April 2013
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“For a moment everything was clear, and when that happens you see that the world...”
– Stephen King “11/22/63.”
February 2013
I once dropped a pen
standthoughtingunder:
And thought it was the foreshadowing of my death,
The reality is, being born was the foreshadowing of my death.
Let the pens drop, people die. I’m alive.
“The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral
begetting...”
– Martln Luther King, Jr.
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Named my horse Sir Hoofington.
No regrets.
“I loved you head over handles
like my first bicycle accident—
before the...”
– Sierra DeMulder, from “Cycle of Abuse” (via fleurishes)
January 2013
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“Enneahectaenneacontakaienneagon.”
– The name for a 999-sided polygon, according to the R.S. Schaeffer Math Department at Kutztown University.
“Sacrifice,” the Captain said. “You made one. I made one. We all make them. But...”
– The Five People You Meet in Heaven
“My heart wants roots
My mind wants wings.
I cannot bear
Their bickerings.”
– E.Y. Harburg (via larmoyante)
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Beauty
I have a friend who is an artist, and has sometimes taken a view which I don’t agree with very well. He’ll hold up a flower and say “Look how beautiful it is” and I’ll agree. And he says, “you see as an artist I can see how beautiful this is, but you as a scientist take this all apart and it becomes a dull thing.” And I think that he’s kind of...
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The Real You
When you’re ready to wake up, you’re going to wake up, and if you’re not ready you’re going to stay pretending that you’re just a ‘poor little me.’ And since you’re all here and engaged in this sort of inquiry and listening to this sort of lecture, I assume you’re all in the process of waking up. Or else you’re teasing yourselves with some kind of flirtation with waking up which you’re not serious...
“Let no man pull you so low as to hate him.”
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via larmoyante)
“I know you think this world is too dark to even dream in color,
but I’ve seen...”
– Andrea Gibson, “The Moon is a Kite” (via larmoyante)
“there are twenty four ribs
that supposedly protect
your heart from damage,...”
– implexa, “Infection” (via fleurishes)
I downloaded 21 books to my ipad and i am as happy as can be.
in other news, my cousin and I are drawing up plans to drive 60 hours to Alaska to get more daytime in the summer so we can play with husky puppies and ride to college on dogsleds.
“The best time to plant a tree was 20 years ago. The second best time is now.”
kidswithhats:
if anne hath a will, anne hathaway
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via larmoyante)
BraceLand: Silicon Valley's Problem →
kalooze:
Fascinating read.
Kinda hard to read, but worth it.
December 2012
“A person should want to live, if only out of curiosity.”
– Yiddish Proverb (via larmoyante)
“Human life is but a series of footnotes to a vast obscure unfinished...”
– Vladimir Nabokov, Lolita (via larmoyante)
“Starting a new book is a risk, just like falling in love. You have to commit to...”
– Gaby Dunn, Falling In Love Is Like Reading A New Book (via larmoyante)
“To live in this world
you must be able
to do three things
to love what is...”
– Mary Oliver, “In Blackwater Woods” (via larmoyante)
