March 2012
1 post
February 2012
30 posts
“We are torn between nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and...”
– Carson McCullers (via creatingaquietmind)
“It’s delicious to have people adore you, but it’s exhausting, too. Particularly...”
– Tasha Alexander, A Fatal Waltz (via psychotherapy)
“If you’ve ever had that feeling of loneliness, of being an outsider, it never...”
– Tim Burton (via garp)
“A man who gives a good account of himself is probably lying, since any life when...”
– George Orwell (via nevver)
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...”
– Anaïs Nin (via light-essence)
“Have you learned the lessons only of those who admired you, and were tender with...”
– (via carmenhawk)
“Sometimes, loving your body is not an option. Sometimes, the best we can do is...”
– Lesley Kinzel (via lavender-labia)
“I am astonished, disappointed, pleased with myself. I am distressed, depressed,...”
– C.G. Jung, near the end of his life, in Memories, Dreams. Thanks for submitting this Mark. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“One is prepared in the end to be defeated and broken up by life, which is the...”
– George Orwell (via wooliebear)
“No man, for any considerable period, can wear one face to himself and another to...”
– Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter (via liquidnight)
“She often felt she was nothing but a sponge sopped full of human emotions.”
– Virginia Woolf, To the Lighthouse (via artshouldnotbeperfect)
“you have to be a deviant or die of boredom”
– William S. Burroughs (via littlehappyeskimo)
“Is there no way out of the mind?”
– Sylvia Plath, from “Apprehensions” (via awritersruminations)
“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality (via curiositycounts)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via cozmoxandre)
“Reality continues to ruin my life.”
– Bill Watterson (via misswallflower)
“Do not feel lonely, the entire universe is inside you.”
– Rumi (via sandysays)
“The very purpose of spirituality is self-discipline. Rather than criticizing...”
– His Holiness the XIVth Dalai Lama (via sophstomorrow)
January 2012
40 posts
thoughts-like-blades:
Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable to continue to live.
“Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will...”
– Carl Jung (via devilduck)
me: i'm finally happy
life: lol no just wait
“Care about what other people think and you will always be their prisoner.”
– Lao Tzu (via strikemysoul)
“You cannot really be too concerned with what people think of you. You’re on...”
– Tom Waits (via absea)
“It’s so hard to forget pain, but it’s even harder to remember sweetness. We have...”
– Chuck Palahniuk (via thinkstrawberry)
“My whole life seems like a bad dream. It’s like somebody else’s life. If my life...”
– Six Feet Under (via sandysays)
“Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable...”
– Carl Jung (via nirvikalpa)
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“You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the...”
– Anne Lamott on intuition vs. rationality (via curiositycounts)
“Grant yourself a moment of peace, and you will understand how foolishly you have...”
– Ancient Chinese proverb (via elige)
“Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.”
– Sylvia Plath
well, i call it the cave, but okay
(via rockandrora)
“Life is so damned hard, so damned hard… It just hurts people and hurts people,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Beautiful and Damned (via sandysays)
“Things have dropped from me. I have outlived certain desires; I have lost...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via growing-orbits)
“…in life, a tragedy is not one long scream. It includes everything that led up...”
– Margaret Atwood, The Blind Assassin (via semperaugustus)
“I do not live in a state of anxiety.
It’s just a small town I am passing...”
– Craig Junjulas (via fernsandmoss)
