February 2012
6 posts
“A flower falls, even though we love it; and a weed grows, even though we do not...”
– Dogen (via quotefeelings)
January 2012
25 posts
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing,...”
– Alan Watts (via neil-gaiman)
2 tags
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful...”
– everything is illuminated (via theartofhiding)
6 tags
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Moon and Sixpence (via psychotherapy)
3 tags
“Consuming is construed as an affirmation of self, a way of acting in the world,...”
– Trevor Norris, 2005
International Journal of Baudrillard Studies
(via planningthejourney)
An Existential Life: The Critic as Artist, Oscar... →
fuckyeahexistentialism:
Ernest: Must we go, then, to Art for everything?
Gilbert: For everything. Because Art does not hurt us. The tears that we shed at a play are a type of the exquisite sterile emotions that it is the function of Art to awaken. We weep, but we are not wounded. We grieve, but our grief is not…
Buying New Experiences, Not Things, Tied to... →
psychotherapy:
via Psych Central:
A new study suggests that those who spend money to do things are happier than those who spend their money on possessions.
In the study, investigators determined extraverts and people who are open to new experiences are more apt to spend more of their disposable income on experiences, such as concert tickets or a weekend away, rather than hitting the mall...
“[The madwoman said] ‘How is humanity these days, prince? I remember it as being...”
– The Jokers, Albert Cossery — no joke, one of the best books I’ve read this year. (via fuckyeahmentalhealth)
“Time takes it all, whether you want it to or not. Time takes it all, time bears...”
– Stephen King (via peacelovemusicfaith)
“One makes mistakes, gets led astray, digresses. If one could see one’s crooked...”
– Hanif Kureishi | Intimacy (via blogut)
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
“You can’t stay in your corner of the forest waiting for others to come to you....”
– Winnie the Pooh (Submitted by my-candy-jar)
psychology notes.: "Relationships are not static... →
psychotherapy:
(via Psychology Today’s recent cover story, “Are You With the Right Mate?”)
“…Romance itself seeds the eventual belief that we have chosen the wrong partner. The early stage of a relationship, most marked by intense attraction and infatuation, is in many ways akin to cocaine intoxication,…
“In mature love, we do not look to our partner to provide our happiness, and we...”
– Christine Meinecke, author of Everybody Marries the Wrong Person via psychotherapy (via electrichoney)
December 2011
19 posts
fred-wilson:
Stamp - The Rural Alberta...
“Life is funny sometimes, it can push pretty hard, but if you look close enough...”
– One Tree Hill (via julie911)
Harriet the Hell-Raising Heroine →
nyrbclassics:
From NPR’s All Things Considered:
Next we come to what may be the single most detestable female character ever created: Harriet, the protagonist of Iris Owens’ 1973 novel After Claude. She is arrogant yet horribly insecure; dismissive and contemptuous, yet needy and pathetic. She is disgusted with everyone around her, yet she begs hideously for their acceptance. But even as her...
“People, even more than things, have to be restored, renewed, revived, reclaimed,...”
– Audrey Hepburn (via quote-book)
bijan:
Bright Eyes + First Aid Kit - We’re Going...
“That’s one of the worst things about living with brilliant people— they’re so...”
– The Mermaid Chair by Sue Monk Kidd (via quote-book)
“Keep moving—that was his motto. Don’t dwell on things. Don’t stay in one place...”
– Leo, The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan (via quote-book)
“Alone in my heart and alone in my mind. Alone everywhere, all the time, for as...”
– A Million Little Pieces - James Frey (via quote-book)
“The man had killed the thing he loved, and so he had to die
Yet each man kills...”
– from The Ballad of Reading Goal by Oscar Wilde (via thedaysarenotfullenough) (via libraryland, loveintheshadowsistheonlykind)
2 tags
People
“We all need someone to look at us. we can be divided into four categories according to the kind of look we wish to live under. the first category longs for the look of an infinite number of anonymous eyes, in other words, for the look of the public. the second category is made up of people who have a vital need to be looked at by many known eyes. they are the tireless hosts of cocktail...
2 tags
Compassion
“for there is nothing heavier than compassion. Not even one’s own pain weighs so heavy as the pain one feels with someone, for someone, a pain intensified by the imagination and prolonged by a hundred echoes.”
- Milan Kundera, THE UNBEARABLE LIGHTNESS OF BEING
“The bruises go away, and so does how you hate, and so does the feeling that...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer (via beautyisanillusion)
“I go back to the reading room, where I sink down in the sofa and into the world...”
– Haruki Murakami | Kafka on the Shore (via blogut)
