“A lot of people never use their initiative because no-one told them to.” Banksy.
“Seek freedom and become captive of your desires. Seek discipline and find your liberty.” Frank Herbert.
“One must not think slightingly of the paradoxical…for the paradox is the source of the thinker’s passion, and the thinker without a paradox is like a lover without feeling: a paltry mediocrity.” Soren Kierkegaard.
“Good judgement is the result of experience and experience the result of bad judgement.” Mark Twain. (this rules! think about it!)
“Whatever you do will be insignificant, but it is very important that you do it.” Mahatma Gandhi.
“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.” George Bernard Shaw.
“Getting divorced just because you don’t love a man is almost as silly as getting married just because you do. ” Zsa Zsa Gabor.
“Failing to plan, is like planning to fail.” Stephen McCranie.
“We live in an age when unnecessary things are our only necessities.” Oscar Wilde.
“It’s weird not to be weird.” John Lennon.
“Men have two greatest fears: the first fear is the fear of being needed, and the second fear is the fear of not being needed.” C. JoyBell C.
“And the trouble is, if you don’t risk anything, you risk even more.” Erica Jong.
“The funny thing about the heart is a soft heart is a strong heart, and a hard heart is a weak heart.” Criss Jami.
“Procrastinate now, don’t put it off.” Ellen DeGeneres.
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend. Jacques Derrida.
“He who fears he shall suffer, already suffers what he fears.” Michel de Montaigne.
“Life is a preparation for the future; and the best preparation for the future is to live as if there were none.” Albert Einstein.
“Fighting for peace, is like f***ing for chastity” Stephen King.
“Let go of certainty. The opposite isn’t uncertainty. It’s openness, curiosity and a willingness to embrace paradox, rather than choose up sides. The ultimate challenge is to accept ourselves exactly as we are, but never stop trying to learn and grow.” Tony Schwartz.
cow in a meadow!
ON FRIENDSHIP
As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty (Jonas Mekas, 2000) // Four Friends, 2019 by Salman Toor (b. 1983) // abandonment (the pair), henri de toulouse-lautrec // A Summer’s Tale (1996) dir. Éric Rohmer // this post
i am a serene and lovely person. yes absolutely everything bothers me & i go through life in a state of constant aggravation and annoyance & have to physically restrain myself from breaking down in tears over how utterly irritated i am sometimes. but i am serene and lovely nonetheless
i truly believe that a lot of what gets labeled as "yearning" on here is actually deep & profound & excruciating loneliness & i really think we would have more productive discussions about it if we could just call a spade a spade
like loneliness is an incredibly serious mood state that has major implications for your physical & mental health & the pain it causes is far more intense than simple "yearning." a deep, agonizing longing for human connection is actually a really really big deal
Caroline Bird
“Aside from myself, there was no sign of me.” ― Nicole Krauss
1.Rumi | 2.Holly Warburton | 3.Maggie Stiefvater | 4.Fyodor Dostoyevsky | 5.Nickie Zimov | 6.Clarice Lispector | 7.Nigel Van Wieck | 8.Georgia O’Keeffe | 9.Andrew Wyeth | 10.Mary Oliver | 11.Ilenia Tesoro | 12.Sylvia Plath | 13.Walt Whitman | 14.Nickie Zimov | 15.Jean-Paul Sartre | 16.Lydia Roberts | 17.Natalie Wee | 18.Lew Thomas | 19.Albert Camus
Written on the Body, Jeanette Winterson