January 2010
“Deep experience is never peaceful.”
– Henry James
“Peace goes into the making of a poem as flour goes into the making of bread.”
– Pablo Neruda
“You have to strive every minute to get rid of the life that you have planned in...”
– Joseph Campbell
“Draw a crazy picture, Write a nutty poem, Sing a mumble-gumble song, Whistle...”
– Shel Silverstein
tobealonewithyouu:
i am in a complete blank today. but i sit here and stare, and wish i had something else to say.
I think I have this problem far too often. It’s not that I don’t have anything to say, it’s just tough putting it all together sometimes. But it comes and goes, at least it’s not on always thing.
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“Work is love made visible. And if you cannot work with love but only with...”
– Kahlil Gibran
“When the power of love overcomes the love of power , the world will know peace.”
– Jimi Hendrix
“And when thou prayest, thou shalt not be as the hypocrites are: for they love to...”
– Jesus
“All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people...”
– Conan O’Brien
“Life is both nonsensical and significant. And when we do not laugh about one...”
– Carl Jung
“Be careful what you pretend to be because you are what you pretend to be.”
– Kurt Vonnegut
“And when we break, we’ll wait for our miracle
God is a place where some...”
– Two Headed Boy, Pt 2 - Neutral Milk Hotel
“After you’ve written about something once, though, it’s very...”
– Naomi Mitchison
“I have realized that the past and future are real illusions, that they exist in...”
– Alan Watts
“At 30 a man should know himself like the palm of his hand, know the exact number...”
– Albert Camus
First Star I See Tonight,
stumbleintome:
There is always one person you love who becomes that definition.
This is something I had a problem with (and really still do.) But I think that is the kind of love that lasts forever. The relationship my vanish, but the love that’s untainted by cynicism remains. We hold everyone else to that seemingly unattainable idea.
We’re constantly redefining that love you...
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy
“If you hear a voice within you say “you cannot paint,” then by all...”
– Vincent Van Gogh
“However vast the darkness, we must supply our own light”
– Stanley Kubrick
“The beatings that rotation brings
Has us betting down on anything
But as our...”
– Cassino - The Old Year
“What we call obscure condition or vulgar society is that condition and society...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
In Tension
It was always my intention to follow up these quotes with some insight into why I picked them and how I relate to them. I’ll probably reblog and take up this process on the old quotes, but for now I’ll start with the one I just posted.
There seems to be a constant forgetful rhythm about love. We’re never quite sure how we fall into it, we find it hard to describe without...
“Love never dies a natural death. It dies because we don’t know how to...”
– Anais Nin
“Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what...”
– D.H. Lawrence