- January 31
- , 2012
Listen to the people who love you. Believe that they are worth living for even when you don’t believe it. Seek out the memories depression takes away and project them into the future. Be brave; be strong; take your pills. Exercise because it’s good for you even if every step weighs a thousand pounds. Eat when food itself disgusts you. Reason with yourself when you have lost your reason.
Andrew Solomon (via atomos)
Now I am quietly waiting for
the catastrophe of my personality
to seem beautiful again,
and interesting, and modern.
The country is grey and
brown and white in trees,
snows and skies of laughter
always diminishing, less funny
not just darker, not just grey.
It may be the coldest day of
the year, what does he think of
that? I mean, what do I? And if I do,
perhaps I am myself again.(from Meditations In An Emergency)
Blessed are the merciful, for they will be shown mercy.
- January 2
- , 2012
One is seeking something that is impossible to find or about which nothing is known. In such moments all well-meant, sensible advice is completely useless - advice that urges one to be responsible, to take a holiday, not to work so hard (or to work harder), to have more (or less) human contact or to take up a hobby. None of that helps, or at best only rarely. There is only one thing that seems to work; and that it is to turn directly toward the approaching darkness without prejudice and totally naively, and to try to find out what its secret aim is and what it wants from you.
From ‘The first approach of the unconscious’ in Man and his Symbols. Edited by Carl Jung.(Source: bookoflead)
“For almost as long as there have been rights, there have been misgivings, cavils, critiques, and outright attacks on the idea of rights.”
Universal Rights Down to Earth by Richard Thompson Ford“Sprung, the wild-oat seed cocks
a grasshopper leg, and another
corkscrews into a heavy sock,
too thick for summer.”
I honestly don’t pay much attention, I don’t try to focus on anything that doesn’t affect me personally and how I go out there every single day. I’m just going to continue to work hard and focus on what I can control.
William Faulkner
J.K. Rowling
Ernest HemingwayTim Tebow, Quarterback, Denver Broncos (yet still the best writing advice I have heard today)
- November 22
- , 2011
Do you know when they say soul-mates? Everybody uses it in personal ads. “Soul-mate wanted”. It doesn’t mean too much now. But soul mates- think about it. When your soul-whatever that is anyway-something so alive when you make music or love and so mysteriously hidden most of the rest of the time, so colorful and big but without color or shape-when your soul finds another soul it can recognize even before the rest of you knows about it. The rest of you just feels sweaty and jumpy at first. And your souls get married without even meaning to-even if you can’t be together for some reason in real life, your souls just go ahead and make the wedding plans. A soul’s wedding must be too beautiful to even look at. It must be blinding. In must be like all the weddings in the world-gondolas with canopies of doves, champagne glasses shattering, wings of veils, drums beating, flutes and trumpets,showers of roses. And after that happens-that’s it, this is it. But sometimes you have to let that person go. When you are little, people , movie and fairy tales all tell you that one day you’re going to meet this person. So you keep waiting and it’s a lot harder than they make it sound. Then you meet and you think, okay, now we can just get on with it but you find out that sometimes your sould brother partner lover has other ideas about that.
Francesca Lia BlockThis is what happened with my wife and I. For reals. When we met it felt as though we had shared an endless number of days together. Intimately tied together before either of us knew the other.
(Source: atomos)
A dream you dream alone is only a dream. A dream you dream together is reality.
John Lennon
- October 9
- , 2011
