January 2012
8 posts
A good night’s sleep helps you perform well in school, and so if you’re a...
– Lemony Snicket, The Austere Academy (via prettybooks)
From the garden rose the sound of bees
that lurched and wobbled through the...
– Michael Lavers, Coda (via grammatolatry)
December 2011
15 posts
There aren’t shortcuts. Merely direct paths. Most people don’t take them,...
– Seth Godin (via ingwaybee)
Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a...
– Edith Sitwell
Reminiscing in the drizzle of Portland, I notice
the ring that’s landed on your...
– Jeffrey McDaniel, “The Benjamin Franklin of Monogamy” (via hatsfordimes)
Don’t aim at success - the more you aim at it and make it a target, the more you...
– Viktor Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning (via quote-book)
Have I ever told you about the first time I saw you? Everything was young back...
–
Greg Forrester, “Star-cross’d”
(via quote-book)
I love that feeling. You know, the one you get when you take a deep breath and...
– The X (via ishainparis)
The only way to deal with an unfree world is to become so absolutely free that...
– Albert Camus (via girlwithoutwings)
I don’t want a future, I want a present. To me this appears of greater value....
– Robert Walser, The Tanners (via suzywire)
No citizen has a right to be an amateur in the matter of physical training…what...
– Socrates (via nathanielstuart)
I remember one morning getting up at dawn, there was such a sense of...
– Clarissa Vaughan - The Hours (via annapalindroma)
November 2011
1 post
October 2011
3 posts
I don’t believe that old cliché that good things come to those who wait. I think...
– Ashton Kutcher (via thoughtsdetained)
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September 2011
4 posts
4 tags
August 2011
8 posts
My view is that the right book has to reach you at the right time, and no person...
– Elif Baufman in Tom Perrotta, Francine Prose, and others on “great books” that aren’t great. - By Juliet Lapidos - Slate Magazine (via housingworksbookstore)
Why can’t rappers just say nice things? Like “I wanna take your clothes off and...
– Ellen Degeneres (via pearleyes)
There is no need of any competition with anybody. You are yourself, and as you...
– Osho (via illuminatedbeing)
July 2011
17 posts
Partly Cloudy
tylerknott:
I love when I sit alone in a room and the light explodes as it often does when the sun stops its hiding behind the cloud. Perhaps it’s not the dark that grows quieter but some lightness in me growing louder? -Tyler Knott Gregson-
Physics says: go to sleep. Of course
you’re tired. Every atom in you
has been...
– Albert Goldbarth, The Sciences Sing a Lullaby (via grammatolatry)