October 2011
Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.
– Haruki Murakami, “The Kidney-Shaped Stone”
Most times, it’s just a lot easier not to let the world know what’s wrong.
– Chuck Palahniuk
The answer is never the answer. What’s really interesting is the mystery. If you...
– Ken Kesey (via decrepito)
Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his...
– Fyodor Dostoyevsky (via asleepingforest)
The thought of suicide is a great consolation: by means of it gets one through...
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via thewildernessunderground)
But a mermaid has no tears, and therefore she suffers so much more.
– The Little Mermaid, Hans Christian Andersen (via somberlily)
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I was away, I don’t know where, lying on the floor, pretending I was dead.
– Richard Siken
There is no such thing as a long piece of work, except one that you dare not...
– Charles Baudelaire (SPOT ON)
the pocketmouse: “Physics says: Go to sleep. Of... →
And I struggle…
thepocketmouse:
“Physics says: Go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep.
Geology says: It will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving…
You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding...
– Ayn Rand
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Close your eyes, clear your heart, let it go...:... →
creatingaquietmind:
What I hate most is my own lack of achievement. I know what my abilities are and I know when I am living up to them. I haven’t been for a while now and it’s so frustrating. I think this is really the only regret that I find myself with over and over again. I struggle with a lack of motivation and…
Happy Birthday.
Thanks dearie!! I spent the last 35 mins of my special day - sleeping. I’ve been catching some sleep, an hour here, another there. I need to clear my work and get consecutive normal hours instead…. (Yes, that’s my birthday wish!)
blubloos:
It’s 35 minutes to twelve, 35 minutes before your special day ends.
Happy birthday my dear!
There’s gonna be another megagazillion 35...
At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.
– Albert Camus (via ungathering)
I have the sweetest roomie EVER!
Happy birthday to me too. Now back to work.
And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...
– Sylvia Plath (via atavus)
you gave me a vase of dead wildflowers once. you told me this way, i didn’t have...
– Ashley Moi (via beryl-azure)
Contemplation often makes life miserable. We should act more, think less, and...
– Nicolas de Chamfort (via kelikei)
Concentration is one of the happiest things in my life,” he said. “If you cannot...
– Haruki Murakami (via miserychick) “If you cannot concentrate, you are not so happy.” Taking advice from my idol.
What happens in a certain place can stain your feelings for that location, just...
– A Series of Unfortunate Events Book the Second: The Reptile Room by Lemony Snicket (via shoottoquill)
Nothing was ever in tune. People just blindly grabbed at whatever there was:...
– Charles Bukowski (via aeloquence)
One always dies too soon - or too late. And yet ones’ whole life is complete at...
– Jean-Paul Sartre, No Exit (via honeyforthehomeless)
Like an ephemeral phantom, I roam the shadowed streets. Streets that draw...