February 2012
10 posts
“Don’t attach yourself to anyone who shows you the least bit of attention because...”
– Ingrid (White Oleander)
“I chose to stay present,
to unlearn how to unlove,
to love,
and to practice...”
– (via loverofstories)
“I had a friend, a lover. Or did I dream it? So many dreams are crowding upon me...”
– (via awritersruminations)
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do...”
– Neil Gaiman (via julie911)
20.2.12. 4.45pm. you held me tight, whispering familiar words, as i come undone. thank you.
i miss having your arms wrapped around me
January 2012
15 posts
“A photograph is usually looked at - seldom looked into.”
– Ansel Adams (via kari-shma)
“The worst lies are the lies we tell ourselves.”
– Richard Bach (via kari-shma)
“It’s dark.
You exhale a fist of memory.
I love you like weathering wood
in a...”
– (via proustitute)
“The cold rises
through the sleeve
of my pillowing arm —
I think that tonight...”
– Izumi Shikibu (974 - 1034) … one thousand year old loneliness (via youreyesblazeout)
Nurse Reveals Top 5 Regrets of the Dying
crookedindifference:
kellyoxford:
From Arise India Forum:
“For many years I worked in palliative care. My patients were those who had gone home to die. Some incredibly special times were shared. I was with them for the last three to twelve weeks of their lives People grow a lot when they are faced with their own mortality. I learnt never to underestimate someone’s capacity for growth....
December 2011
26 posts
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
Watchcrookedindifference:
Seeing Equinoxes and Solstices from Space
“As if you could kill time without injuring eternity.”
– Henry David Thoreau (via libraryland)
“You forget what you want to remember and you remember what you want to forget.”
– Cormac McCarthy, The Road (via coffeeblossoms)
Did you know that the people who are usually the strongest are usually also the most sensitive? Did you know that the people who exhibit the most kindness are usually the first to be mistreated? Did you know that the one who takes care of others all the time is usually the one who needs care the most? Do you know that the three hardest things to say are: I love you, I’m sorry, and Help me?...
“And the dangerous thing about excuses is that if we recite them enough times, we...”
– The Secret Letters of The Monk Who Sold His Ferrari by Robin Sharma (via kari-shma)
“Everyone thinks of changing the world, but no one thinks of changing himself.”
– Leo Tolstoy (via kari-shma)
“How easily our loved ones
leave us, speeding into sunsets,
maiming us with...”
– (via ahuntersheart)
“It is not your memories which haunt you.
It is not what you have written down....”
– (via awritersruminations)
iamblessed:
This is the thing: When you hit 28 or 30, everything begins to divide. You can see very clearly two kinds of people. On one side, people who have used their 20s to learn and grow, to find … themselves and their dreams, people who know what works and what doesn’t, who have pushed through to become real live adults. Then there’s the other kind, who are hanging onto college, or...
“So that’s how we live our lives. No matter how deep and fatal the loss, no...”
– Haruki Murakami (via adessive)
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via beautyisanillusion)
maddylovesmuffins:
“To let go of someone doesn’t mean you have to stop loving, it only means that...”
– (via iamblessed)