May 2013
1 post
“There is a language older by far and deeper than words. It is the language of...”
– A Language Older Than Words, Derrick Jensen (via clutchtightly)
April 2013
9 posts
“I would kiss you in the middle of a lightning storm. I would kiss you knowing it...”
– Andrea Gibson, Wasabi (via briannadiane)
“Socializing is as exhausting as giving blood. People assume we loners are...”
– Anneli Rufus (via wordsthat-speak)
“So it is with minds. Unless you keep them busy with some definite subject that...”
– Michel de Montaigne (via 9amatistas)
“At moments she seems non-human, because she is so unconscious of her acts,...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary Of Anaïs Nin Volume I 1931-1934 (via violentwavesofemotion)
“The anus [is] this amazing thing that nobody appreciates. Here’s this ring of...”
– Why “Asshole” Is High Praise and Other Anatomy Lessons With Mary Roach
Over some beers and grilled cheese, we talked to author Mary Roach about indelicate things such as rectal smuggling (three phones at a time!?!), fake poop, and chewing diets. Intrigued? Disgusted? Check out her new book, Gulp!...
March 2013
18 posts
“To have her here in bed with me, breathing on me, her hair in my mouth- I count...”
– Henry Miller (via rainydaysandblankets)
“Intelligence has always had a pornographic influence on me.”
– Toni Morrison (via taraghmeni)
“Blake said that the body was the soul’s prison unless the five senses are fully...”
– ― Jim Morrison (via theladycheeky)
“I used to be a hopeless romantic. I am still a hopeless romantic. I used to...”
– Jeanette Winterson; ”Lighthousekeeping” (via violentwavesofemotion)
“Something changes the moment you decide you’ve found a person you are ready to...”
– Anaïs Nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934 (via ethostheatre)
“Somebody loves you if they don’t mind the quiet. They don’t mind running errands...”
– How To Tell If Someone Loves You (via perfect)
A great description.
(via gentledom)
“My main goal is to stay alive. To keep fooling myself into hanging around. To...”
– Henry Rollins, Roomanitarian (via beksinski)
“Nobody can save you but yourself — and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not...”
– Charles Bukowski
“She puts her hands on either side of my face, and the room falls away. I have...”
– Jodi Picoult (via rainydaysandblankets)
“I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...”
– ~ Anaïs Nin
LADY CHEEKY: The term “shadow” was first used by... →
theladycheeky:
The term “shadow” was first used by Carl G. Jung to describe the repressed or denied part of the Self. Robert Bly popularized this idea in A Little Book on the Human Shadow. Bly says that we were each born into a “360-degree personality.” As infants we expressed the full circle of our human…
“We are all alone, born alone, die alone, and — in spite of True Romance...”
– Hunter S. Thompson (via nathanielstuart)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin
“‘She had an overwhelming desire to tell him, like the most banal of women. Don’t...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (via slightlypretentious)
“We could do ourselves a tremendous favour by letting go of the people who poison...”
– Steve Maraboli (via rainydaysandblankets)
February 2013
14 posts
apoetreflects:
How many times have I come to you out of my head with joy, if ever a man was, for to approach you I have given up the light and all directions. I come to you lost, wholly trusting as a man who goes into the forest unarmed. It is as though I descend slowly earthward out of the air. I rest in peace in you, when I arrive at last.
—Wendell Berry, section 4 of “The Country...
“To touch and feel each thing in the world, to know it by sight and by name, and...”
– Nicole Krauss; from “Man Walks Into a Room” (via growing-orbits)
beautiful.
“”Love alone is capable of uniting living beings in such a way as to...”
– ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“When I shut my mouth I lost a part of myself so ingrained, so accustomed, so...”
– Hanne Blank, DEEP THROAT #1: ON BEING AND UNBEING A SINGER - WWW.THERUMPUS.NET
(via theladycheeky)
“All my life my heart has yearned for something I cannot name.”
– Andre Breton (via coooode)
“The role of a writer is not to say what we all can say, but what we are unable...”
– Anais Nin
“Real intimacy is a sacred experience. It never exposes its secret trust and...”
– ― John O’Donohue, Anam Cara: A Book of Celtic Wisdom
“Everyone sees what you appear to be, few experience what you really are.”
– Niccolò Machiavelli, The Prince (via sickflower)
“This is what is hardest: to close the open hand because one loves.”
– Friedrich Nietzsche (via isthequestiontheanswer)
“”A pearl is a beautiful thing that is produced by an injured life. It is the...”
– Stephan Hoeller (via theladycheeky)
January 2013
63 posts
“Sometimes your joy is the source of your smile, but sometimes your smile can be...”
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via kari-shma)
“I love your orange laughter. I am moved by the sight of you sleeping.”
– Pablo Neruda (via loveyourchaos)
49 Random Psychology Facts
psych-quotes:
Based on the total number of people tested since IQ tests were devised, women have a slightly higher average IQ than men.
Your body is virtually paralyzed during your sleep – most likely to prevent your body from acting out aspects of your dreams.
All the faces in your dream are of people you have saw throughout your life.
If a guy stands with his legs apart while with a...
