February 2012
“Some things, whether it’s books or people or music or movies may disappoint you,...”
– {l’ho provato sulla mia pelle}:
=)
“It’s a sad day when you find out that it’s not accident or time or fortune, but...”
– Lillian Hellman (via funeral)
WatchThe happiness advantage. =)
Yes, you are →
“She doesn’t really eat.” “Why aren’t you eating more?” “Guys like (thin) girls who eat.” Such short, innocuously-sounding statements that are actually loaded with judgment not just about one’s lifestyle, personality, and appearance, but also about one’s ability to be a successful Columbia student. These statements are embedded within the idea that one should indulge—live life to the fullest and...
January 2012
“And it is this, I think, that makes Kafka’s wit inaccessible to children whom...”
– David Foster Wallace (via fuckyeahexistentialism)
“Yes. It could happen any time, tornado, earthquake, Armageddon. It could happen....”
– William Stafford (with thanks to risky wiver)
“The birds have vanished into the sky,
and now the last cloud drains away.
We...”
– Li Po, translated by Sam Hamill (with thanks to journalofanobody)
“Any reasonably self-introspective person is going to change in their twenties....”
– T
forever my hero.
John Steinbeck on Falling in Love: A 1958 Letter →
And don’t worry about losing. If it is right, it happens – The main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.
“Here is what awaits you out in the world: the stands-too-close monsters behind...”
– Girls And Staying In | Kate Carraway for Vice
THIS.
“Now and then it’s good to pause in our pursuit of happiness and just be happy.”
– Guillaume Apollinaire (via misswallflower)
“So in the thirties, it’s the time, the peak time, for you to learn and...”
– Tadao Ando
“Even on my own projects, I feel a little bit I may change because of my...”
– Kazuyo Sejima
“I hope that in this year to come, you make mistakes.
Because if you are making...”
– Neil Gaiman (via drinkyourjuice)
On Certain Decisions
I do not owe you an explanation of why I took a leave of absence this past semester. Anyone in my life who deserved an explanation was given one early on, or something as close to an explanation as I could emotionally/mentally afford to give at the time. I did not consult my friends. I did not ask my parents for permission. Taking the semester off was never a decision made by anyone.
It was a...
moledro
dictionaryofobscuresorrows:
n. a feeling of resonant connection with an author or artist you’ll never meet, who may have lived centuries ago and thousands of miles away but can still get inside your head and leave behind morsels of their experience, like the little piles of stones left by hikers that mark a hidden path through unfamiliar territory.
Watchthis trailer gives me goosebumps
