May 2012
20 posts
“I once had a thousand desires,
But in my one desire to know you
all else...”
– Rumi (via anditslove)
“I want to fulfill myself in one of the rarest of destinies. I have only a dim...”
– Jean Genet, The Thief’s Journal (via jobefish)
“[The] average daydream is about fourteen seconds long and [we] have about two...”
– The Storytelling Animal – the science of how we came to live and breathe stories. (via explore-blog)
April 2012
11 posts
The Remembering and The Becoming: Sixteen Things... →
amandaonwriting:
On life’s constant little limitations
Calvin: You know, Hobbes, some days even my lucky rocket ship underpants don’t help.
On expectations
Calvin: Everybody seeks happiness! Not me, though! That’s the difference between me and the rest of the world. Happiness isn’t…
March 2012
9 posts
“The books or the music in which we thought the beauty was located will betray us...”
– C.S.Lewis, “The Weight of Glory,” in The Weight of Glory and Other Addresses (New York: Macmillan, 1965)
February 2012
19 posts
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via selfinspiration)
true!
“He who delights in solitude is either a wild beast or a god.”
– Francis Bacon (via absurdlakefront)
“And wasn’t it terrible, how much he looked forward to those moments, so much so...”
– Jhumpa Laheri (via selfinspiration)
