“If there is a book you want to read but isn`t written yet, write it.”
—Shel Silverstein (via bornreadygeneration)
March 2012
“We are all mortal until the first kiss and the second glass of wine.”
—Eduardo Galeano (via youngfolksociety)
“The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.”
—Carl Jung (via girlwithoutwings)
“Ever since puberty, ever since I was 11 or 12, I’ve had cyclical depression. That’s something that has been a defining feature of my life as an adult. It’s manageable. But it’s real. And it doesn’t take away from my joy or my work or my energy, but coping with depression is something that is part of the everyday way that I live and have lived for as long as I can remember. … Depression for me, you can’t distract your way out of it. … When you are depressed, it’s like the rest of the world is the mother ship, and you’re out there on a little pod and your line gets cut and you don’t connect with anything. You sort of disappear.”
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Rachel Maddow, on depression
(via NPR’s Fresh Air)
“And I felt like my heart had been so thoroughly and irreparably broken that there could be no real joy again, that at best there might eventually be a little contentment. Everyone wanted me to get help and rejoin life, pick up the pieces and move on, and I tried to, I wanted to, but I just had to lie in the mud with my arms wrapped around myself, eyes closed, grieving, until I didn’t have to anymore.”
—Anne Lamott (via creatingaquietmind)
“When they throw the water on the witch, she says, “Who would have thought a good little girl like you could destroy my beautiful wickedness.” That line inspired my life. I sometimes say it to myself before I go to sleep, like a prayer.”
—John Waters describes his favourite scene in The Wizard of Oz (via bohemea)
“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”
—Kurt Vonnegut, The Sirens of Titan (via girlwithoutwings)
Atonement would be so much better if Kiera Knightly weren't in it
TRUTH BOMB
Truthier bomb: EVERYTHING would be so much better without Kiera Knightley.
“I don’t care about anyone, and the feeling is quite obviously mutual.”
—Sylvia Plath. (via idwellinpossibility)
“When you can’t run, you crawl. And when you can’t do that, you find someone to carry you.”
—(via freeasabirdfaraway)
“I wish I could write. I get these ideas but I never seem to be able to put them in words.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via youngfolksociety)
“Being tender and open is beautiful. As a woman, I feel continually shhh’ed. Too sensitive. Too mushy. Too wishy washy. Blah blah. Don’t let someone steal your tenderness. Don’t allow the coldness and fear of others to tarnish your perfectly vulnerable beating heart. Nothing is more powerful than allowing yourself to truly be affected by things. Whether it’s a song, a stranger, a mountain, a rain drop, a tea kettle, an article, a sentence, a footstep, feel it all – look around you. All of this is for you. Take it and have gratitude. Give it and feel love.”
—Zooey Deschanel (via sugar-and-heartbreak)
“I like the sea: we understand one another. It is always yearning, sighing for something it cannot have; and so am I.”
—Greta Garbo (Picture Show Magazine Interview, 1927)
