February 2012
“Let yourself go. Pull out from the depths those thoughts that you do not...”
– E.M. Forster (via misswallflower)
“At first people refuse to believe that a strange new thing can be done, then...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett, The Secret Garden (via bookmania)
First Day at University
So far it’s been wonderful - Uni fits perfectly into the images of it I’d imagined: striding around campus with a purposeful urgency set to my step, lectures in which I’d sit, consciously detached from what was actually going on (you know that feeling-of observing yourself observing your surroundings?) yet occasionally, briefly, roused from this pretentious, dreamy stupor by...
The good, the bad and the ugly story!: “Life will... →
mykindafairytalee:
“Life will break you. Nobody can protect you from that, and living alone won’t either, for solitude will also break you with its yearning. You have to love. You have to feel. It is the reason you are here on earth. You are here to risk your heart. You are here to be swallowed up. And when it happens that you are broken, or betrayed, or left, or hurt, or death brushes near, let...
“Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings — always darker, emptier, simpler.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via fleshscars)
“To be a writer you should read, write and talk to people, hear their knowledge,...”
– Jean Craighead George (via thelifeguardlibrarian)
“Is there anything in the entire universe that never changes and lasts forever?...”
– Buddhism (via piiss)
I love libraries. Something about them just makes...
HarvestHeart: Introverts in an extrovert's world... →
harvestheart:
Janie Magruder
The Arizona Republic Nov. 8, 2005 12:00 AM A contestant on a popular reality-TV series looks into the camera and disdainfully describes a tribe mate, whom she’d vote off tomorrow in a heart beat: “He’s introverted, anti-social - but there are medications that can counteract that, right?” Her attitude that there’s something wrong with introverted people is widely...
Chinese proverb
soulhunting:
With money you can buy a house, but not a home. With money you can buy a clock, but not time. With money you can buy a bed, but not sleep. With money you can buy a book, but not knowledge. With money you can buy a doctor, but not good health. With money you can buy a position, but not respect. With money you can buy blood, but not life. With money you can buy sex, but not love.
“‘People always think that happiness is a faraway thing,’ thought Francie,...”
– Betty Smith (via misswallflower)
That awkward moment when you guess part of the...
