April 2011
“…recite the list
of what you’ve learned to do without.
It is stronger than...”
– Stephen Dunn, from “Traveling” (adapted from yesyes)
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Failing and Flying, Jack Gilbert
Failing and Flying, Jack Gilbert
Everyone forgets that Icarus also flew. It’s the same when love comes to an end, or the marriage fails and people say they knew it was a mistake, that everybody said it would never work. That she was old enough to know better. But anything worth doing is worth doing badly. Like being there by that summer ocean on...
“Observe your own body. It breathes. You breathe when you are asleep, when you...”
– Ilchi Lee (Thank you, acorda & slychedelic)
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“One thing I am certain of, I do not want to be betrayed, but that’s quite hard...”
– Jeanette Winterson
(via holdonmagnolia)
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“Every time you see a flood like that on the news you tell yourself: That’s it....”
– Kafka on the Shore (via slampiece)
“Listen—are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?”
– Mary Oliver (via femmenoirexxcessive)
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“In the end
these things matter most:
How well did you love?
How fully did you...”
– Siddhārtha Gautama (via kari-shma)
(via tsunamis)
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“You know, they say that there is a part
of the human chest that if you strike...”
– Cristin O’Keefe Aptowicz, excerpt from Not As Smart As I Think I Am (via align)
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