June 2012
1 post
“Love me or hate me, I swear it won’t make or break me.”
– ‘Lil Wayne (via blaqmagic)
May 2012
18 posts
“Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.”
“Dont try, be.”
– Augusten Burroughs
my dating personality profile [accuracy: spot on]
Brandy M.,
With the strong degree of self-confidence that you possess, it’s no surprise that you get along well with most people. Indeed, it’s self-confidence that allows people to feel comfortable interacting with others without feeling insecure and vulnerable. For this reason, you shouldn’t have much difficulty in romance, at least not initially. Your social skills will likely help relieve any...
Absolutely. Fucking. Beautiful.
“I’d like to repeat the advice that I gave you before, in that I think you really should make a radical change in your lifestyle and begin to boldly do things which you may previously never have thought of doing, or been too hesitant to attempt. So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a...
Augusten Burroughs, "This Is How"
‘Beliefs such as, “if it’s meant to happen, it’ll happen,” suggest there is a paid employee overseeing the details of your life.
On the one hand, such a relaxed attitude ought to be commended.
Except this “if we’re meant to be, we’ll be” attitude isn’t truly relaxed. So I’m not going to commend you for it. This attitude is more...
Jonathan Franzen (cont.)
“He was lovable the way a child is lovable, and he was capable of returning love with a childlike purity. If love is nevertheless excluded from his work, it’s because he never quite felt that he deserved to receive it. He was a lifelong prisoner on the island of himself. What looked like gentle contours from a distance were in fact sheer cliffs. Sometimes only a little of him was crazy,...
“Depression presents itself as a realism regarding the rottenness of the world in...”
– Jonathan Franzen
“I, with a deeper instinct, choose a man who compels my strength, who makes...”
– Anais Nin
“Imagine that human existence is defined by an Ache: the Ache of our not being,...”
– Jonathan Franzen, How to be Alone: Essays (via honeyforthehomeless)
April 2012
27 posts
“Many adults are put off when youngsters pose scientific questions. Children ask...”
– Carl Sagan
Absolutely. This.
(via creatingaquietmind)
“The shoulder blades sticking out as if they wanted to grow wings through that...”
– Charles Bukowski
“I am done with my graceless heart
So tonight I’m gonna cut it out and...”
– Florence + The Machine
“In every man’s memories there are such things as he will reveal not to everyone, but perhaps only to friends. There are also such as he will reveal not even to friends, but only to himself, and that in secret. Then, finally, there are such as a man is afraid to reveal even to himself, and every decent man will have accumulated quite a few things of this sort.”
—Notes From Underground by Fyodor...
“I dream a day that God will surface, to retrieve his nails and open your heart.”
– Crosses - “Option”
“You either like me or you don’t. It took me Twenty-something years to learn how...”
– Daniel Franzese (via creatingaquietmind)
“I don’t like standard beauty, there is no beauty without strangeness.”
– Karl Lagerfeld (via talkingtokafka)
“But still, I find the need to remind myself of the temporariness of a day, to...”
– Gayle Forman, Where She Went (via creatingaquietmind)
“I must get my soul back from you; I am killing my flesh without it.”
– Sylvia Plath (via thechocolatebrigade)
Resilience
Resilience is that ineffable quality that allows some people to be knocked down by life and come back stronger than ever. Rather than letting failure overcome them and drain their resolve, they find a way to rise from the ashes.
I am a creature of resilience. I have learned to master the art of hardening, mending the cracks from every fall. See, the truth is, there is always, always a light at...
“He did not care if she was heartless, vicious and vulgar, stupid and grasping,...”
– W. Somerset Maugham, Of Human Bondage (via helplesslyamazed)
All I really want is a quiet place to escape to, a place where I can scream so loud until my throat bleeds of exhaustion. Then, for a moment, I can be distracted by a pain other than what’s inside my chest. These “masks” I wear are a protective illusion of what’s really going on behind these eyes. And you’ll never know, because I’ll never tell.
I’ll...
“The nostalgia of a moment’s love can be an illusionary precipice from...”
– Mike Norton
“No, we weren’t lovers, but in a way we had opened ourselves to each other even...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via creatingaquietmind)
Excerpt from Party Of One
Even so, I do not seize the phone and call anyone when I feel miserable. This is one of those acid tests that separate the true loner from the person who is alone but would much rather not be: even in the gloomiest gloom, it is not my instinct to talk it over. Not that I am sufficiently brilliant as to console myself every time. It is more of a wallow. But instinct is instinct, and instinct...
March 2012
9 posts
“You sometimes think you want to disappear.. But all you really want is to be...”
“I have learned that if you must leave a place that you have lived in and loved...”
“It’s the inspired student that continues to learn on their own. That’s what...”
– Neil deGrasse Tyson (via nathanielstuart)