February 2012
“Sanity and happiness are an impossible combination.”
– Mark Twain (via misswallflower)
“I am too intelligent, too demanding, and too resourceful for anyone to be able...”
– Simone de Beauvoir (via lostinthesounds)
“Enlightenment is understanding that there is nowhere to go, nothing to do, and...”
– Neale Donald Walsch (via illuminatedbeing)
“I met a Lady in the Meads
Full beautiful, a fairy’s child
Her hair was long,...”
– John Keats, “La Belle Dame sans Merci” (via atramentum)
“Think of nothings. Think of the wind.”
– Truman Capote (via palpability)
“I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
– John Steinbeck (via coffeeislovely)
“I think of how perhaps the best way to fly would be with hands full of earth, so...”
– Ally Condie (Matched)
“Sometimes I think I have given out my love to too many ideas and places and...”
– April Xiong, “Where I Write #21: On the Edge of Sky and Sea” (via atramentum)
“When we hold each other, in the darkness, it doesn’t make the darkness go away....”
– Neil Gaiman (via harmoniam)
birdwings:
stweedy:
Capital Angst — Spencer...
“And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via -astronauts)
“I would stare at the grains of light suspended in that silent space, struggling...”
– Haruki Murakami (via writingsinthestars)
“If you’re listening, if you’re awake to the poignant beauty of the world, your...”
– Andrew Harvey (via writingsinthestars)
January 2012
“You are sad — be aware. Let sadness become your meditation. You are angry — be...”
– Osho. (via illuminatedbeing)
On the layers and nuances of the Filipino...
pinoytumblr:
One thing I love about my native Filipino language: It does not distinguish by gender.
In the English language, there is always a distinction between “he” or “she” when referring to the third person.
In Filipino, regardless of the gender/orientation, it is always “siya.”
In the English language, there is always a distinction between “son” and “daughter.”
In Filipino, regardless...
“There is a crack in everything. That’s how the light gets in.”
– Leonard Cohen
“The flowers withered
Their color faded away
...”
– Ono no Komachi
atramentum:
But you were young, and you had Plenty of time: Going west,
You slept on the train and did not smile. Under you the plains widened, turned silver.
You slept with your mouth open.
You were nothing, You were snow falling through the ribs Of the dead.
You were all I had.
— L. Levis
vulgivagus:
From a sea, we came.
Day rafts, heart paddles, and rain; they all fall off before we drain.
From a sea, we came.
Unseen where only drowning ships can see (us)
To a sea, we were gone.
From a sea, we came.
“I am not pretty. I am not beautiful. I am as radiant as the sun.”
– Suzanne Collins, The Hunger Games (via atramentum)
“Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of...”
– H. G. Wells (via minsquin)
“Whenever she thought she could not feel more alone, the universe peeled back...”
– Paint it Black by Janet Fitch (via lostinthesounds)
“He drowned in longed-for oblivion.”
– Herman Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund. (via mirroir)
“lost my way in the shadow of the sea. adrift in meaning, light fled from me.”
– Michael Plouviez (via withoutyourkiss)
