Entropy, etc.

"Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a..."

Sun, 28 Apr 2013 19:08:31 +0800

“Above all, don’t lie to yourself. The man who lies to himself and listens to his own lie comes to a point that he cannot distinguish the truth within him, or around him, and so loses all respect for himself and for others. And having no respect he ceases to love.”

- The Brothers Karamazov (via iluminacje)

"Something within her refused to grow. Something endless, eternal. Something bold. Something..."

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 12:48:31 +0800

“Something within her refused to grow. Something endless, eternal. Something bold. Something warrior-like. She looked up at the stars, she could feel, she felt as if she could pluck them one by one and send them spinning into the world, like small beautiful elastic mercurial weapons. Now too, the time is coming.”

- Patti Smith’s beautiful tribute to Virginia Woolf, who took her own life on March 28, 1941. (via explore-blog)

literaryjukebox: Nothing is easier and more stultifying than...

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 07:39:11 +0800

literaryjukebox:

Nothing is easier and more stultifying than to make rules which exist out of touch with facts, in a vacuum.

Virginia Woolf in “How Should One Read a Book?”

Song: “Everybody Wants to Rule the World” by Patti Smith

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bofransson: Willows in Snow Emile Nolde - 1907-1908

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:01:40 +0800

bofransson:

Willows in Snow Emile Nolde - 1907-1908

"This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless, Away from books, away from art, the day..."

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 07:00:38 +0800

“This is thy hour O Soul, thy free flight into the wordless,
Away from books, away from art, the day erased, the lesson done,
Thee fully forth emerging, silent, gazing, pondering the themes
thou lovest best.
Night, sleep, death and the stars.”

- Walt Whitman, A Clear Midnight (via insipidexpectations)

nevver: I want! I want! — William Blake

Sun, 24 Mar 2013 06:58:06 +0800

nevver:

I want! I want! — William Blake

"We can’t begin being empathetic when another person arrives. We have to already have made a space in..."

Thu, 21 Mar 2013 19:49:34 +0800

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We can’t begin being empathetic when another person arrives. We have to already have made a space in our lives where empathy can thrive. And that means being open—truly open—to feeling emotions we may not want to feel. It means allowing another’s experiences to gut us. It means ceding control.

Empathy begins with vulnerability. And being vulnerable, especially in our work, is fucking terrifying.

”

- Sara Wachter-Boettcher on empathy. Complement with Brenè Brown on why vulnerability is the birthplace of love, belonging, joy, courage, empathy, and just about everything that matters. (via explore-blog)

etsy: Brooke Schmidt’s lovely pieced poems, made from words cut...

Fri, 15 Mar 2013 22:56:15 +0800

etsy:

Brooke Schmidt’s lovely pieced poems, made from words cut from old books.

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Fri, 15 Mar 2013 19:29:41 +0800

"I feel numb and dumb, and unable to lay hands on any words."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 22:48:30 +0800

“I feel numb and dumb, and unable to lay hands on any words.”

- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via c-ovet)

aseaofquotes: Patricia A. McKillip, Solstice Wood

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 18:31:41 +0800

aseaofquotes:

Patricia A. McKillip, Solstice Wood

"No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself."

Tue, 12 Mar 2013 07:17:05 +0800

“No existence can be validly fulfilled if it is limited to itself.”

- Simone de Beauvoir, The Ethics Of Ambiguity (via fuckyeahexistentialism)

"I’m the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she’s the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging..."

Mon, 11 Mar 2013 21:55:08 +0800

“I’m the lonely voyager standing on deck, and she’s the sea. The sky is a blanket of gray, merging with the gray sea off on the horozon. It’s hard to tell the difference between sea and sky. Between voyager and sea. Between reality and the workings of the heart.”

- Kafka on the Shore by Haruki Murakami

(via oh-papillon)

apoetreflects: “It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so...

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 21:08:12 +0800

apoetreflects:

“It is the time you have wasted for your rose that makes your rose so important.”

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, from The Little Prince (Reynal & Hitchcock, 1943)

nevver: The Pathology of Nowhere, Federico Infante

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 17:36:27 +0800

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nevver:

The Pathology of Nowhere, Federico Infante

"Where, where is that place—I carry it in my heart—, where the weights are still heavy."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 15:12:41 +0800

“Where, where is that place—I carry it in my heart—,
where the weights are still heavy.”

- Rainer Maria Rilke, adapted from “The Fifth Elegy”, in Duino Elegies, translated by Edward Snow (via growing-orbits)

"In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 12:48:25 +0800

“In the world of the dreamer there was solitude: all the exaltations and joys came in the moment of preparation for living. They took place in solitude. But with action came anxiety, and the sense of insuperable effort made to match the dream, and with it came weariness, discouragement, and the flight into solitude again. And then in solitude, in the opium den of remembrance, the possibility of pleasure again.”

- Anaïs Nin, Children of the Albatross (via insipidexpectations)

"People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into..."

Sun, 10 Mar 2013 10:24:26 +0800

““People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.””

- Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters (via creatingaquietmind)

hellanne: Books (by nicoyangjie)

Sat, 09 Mar 2013 22:23:46 +0800

hellanne:

Books (by nicoyangjie)

aseaofquotes: Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot Submitted...

Mon, 04 Mar 2013 12:48:35 +0800

aseaofquotes:

Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Idiot

Submitted by existinginafakeworld.