January 2012
17 posts
Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of...
– Gloria Steinem (via kari-shma)
misswallflower:
“With all its sham, drudgery, and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world. Be cheerful. Strive to be happy.”
― Max Ehrmann
The Joy of Quiet. →
December 2011
25 posts
May your coming year be filled with magic and dreams and good madness. I hope...
– Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahhappy)
One day, in retrospect, the years of struggle will strike you as the most...
– Sigmund Freud (via ppoison)
It doesn’t matter how tough we are. Trauma always leaves a scar. It follows us...
– Alex Karev, Grey’s Anatomy (via kari-shma)
Fajr.
My mother has this habit of going off at me while I’m groggy in the mornings, such that I slip in and out of focus of what she’s actually saying—a fact which I’m sure she is aware of—but maybe it’s one of those instances where you don’t really care if the other party is listening, it’s just for the sake of getting it out of your system.
While she...
November 2011
33 posts
When I ask my students at the beginning of my Men and Masculinity course about...
– (via hugoschwyzer)(via apiphile)
Gratitude, like faith, is a muscle. The more you use it, the stronger it grows,...
– Alan Cohen (via justbesplendid)
I’ve always had an urge to try to hold on to places and documents and buildings....
–
Nicholson Baker (interview in The Paris Review No. 198, Fall 2011)