February 2012
20 posts
I must read this book next.
“Do not whine… Do not complain. Work harder. Spend more time alone.”
—Joan Didion, Blue Nights
“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid hell-raiser. I was never idle long enough to do much thinking, but I felt somehow that some of us were making real progress, that we had taken an honest road, and that the best of us would inevitably make it over the top. At the same time, I shared a dark suspicion that the life we were leading was a lost cause, ...
“I’m struck by how, except when you’re young, you really need to prioritize in...”
– “What I Talk About When I Talk About Running” -Haruki Murakami (via neeenya)
I remember standing in the japanese book store on 41st and 6th for almost an hour, unable to put this book down. its always such a treat to be able to tap into minds of the writers of extraordinary stories. I love coming...
ornithes:
“Both destiny’s kisses and its dope-slaps illustrate an individual person’s basic personal powerlessness over the really meaningful events in his life: i.e. almost nothing important that ever happens to you happens because you engineer it. Destiny has no beeper; destiny always leans trenchcoated out of an alley with some sort of Psst that you usually can’t even hear because you’re in...
“When another person makes you suffer, it is because he suffers deeply within...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via shrinkwrecks)
Giving Is sharing happiness.
givingis:
Giving Is… sharing happiness.
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confusion at its best.
“Love is by definition an unmerited gift; being loved without meriting it is the...”
– Milan Kundera, Slowness (via dianlovesit)
“Judge your success by what you had to give up in order to get it.”
– Dalai Lama XIV (via ihatejackets)
will need a lot of music to get me through this week.
January 2012
24 posts
Ruth 1:16-17
But Ruth replied, “Don’t urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go, I will go and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the Lord deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me.”
“With literature, you learn how people behave, and you learn empathy”
-This Burns My Heart
“Confidence, Conviction, & Compassion”
suparabbit:
“if you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel - as far and as widely as possible. sleep on floors if you have to. find out how other people live and eat and cook. learn from them - wherever you go.”
—
anthony bourdain
a little reminder to those of you
dianlovesit:
try to look outside your relationship every once in awhile. you never know what you might find.
“Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to...”
– (via funktionality)
yummymandoo:
“That this is a beautiful dream, and I do want your happiness. But the absence of fighting or hatred or desire also means the opposites do not exist either. No joy, no communion, no love. Only where there is disillusionment and depression and sorrow does happiness arise; without the despair of loss, there is no hope.”
—
Haruki Murakami - Hard-Boiled Wonderland & The End of The...
December 2011
30 posts
“I woke up as the sun was reddening; and that was the one distinct time in my...”
– Jack Kerouac, On the Road (via infinitives)
