February 2012
38 posts
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Happiness is a Warm Gun: Societal Pressures →
fayelikestodream:
Society is such a bitch sometimes.
For over a year, one of the main things people keep asking me is “why are you single?”
Friends, family, office mates, new acquaintances, classmates.
EVERYONE.
When I got back from Europe, the first thing people asked was if I met someone there. And when I…
Preach.
“Once, as I was burying one of my dead selves, the grave-digger came by and said...”
– Kahlil Gibran (via nirvikalpa)
“Lying down is like standing up’s cool brother.”
– Mike Pomranz (via theories-of)
Sharing Poetry: Albert Goldbarth, "The Sciences... →
sharingpoetry:
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course you’re tired. Every atom in you has been dancing the shimmy in silver shoes nonstop from mitosis to now. Quit tapping your feet. They’ll dance inside themselves without you. Go to sleep. Geology says: it will be all right. Slow inch by inch America is giving itself to the ocean. Go to sleep. Let darkness lap at your sides. Give darkness an...
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Destroyed
I had to be destroyed to be rebuilt.
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“Why is it we want so badly to memorialize ourselves? Even while we’re still...”
– Margaret Atwood
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Just A Thought
February 2, 2009
It amazes me how one can change in a year
In a month
In a week
Or even in a day
I keep asking myself, am I still the girl in the picture a year ago? Why does it feel like it’s been years? There’s just so much that happened. Who would’ve thought that the person you were with in that picture years ago, would never be part of your life anymore? Or that one candid innocent shot...
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The Uses of Sorrow
wannabe70skid:
(In my sleep I dreamed this poem)
Someone I loved once gave me
a box full of darkness.
It took me years to understand
that this, too, was a gift.
-Mary Oliver
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“You have to take opportunities by the balls. Try it out and if it’s not for you,...”
– Hudson Go, Imma Be Career Symposium (via thehappytatal)
“What really knocks me out is a book that, when you’re all done reading it, you...”
– Holden Caulfied; The Catcher in The Rye (via iamastarfish)
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“In dreams you don’t need to make any distinctions between things. Not at all....”
– Haruki Murakami (via immaescapereality)
January 2012
49 posts
