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Sun, 19 May 2013 19:15:02 -0400

nevver: Sometimes

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:07:17 -0400

Sometimes

"You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:02:15 -0400

“You tried to change, didn’t you? Closed your mouth more, tried to be softer, prettier, less volatile, less awake…You can’t make homes out of human beings. Someone should have already told you that.”

- Warsan Shire (via bleuveins)

"Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison...."

Sun, 19 May 2013 19:01:43 -0400

“Immature people falling in love destroy each other’s freedom, create a bondage, make a prison. Mature persons in love help each other to be free; they help each other to destroy all sorts of bondages. And when love flows with freedom there is beauty. When love flows with dependence there is ugliness.

A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don’t have the backbone, the spine; they don’t have the integrity to stand alone.

A mature person has the integrity to stand alone. And when a mature person gives love, he or she gives without any strings attached to it. When two mature persons are in love, one of the great paradoxes of life happens, one of the most beautiful phenomena: they are together and yet tremendously alone. They are together so much that they are almost one. Two mature persons in love help each other to become more free. There is no politics involved, no diplomacy, no effort to dominate. Only freedom and love.”

- Osho (via electrichoney)

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:34:49 -0400

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:33:35 -0400

another reminder.

Sat, 18 May 2013 21:33:00 -0400

sinandserotonin:

the world is heavy
but your bones
(just a cubic inch)
can hold 19,000 lbs

ounce for ounce
they are stronger than steel

atom for atom
you are more precious than diamond

and stars have died
so that you may live

you need to remember these things
when you say that you are weak
and worthless

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Sat, 18 May 2013 21:32:18 -0400

npr: Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:19:21 -0400

npr:

Unlike many celebrity chefs, who treat cooking like some mystical and convoluted ritual, Ina Garten (The Barefoot Countessa) approaches each dish with the nonchalance of someone who could be doing something else. That’s because she could be. Between 1974 and 1978, Garten worked in the Office of Management and Budget at the White House; starting in 1976, she was responsible for the budget of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission and for part of the Department of Energy’s. How Garten went from analyzing nuclear policy to overseeing her own cooking empire is one of the unlikelier stories of American reinvention.

— How Ina Garten went from nuclear policy analyst to beloved chef. Mark Joseph Stern - Second Acts - Slate Hive

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bloomplague: “We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus!...

Tue, 14 May 2013 23:06:46 -0400

bloomplague:

“We’re all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn’t. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing. ”

-Charles Bukowski

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Tue, 14 May 2013 22:28:32 -0400

"There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome,..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:22:18 -0400

““There is no escape. You can’t be a vagabond and an artist and still be a solid citizen, a wholesome, upstanding man. You want to get drunk, so you have to accept the hangover. You say yes to the sunlight and pure fantasies, so you have to say yes to the filth and the nausea. Everything is within you, gold and mud, happiness and pain, the laughter of childhood and the apprehension of death. Say yes to everything, shirk nothing. Don’t try to lie to yourself. You are not a solid citizen. You are not a Greek. You are not harmonious, or the master of yourself. You are a bird in the storm. Let it storm! Let it drive you! How much have you lied! A thousand times, even in your poems and books, you have played the harmonious man, the wise man, the happy, the enlightened man. In the same way, men attacking in war have played heroes, while their bowels twitched. My God, what a poor ape, what a fencer in the mirror man is— particularly the artist— particularly myself!””

- Herman Hesse (via cameronlee)

"How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?"

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:17:32 -0400

“How do you get so empty? Who takes it out of you?”

- Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

"In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling."

Tue, 14 May 2013 22:14:56 -0400

“In the morning there is meaning, in the evening there is feeling.”

- Gertrude Stein (via annie)

"Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes,..."

Tue, 14 May 2013 21:56:45 -0400

“Mind you, sometimes the angels smoke, hiding it with their sleeves, and when the archangel comes, they throw the cigarettes away: that’s when you get shooting stars.”

- ~ Vladimir Nabokov (via conflictingheart)

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Tue, 14 May 2013 21:44:46 -0400

"The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or..."

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:55:49 -0400

“The fact that you’re struggling doesn’t make you a burden. It doesn’t make you unloveable or undesirable or undeserving of care. It doesn’t make you too much or too sensitive or too needy. It makes you human. Everyone struggles. Everyone has a difficult time coping, and at times, we all fall apart. During these times, we aren’t always easy to be around — and that’s okay. No one is easy to be around one hundred percent of the time. Yes, you may sometimes be unpleasant or difficult. And yes, you may sometimes do or say things that make the people around you feel helpless or sad. But those things aren’t all of who you are and they certainly don’t discount your worth as a human being. The truth is that you can be struggling and still be loved. You can be difficult and still be cared for. You can be less than perfect, and still be deserving of compassion and kindness.”

- Daniell Koepke (via anditslove)

"But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling."

Mon, 13 May 2013 00:54:16 -0400

“But some people can’t tell where it hurts. They can’t calm down. They can’t ever stop howling.”

- Margaret Atwood (via anditslove)

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Sun, 12 May 2013 11:12:08 -0400

pleasent

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Sun, 12 May 2013 11:09:47 -0400