reflects on Yale career | Cross Campus | Yale Daily News

I wish I believed this.

Feb 24, 2012

“We have the power to heal what needs to be healed. We get to give ourselves that. We have the capacity to stand before the scorching flames and decide what to swallow and what to cast out.” —DEAR SUGAR, The Rumpus Advice Column #97: You Have Arrived At The Fire - The Rumpus.net

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“What is poetry? Poetry is clumps of words that make people feel something.” —McSweeney’s Internet Tendency: Poetry FAQ.

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“Yes: I am alone on earth: I have always been alone…Do not think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone.” —Joan in George Bernard Shaw’s Saint Joan (via promptsrus)

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“We have been raised to fear the yes within ourselves, our deepest cravings.” —

Audre Lorde (via nezua)

oh hey sex week keynote!

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“I stressed the love situation and I still think I was right. Because it’s very disturbing to speak about love. People think that either you are a little bit ethereal or that you are not aware that there are struggles and hate and violence in the world and so on. Or that you are a little bit religious or something like that. Love has become the modern obscenity, it’s more obscene than sex, you can talk about sex and violence and that’s OK; everybody knows that exists, but love is too strange.” —

Julia Kristeva | ‘Julia Kristeva in Conversation with Rosalind Coward’ in The Portable Kristeva (via nezua)

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February 2012

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