December 2010
37 posts
Aretha Franklin & King Curtis - Live At Fillmore... →
Unable are the Loved to die For Love is Immortality, Nay, it is Deity— Unable they that love—to die For Love reforms Vitality Into Divinity.
- Emily Dickinson, for Dennis.
Annie
“The secret of seeing is, then, the pearl of great price. If I thought he could teach me to find it and keep it forever I would stagger barefoot across and hundred deserts after any lunatic at all. But although the pearl may be found, it may not be sought. The literature of illumination reveals this above all: although it comes to those who wait for it, it is always, even to the most...
Lovers may kill their own love story only because they are unable to tolerate...
– Alain de Botton, Essays in Love, Chapter 16: The Fear of Happiness
LENNONYC.
grandchildren:
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Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things that you...
– Mark Twain
Amen
malcolmjohnson:
Peace is the only battle worth waging.
—Albert Camus
If you were stuck in a computer like Tron I’d... →
New Tumblr to follow: Haiku pickup lines (via hannahjenkins, zachbulick).
What might a joyful mind be?
When your mind does not need to be right.
When you no longer need to compare yourself with others.
When you no longer need to compete—not even in your own head.
When your mind can be creative, but without needing anyone to know.
When you can live in contentment with whatever the moment offers.
When you do not need to analyze or judge things in or out, positive or negative.
When your mind...
Christianity is a faith that has no interest in power or no meaning in an...
– Sufjan Stevens (via wedreamtlove, zoobunny)
It's naught, a poem
It’s not about dollars. It’s not about sense. It’s not about boyfriends, bookends, or how the whole big blue world ends. It’s not about up. It’s not about down. It’s not about all that fucking around. It’s not about guitar strings. Or shoestrings. Old things or new things. It’s not about jackets. Not about pants. Not about giving it one last chance....