December 2011
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“And all shall be well and
All manner of thing shall be well
By the...”
– TS Eliot, Four Quartets
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“For last year’s words belong to last year’s language and next year’s words await...”
– T.S. Eliot (via freudmytiger)
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2012, please be kind.
“Let us not underestimate how hard it is to be compassionate. Compassion is hard...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen (via creatingaquietmind)
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Currently re-watching Deathly Hallows: Part 2 and...
I HAVE SO MANY FEELINGS AND THEY ARE ALL COMING OUT OF MY EYEBALLS.
“Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try again. Fail again. Fail better.”
– Samuel_Beckett (via tj)
This is one for 2012.
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One of my very favorites!
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“Everything is more beautiful
because we’re doomed.
You will never be lovelier...”
– Homer, The Iliad [tr. Robert Fagles] (via emmaforeverago)
THAT IS NOT FROM THE ILIAD. IT’S FROM TROY.
Anonymous asked: number one
Why not?
1. What is your best friends name?
2. What color underwear/boxers wearing now?
3. What are you listening to right now?
4. Whats your favorite number?
5. What was the last thing you ate?
6. If you were a crayon what color would you be?
7. How is the weather right now?
8. Who was the last person you talked 2 on the phone?
9. The first thing you notice about the opposite sex?
10. Do you have a significant other?
11. Favorite TV show?
12. Siblings?
13. Height?
14. Hair color?
15. Eye Color?
16. Do you wear contacts?
17. Favorite Holiday?
18. Month?
19. Have you ever cried for no reason?
20. What was the last movie you watched?
21. Favorite Day of the Year?
22. Are you too shy to ask someone out?
23. Can you do a headstand (not using the wall)?
24. Hugs or Kisses?
25. Chocolate or Vanilla?
26. Do you want your friends to respond to this?
27. Who is most likely to respond to a text from you?
28. Who is least likely to respond to a text from you?
29. What books are you reading?
30. Piercings?
31. Favorite movies?
32. Favorite football Team?
33. What are you doing right now?
34. Butter, Plain or Salted popcorn?
37. Dogs or cats?
38. Favorite flower?
39. Been caught doing something you weren't supposed to do?
40. Do you have a best friend of the opposite sex?
41. Have you ever loved someone?
42. Who would you like to see right now?
43. Are you still friends with people from kindergarten?
44. Have you ever fired a gun?
45. Do you like to travel by plane?
46. Right-handed or Left-handed?
47. How many pillows do you sleep with?
48. Are you missing someone?
49. Do you have a tattoo?
50. Anybody on Tumblr that you'd go on a date with?
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What an utterly perfect night.
Chomsky to Occupy: move to the next stage →
Noam Chomsky has advice for the Occupy movement, whose encampments all over the country are being swept away by police. The occupations were a “brilliant” idea, he says, but now it’s time to “move on to the next stage” in tactics. He suggests political organizing in the neighborhoods.
The Occupy camps have shown people how “to break out of this conception that we’re isolated.” But “just...
“I missed you even when I was with you. That’s been my problem. I miss what I...”
– Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (via bearforartemis)
“I tried the key in all the doors, even though he said he didn’t recognize it....”
– Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Jonathan Safran Foer (via creatingaquietmind, hourglasss) (via teachingliteracy)
Rasika. I know you're alive because I see you on... →
Hahahahhaah I JUST SAW THIS. And I’m talking to you right now.
“My heart was a hysterical, unreliable organ.”
– Vladimir Nabokov (via dormio)
