January 2012
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“Films went downhill when words came in.”
– Tilda Swinton
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‘In the depths of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.’
- Albert Camus
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December 2011
23 posts
the chaos that controlled my mind: I am back where... →
chasteheart:
I am back where I was. Sixteen times I have been here, sixteen times I have gone from here. The world has come back to where it was after revolving around the sun, taking me with it. Now I know why New Year is supposed to be about another chance to set things right, because it takes you back to…
“I thought the most beautiful thing in the world must be shadow, the million...”
– The Bell Jar. Sylvia Plath. (via -thespeedofpain)
As much as I do love shadows, I do love the light behind these shadows - the ones that create them and support them.
“One of the strange things about living in the world is that it is only now and...”
– Frances Hodgson Burnett (via atomos)
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A blackhole surrounded by a galaxy of stars
“You think you know the world you are living in. If you can feel it, and touch it, and smell it, and taste it, then it must be so. You tell yourself that you would bet your life on the simple fact that the sky is blue. And one day someone comes along and informs you emphatically that you’re wrong. Blue, you insist. Blue as the ocean. Blue as a whale. But that person shakes his head,...
“There is so much about my fate that I cannot control, but other things do fall...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via slekes)
“It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border...”
– Milan Kundera (via danseurs)
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“Human beings are funny. They long to be with the person they love but refuse to...”
– Sigmund Freud (via slekes)
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November 2011
19 posts
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What the water gave me
A double helix of existence - in knowing death, I’m also knowing life.
“I like to live in the sound of water, in the feel of the mountain air. A sharp...”
– William Stafford (via slekes)
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Living in the Moment
It is quite ironic that in times of adversity, the ultimate place of comfort lies in the present. Looking to the past only makes us sadder - we start to see the growing ocean that forms between who we are now and who we were. Looking to the future only guarantees undue optimism - we see who we want to be and where we stand and expect some form of magic carpet to move us to our destination....
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“At times the world may seem an unfriendly and sinister place, but believe that...”
– Lemony Snicket (via slekes)
