May 2013
13 posts
“But who can say what’s best? That’s why you need to grab whatever chance you...”
– Haruki Murakami (via accidentalism)
“The truly creative mind in any field is no more than this: A human creature born...”
– Pearl S. Buck (via c-ovet)
“A mother is the truest friend we have, when trials heavy and sudden fall upon...”
– Washington Irving (via larmoyante)
“I was by myself for a pretty long time. I needed to do that. I think everyone...”
– Justin Vernon of Bon Iver, in an interview speaking about living in his father’s cabin for three months when writing For Emma, Forever Ago (via dulcetdecember)
“The only thing standing between you and your goal is the bullshit story you keep...”
– Jordan Belfort (via dulcetdecember)
“Only in America can you be pro-death penalty, pro-war, pro-unmanned drone bombs,...”
– John Fugelsang (via coffeeurlgirl)
“Oh, you all know at least one. Who knows, maybe you are one. A girl who hates...”
– Self-Fulfilling Prophecies: The “I Hate Other Girls” Trap (via larmoyante)
“Sometimes you’re 23 and standing in the kitchen of your house making breakfast...”
– The Winter of the Air (via aulacrimosa)
“Wychowałeś się na Masłowskiej. W trakcie studiów czytasz Bukowskiego i...”
– make life harder
“The highly sensitive tend to be philosophical or spiritual in their orientation,...”
– Susan Cain (via c-ovet)
“3 May. Completely indifferent and apathetic. A well gone dry, water at an...”
– The diaries of Franz Kafka (via c-ovet)
“If you get stuck, get away from your desk. Take a walk, take a bath, go to...”
– Hilary Mantel (via larmoyante)
April 2013
25 posts
“I don’t know about lying for novelists. I look at some of the great novelists,...”
– Maya Angelou (via theparisreview)
“It was not the feeling of completeness I so needed, but the feeling of not being...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via dulcetdecember)
“The happiest people are those who think the most interesting thoughts. Those who...”
– William Lyon Phelps (via dulcetdecember)
“The goal shouldn’t be to get women to focus on how we are all gorgeous in our...”
– Beauty above all else: The real problem with Dove’s new viral ad - NYmag.com (via annfriedman)
“Most people are not even aware of their need to conform. They live under the...”
– Erich Fromm (via c-ovet)
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– Haruki Murakami (via holdentumblr)
“A little talent is a good thing to have if you want to be a writer. But the only...”
– Stephen King (via larmoyante)
“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the...”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via c-ovet)
“Sometimes I’ll be talking to someone, and I’ll be like ‘Yeah, I’ve been really...”
– John Mulaney (via fabulousbitch69)
“There are 7 billion people on this planet who I have not met,
and 195 countries...”
– Unknown (via dulcetdecember)
“I don’t think you can talk about progress in art—movement, but not progress.”
– Donald Barthelme (via theparisreview)
“I was always hungry for love. Just once, I wanted to know what it was like to...”
– Haruki Murakami, Norwegian Wood (via dulcetdecember)
“We have been known from the very start. Our eye color, our hairline, our...”
– Sufjan Stevens (via alldelightedperson)
“Books were only one type of receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were...”
– Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451 (via bookmania)
“Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward.”
– Abraham Verghese, Cutting for Stone (via larmoyante)
“Stop comparing where you’re at with where everyone else is. It doesn’t move you...”
– Daniell Koepke (via obdormio)
“Every widow wakes one morning, perhaps after years of pure and unwavering...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Everything Is Illuminated (via bookmania)
“Stop telling women that we should find ourselves beautiful and that we should...”
– Elyse Mofo, “Don’t Tell Me to Love My Body” (via verticillium)
“What was lost was lost. There was no retrieving it, however you schemed, no...”
– Haruki Murakami, Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (via 4mbivalent)
March 2013
22 posts
“A library is a good place to go when you feel unhappy, for there, in a book, you...”
– E.B. White (via cite-belle)
“You will be stupid. You will worry your parents. You will question your own...”
– Ira Glass (via dulcetdecember)
“Everyone tells a story about themselves in their own head. That story makes you...”
– Mia Sheridan, Leo (via dulcetdecember)
“If you’re an aspiring author, director, musician, startup founder, these long...”
– Ang Lee and the uncertainty of success | jeffjlin.com (via beautyisanillusion)
“Sometimes people let the same problem make them miserable for years when they...”
– Andy Warhol (via dulcetdecember)
“I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning...”
– Brian Tracy (via dulcetdecember)
“The only people that can afford to take an unpaid job are those that are already...”
– (via showhersomebeauty)
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot...”
– Elizabeth Taylor (via dulcetdecember)
“Don’t be jealous of anyone. I guarantee you, if everyone walked into a room, and...”
– Kim Gruenenfelder, A Total Waste of Makeup (via emptieds)
“It’s a lot easier to be angry at someone than it is to tell them you’re hurt.”
– Tom Gates (via dulcetdecember)
“Most of the writers I know are weird hybrids. There’s a strong streak of...”
– David Foster Wallace (via beautyisanillusion)
