not all who wander are lost....

"Everything I’ve ever let go of, has claw marks on it."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:38:49 -0400

““Everything I’ve ever let go of, has claw marks on it.””

- David Foster Wallace (via justsaysomethingperfect)

"I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:38:18 -0400

“I tell my students, ‘When you get these jobs that you have been so brilliantly trained for, just remember that your real job is that if you are free, you need to free somebody else. If you have some power, then your job is to empower somebody else. This is not just a grab-bag candy game.”

- Toni Morrison (via foucault-cult)

"The plan was to play hard to get, that’s right. I wasn’t just gonna go given’ myself away, I’m no..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:37:02 -0400

“The plan was to play hard to get, that’s right. I wasn’t just gonna go given’ myself away, I’m no easy catch. Can you really see me in fishnets? No. I always find myself slippin’ out the holes, swimmin’ back out to sea. I’d never been anybody’s sushi roll.
But she, has lips like wasabi. My eyes water every time we kiss.”

- Andrea Gibson-Wasabi (via fuckyeahmeganlove)

"You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:32:06 -0400

“You have a right to experiment with your life. You will make mistakes. And they are right too. No, I think there was too rigid a pattern. You came out of an education and are supposed to know your vocation. Your vocation is fixed, and maybe ten years later you find you are not a teacher anymore or you’re not a painter anymore. It may happen. It has happened. I mean Gauguin decided at a certain point he wasn’t a banker anymore; he was a painter. And so he walked away from banking. I think we have a right to change course. But society is the one that keeps demanding that we fit in and not disturb things. They would like you to fit in right away so that things work now.”

- Anaïs Nin (via aninsufferableknowitall)

hateship loveship: from "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written" by Margaret Atwood

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:30:43 -0400

hateship loveship: from "Notes Towards a Poem That Can Never Be Written" by Margaret Atwood:

hateshiploveship:

In this country you can say what you like
because no one will listen to you anyway,
it’s safe enough, in this country you can try to write
the poem that can never be written,
the poem that invents
nothing and excuses nothing,
because you invent and excuse yourself each day.

Elsewhere, this poem…

"The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:30:21 -0400

“The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely.”

- Carl Jung (via hateshiploveship)

"I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:28:34 -0400

“I am afraid of getting older … I am afraid of getting married. Spare me from cooking three meals a day—spare me from the relentless cage of routine and rote. I want to be free…. I want, I want to think, to be omniscient…. I think I would like to call myself ‘The girl who wanted to be God.’”

- Sylvia Plath
written in 1949 at age 17 (via hateshiploveship)

"It is one of my lifelong weaknesses that I never could endure the embrace or kiss of my own sex. (An..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 02:20:18 -0400

“It is one of my lifelong weaknesses that I never could endure the embrace or kiss of my own sex. (An unmanly weakness, by the way; Aeneas, Beowulf, Roland, Lancelot, Johnson and Nelson knew nothing of it).”

- C. S. Lewis, Surprised by Joy: The Shape of My Early Life (via dduane)

"She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier..."

Thu, 09 Aug 2012 01:52:42 -0400

“She thought she was independent and strong, but she got one small taste of love and she was hungrier than anyone.”

- Ann Brashares, Girls In Pants: The Third Summer Of The Sisterhood (via creatingaquietmind)

creatingaquietmind: lifeofawhiskeydrinker: My wife and I were at a bar tonight eating dinner and I...

Sun, 24 Jun 2012 09:08:25 -0400

creatingaquietmind:

lifeofawhiskeydrinker:

My wife and I were at a bar tonight eating dinner and I overhear the barman:

“I don’t even like sports, but every morning I watch the news and read the sports section. If you can’t have a conversation with every type of person about anything you have no place being here.”

I need to start doing this.

"Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:34:43 -0400

“Open your mouth only if what you are going to say is more beautiful than silence.”

- Arabic Proverb (via pukepretty)

"Imagine you’re at a party. A guy offers you a drink. You say no. He says “Come on, one drink!” You..."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 21:01:23 -0400

“Imagine you’re at a party. A guy offers you a drink. You say no. He says “Come on, one drink!” You say “no thanks.” Later, he brings you a soda. “I know you said you didn’t want a drink, but I was getting one for myself and you looked thirsty.” For you to refuse at this point makes you the asshole. He’s just being nice, right? Predators use the social contract and our own good hearts and fear of being rude against us. If you drink the drink, you’re teaching him that it just takes a little persistence on his part to overcome your “no.” If you say “Really, I appreciate it, but no thanks” and put the drink down and walk away from it, you’re the one who looks rude in that moment. But the fact is, you didn’t ask for the drink and you don’t want the drink and you don’t have to drink it just to make some guy feel validated.”

- The art of “no,” continued: Saying no when you’ve already said yes. « CaptainAwkward.com (via creatingaquietmind)

"The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:18:07 -0400

““The only real elegance is in the mind; if you’ve got that, the rest really comes from it.””

- Diana Vreeland (via insoftlight)

"There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 17:17:41 -0400

““There is an eloquence in true enthusiasm.””

- Edgar Allan Poe (via insoftlight)

"Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:47:33 -0400

““Life becomes easier when you learn to accept an apology you never got.””

- Robert Brault (via creatingaquietmind)

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"Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but..."

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:44:05 -0400

“Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and business meetings, but after a while wish they were home in their pajamas. They prefer to devote their social energies to close friends, colleagues, and family. They listen more than they talk, think before they speak, and often feel as if they express themselves better in writing than in conversation. They tend to dislike conflict. Many have a horror of small talk, but enjoy deep discussions.”

- Susan Cain, Quiet (via framesjanco)

that-kid-billy-loves-you: ‘darling’ - an original by...

Sat, 23 Jun 2012 15:38:29 -0400

that-kid-billy-loves-you:

‘darling’ - an original by that-kid-billy-loves-you. I do not own the photo

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