October 2011
6 posts
To me, there is no greater act of courage than being the one who kisses first.
– Janeane Garofalo (via loveyourchaos)
Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled...
– Pearl S. Buck (via libraryland)
I have always lived violently, drunk hugely, eaten too much or not at all, slept...
– Steinbeck (via thesemightysecrets)
Do stuff. Be clenched, curious. Not waiting for inspiration’s shove or society’s...
– Susan Sontag (via the-dominoeffect)
August 2011
1 post
2 tags
Empathy is like a universal solvent. Any problem immersed in empathy becomes...
– Simon Baron-Cohen (via austinkleon)
May 2011
2 posts
I was never really insane except upon occasions when my heart was touched.
– Edgar Allan Poe (via lipsticksmiles)
All you need is ignorance and confidence and the success is sure.
– Mark Twain
(via missfolly)
April 2011
3 posts
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
– Thomas Edison (via nevver)
dusik-laine:
we’ll be useless once we’re famous, we ought to keep that in mind.
March 2011
1 post
When you have exhausted all possibilities, remember this – you haven’t.
– Thomas Edison (via nevver)
February 2011
6 posts
there’s no geographical solution to an emotional problem,” ©Mad...
– In Which It’s Awful Not To Be Able To Do What You Want To Do - Home - This Recording
Sometimes we let our love go unexpressed, especially towards those we love the...
– Voltaire (via theflyinggiraffe)
New York was good for that, providing transportation and anonymity...
– Emma Straub, “Rosemary” (via fwriction)
And So Desire Carries Me Along,” a quote from Petrarch’s 1342 work Canzoniere.
– Flavorwire » 25 Presents for Your Valentine That Don’t Suck
Persistence is more important than talent. Never ever give up. And never stop...
– Stan Lee (via unicornology)
January 2011
33 posts
Work as hard as you can. If you aren’t working as hard as you can, someone else...
– Chris Gethard. (via farlizzle) (via lunchbreak) (via hugel) (via makingofmovies) (via justin) (via rebeccalando) (via mattyho)
You can never get enough of what you don’t need, because what you don’t need can...
– Mary Ellen Edmunds
(via typegirl)
Every morning, take royal jelly and omega-3 oil, eat oysters, and have a good...
– Philippe Starck’s formula for creativity (via superamit)
That’s the best revenge of all: happiness. Nothing drives people crazier than...
– Chuck Palahniuk (via soul-surfer)
My two favorite things in life are libraries and bicycles. They both move people...
– Pete Golkin (via sleuthly)
Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...
– Franz Kafka (via nyxa)
You have two options: settle down and die unsatisfied or reject long-term...
– A Survival Guide for the 26-35 Age Range in 2011 « Thought Catalog (via buyhercandy)
No one really knows why they are alive until they know what they’d die for.
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via loveyourchaos)
The truth is, everyone is going to hurt you. You just got to find the ones worth...
– Bob Marley (via nevver)
When I look at the lives of the poets, I understand what’s wrong with me. They...
– Nicholson Baker, The Anthologist (via newspaperblackout)
Forced to write within a certain framework, the imagination is taxed to its...
– Joseph Heller paraphrasing T.S. Eliot (via newspaperblackout)
She has the sweetest voice I know. She sounds as though she’d spent most of her...
– salinger, “personal notes on an infantryman” (via seymourglass)
Make voyages. Attempt them. There’s nothing else.
– Tennessee Williams (via thesemightysecrets)
My consuming interest in men and their lives is often misconstrued as a desire...
– Sylvia Plath (via)
Of all forms of inequality, injustice in healthcare is the most shocking and...
– Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (via stuffsickpeoplehavetoputupwith)
Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.
– Jim Morrison (via somethingintellectual)
I was half in love with her by the time we sat down. That’s the thing about...
– J.D. Salinger, Catcher In The Rye (via cricketcrickettumbleweed) (via deconstruct, nedhepburn)
Nothing is original. Steal from anywhere that resonates with inspiration or...
– Jim Jarmusch (via newspaperblackout)
"I think desire is perhaps the most exciting thing...
(via deconstruct)
[As a child], I collected stamps, I collected coins, I collected crystals, I...
– Pamela Love (via theflyinggiraffe)
It always smelled like it was raining outside, even if it wasn’t, and you were...
– J.D. Salinger (via loveyourchaos)