December 2011
71 posts
“My ideal vacation would be spending a week far away, by myself, in a cabin, with...”
– (via ohinsomnia)
“The human being is a part of a whole, called by us ‘Universe,’ a part limited by...”
– Albert Einstein (via yogachocolatelove)
“To be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via woocie)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via cultureofresistance)
“We must rapidly begin the shift from a “thing-oriented” society to a...”
– Martin Luther King Jr (via cultureofresistance)
“People who make no mistakes lack boldness and the spirit of adventure. They are...”
– Dr. Dale E. Turner (via purpleishboots)
“The world will not be destroyed by those who do evil, but by those who watch...”
– Albert Einstein (via cultureofresistance)
“In reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself … I...”
– C.S. Lewis (via presentingbooks)
“Love recognizes no barriers. It jumps hurdles, leaps fences, penetrates walls to...”
– Maya Angelou (via paperlover)
“Whether I’m gay, straight, or bisexual, tall or short, male or female, white or...”
– Zach Wahls, Iowa student-turned-activist and defender of his two lesbian moms, writing of his newfound fame & mission after that video you’ve most definitely seen went crazy-viral (15.3 million views!) last week. Ah, and yes, he’s single. (via newsweek)
misswallflower:
“To change one’s life: 1. Start immediately. 2. Do it flamboyantly. 3. No exceptions.”
― William James
“When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he...”
– Robert Henri (via paperlover)
“We do not receive wisdom, we must discover it for ourselves, after a journey...”
– Marcel Proust (via creatingaquietmind)
“The glory of friendship is not the outstretched hand, not the kindly smile, nor...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via paperlover)
“I have never fallen in love with a book that I did not love all the more the...”
– Patti Smith, in this wknd’s NYTBR essay “Read it Again, Sam” (via irisblasi)
“Unexpected intrusions of beauty. That is what life is.”
– Saul Bellow (via misswallflower)
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– — Anais Nin (via theladycheeky)
“the courage to treat me like a woman.”
(via thedame)
“What you dwell on is what you will draw into your life. You can either focus on...”
– Victoria Osteen (via simplyisis)
“Every word that is uttered out of your mouth is heard by someone, even if it’s...”
– Will Rivera (via simplyisis)
“My soul is impatient with itself, as with a bothersome child; its restlessness...”
– Fernando Pessoa (via paperlover)
“Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in harmony.”
– Mahatma Gandhi (via kari-shma)