January 2012
8 posts
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she...”
– Shauna Niequist, Bittersweet (via thresca)
“a rose by any other name would smell as sweet to me
and i am but a hollow frame...”
– She Said Lenny
“The purpose of life is not to be happy. It is to be useful, to be honorable, to...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– Anaïs Nin (via catfka)
December 2011
11 posts
beenthinking
Christmas night always held a weight of melancholy. A sort of sadness in having received what you wanted only to find the allure was in the anticipation all along. Or not having received what you wanted and enduring the particularly lonesome work of being an adult. Getting over it and feigning contentedness because at this point, the world doesn’t care all that much about...
November 2011
12 posts
“All that we call human history—money, poverty, ambition, war, prostitution,...”
– C. S. Lewis (via shesaloverofchrist)
“I like to see people reunited, I like to see people run to each other, I like...”
– ― Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via justbesplendid)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via indica999)
“When you’re alone and not in danger of anyone walking in on you, you really let...”
– Totally Confident And Completely Insecure
if this is where you are
a blessing for the end of a space next week
if this is where you are:
in land that is arid in a world where no life can be found
if you have no hope left to believe,
then let your faith simply be this:
that the failure and grief and fear that carve your landscape, are not the only truth there is
and that a story of love with its promise of life might, in spite of you, somehow be real.
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place. Like you’ll not...”
– Azar Nafisi
“If you have come to help me, you are wasting your time. But if you have come...”
– Lila Watson et al.
October 2011
16 posts
WatchJoel McHale + baby? yes please…
Truth about me
I am balanced brained. Therefore, I am more at war with myself than anybody else. (via thresca)
“The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate...”
– ― Terry Goodkind (via justbesplendid)
“He loves me with devotion and I hated him for it. I hated him because I do not...”
– thelongbrake dot com » Blog Archive
““We’re all seeking that special person who is right for us. But if you’ve been...”
– ― Galway Kinnell (via justbesplendid)
“For a long time I thought my biggest heist was fooling everyone into believing...”
– Miranda July, “Shoplifting to Stay Free” (via meaghano)
“The story of your life is the story of the long and brutal assault on your heart...”
– John Elderedge
1 tag
“One of the best pieces of advice I ever got, back when I was 23 and newly out of...”
– John Lilly
September 2011
20 posts
“Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near...”
– Jane Eyre (via bippityboppityboo)
