W.G. Sebald

Even now, when I try to remember… the darkness does not lift but becomes heavier as I think how little we can hold in mind, how everything is constantly lapsing in oblivion with every extinguished life, how the world is, as it were, draining itself, in that the history of countless places and objects which themselves have no power of memory is never heard, never described or passed on.

W.G. Sebald

Elias Canetti

His head is made of stars, but not yet arranged into constellations.” - *Elias Canetti

Rainer Maria Rilke

You see, I want a lot.
Perhaps I want everything:
the darkness that comes with every infinite fall
and the shivering blaze of every step up.
Rainer Maria Rilke

Paracelsus

He who is born in imagination discovers the latent forces of Nature… . Besides the stars that are established, there is yet another—Imagination—that begets a new star and a new heaven.
Paracelsus

Anaïs Nin

You live like this, sheltered, in a delicate world, and you believe you are living. Then you read a book… or you take a trip… and you discover that you are not living, that you are hibernating. The symptoms of hibernating are easily detectable: first, restlessness. The second symptom (when hibernating becomes dangerous and might degenerate into death): absence of pleasure. That is all. It appears like an innocuous illness. Monotony, boredom, death. Millions live like this (or die like this) without knowing it. They work in offices. They drive a car. They picnic with their families. They raise children. And then some shock treatment takes place, a person, a book, a song, and it awakens them and saves them from death. Some never awaken.”
— Anaïs Nin

Hafiz

Look, most everyone is diseased From ‘making love’ to Nothing.” ~ Hafiz ”

quote #2

I had been my whole life a bell, and never knew it until at that moment I was lifted and struck.
Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

quotes

Don’t tell me the moon is shining; show me the glint of light on broken glass. ~Anton Chekhov”

special place

There is a special place in hell for women who do not help other women."
Madeleine K. Albright

Be happy for no reason

"Be happy for no reason, like a child. If you are happy for a reason, you’re in trouble, because that reason can be taken from you."

Deepak Chopra

Nietzsche

And those who were seen dancing were thought to be insane by those who could not hear the music.

Quote of the day

Do not be satisfied with the stories that come before you. Unfold your own myth.”
RUMI

(and one more bc im hooked)

The breeze
at dawn
has secrets
to tell you.
Don’t go back
to sleep.

rumi

via: Andromeda Sky

"I have found the paradox that if I love until it hurts, then there is no hurt, but only more love." Mother Teresa of Calcutta

Martin Luther King, Jr.

At the center of non-violence stands the principle of love.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

Everything that we see is a shadow cast by that which we do not see.
Martin Luther King, Jr.

my dick is a pussy

"I disagree with the use of the word “pussy” to describe a weak person. Because the vagina is the tougher of the two genitals. Think about it. It can pass something fifty times its size through it. You can pound on it for hours and it goes, “More! More!” It bleeds every month and it won’t die! It’s like the Predator! Meanwhile my penis… If it gets cold or there’s a fight he’s like, “I’m outta here!” What I’m trying to say is… my dick is a pussy."
Hal Sparks (via bean22)

i went to church today

i love coming home to visit my fam.. i just heard my Lil 6 year old niece say laughing to my nephew "you farted on Jesus"... i love it!

sappy

If ever there is tomorrow when we’re not together.. there is something you must always remember: you are braver than you believe, stronger than you seem, and smarter than you think. but the most important thing is, even if we’re apart, I’ll always be with you.
— Winnie the Pooh

Admit something

“Admit something:
Everyone you see, you say to them, “love me.”
Of course you don’t do this aloud; otherwise, someone would call the cops.
Still, though, think about this, this great pull in us to connect.
Why not become the one who lives with a full moon in each eye
that is always saying,
in that sweet moon language
exactly what every other eye in this world is dying to hear?”
Hafiz

drunk

You have to be always drunk. That’s all there is to it—it’s the only way. So as not to feel the horrible burden of time that breaks your back and bends you to the earth, you have to be continually drunk. But on what? Wine, poetry or virtue, as you wish. But be drunk.
— Charles Baudelaire

combination of truth and fiction.

“Most people don’t care whether you’re telling them the truth, as long as you’re amusing them. Most people are a combination of truth and fiction. I guess that’s what it all comes down to. We’re all inventing ourselves in some form or another.” — Tom Waits