May 2012
“If nothing else, one day you can look someone straight in the eyes and say, “But I lived through it. And it made me who I am today.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Long Hard Road (via anditslove)
“You were once wild here. Don’t let them tame you.”
—Isadora Duncan (via wethinkwedream)
“Courage is confused with picking up arms and cowardice is confused with laying them down.”
—Mitch Albom (via quote-book)
“‘I love you’ means that I accept you for the person that you are, and that I do not wish to change you into someone else. It means that I will love you and stand by you even through the worst of times. It means loving you even when you’re in a bad mood, or too tired to do the things I want to do. It means loving you when you’re down, not just when you’re fun to be with. ‘I love you’ means that I know your deepest secrets and do not judge you for them, asking in return that you do not judge me for mine. It means that I care enough to fight for what we have and that I love you enough not to let go. It means thinking of you, dreaming of you, wanting and needing you constantly, and hoping you feel the same about me.”
— Johnathon Safran Foer (via loveyourchaos)
“Cautiously, I allowed
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
rooms
just staring at the
knobs of some
dresser
or listening to the
rain in the
dark.
The less I needed
the better I
felt.” —Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You” (via salveo)
myself to feel good
at times.
I found moments of
peace in cheap
rooms
just staring at the
knobs of some
dresser
or listening to the
rain in the
dark.
The less I needed
the better I
felt.” —Charles Bukowski, “Let It Enfold You” (via salveo)
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in this world is limited, and that eventually all of us will end up underneath some sheet, never to wake up. And yet it is always a surprise when it happens to someone we know. It is like walking up the stairs to your bedroom in the dark, and thinking there is one more stair than there is. Your foot falls down, through the air, and there is a sickly moment of dark surprise as you try and readjust the way you thought of things.”
—Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via mymindgoesblank)
“I guess I never caught that bug where you’re only supposed to care about your own country or your own local area. To me, 49 decapitated Mexicans is just as bad as 49 decapitated Americans and I know if there were 49 decapitated Americans in the street anywhere in the country, it would be like 9/11 all over again. It would be the largest news story for years - if it just happened once - but it happens time and time again in Mexico… and I guess as long as Americans aren’t getting decapitated, apparently the rest of the country, and especially our media, couldn’t give a damn and that’s part of what’s sick and wrong with this country’s media. And so, we march on as if nothing is wrong, as if everything is hunky dory, as if the war on drugs makes sense and hasn’t created these grotesque gangs that grow larger and more grotesque by the day - and it’s not because of the drugs. It’s because the drugs are illegal.”
—Cenk Uygur commenting on the 49 bodies that were recently found decapitated in Mexico and on the continued War on Drugs, which has claimed over 62,000 lives since just 2006 (via mohandasgandhi)
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to replenish it’s source. It dies of blindness and errors and betrayals. It dies of illness and wounds; it dies of weariness, of witherings, of tarnishings.”
—Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
“I just need to know
no matter how hard you push,
I will not give up.” —
no matter how hard you push,
I will not give up.” —
Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson
(via tylerknott)
“When men and women meet in the middle where sex is deep enough to fill a woman’s emotional needs and spiritual desires, as well as her physical yearnings; the quality of orgasm magnifies immensely and can fill them both up with extraordinary bliss!”
—Mare Simone’s Tantra Heaven (via theladycheeky)
