January 2010
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"Wild Geese" by Mary Oliver
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees For a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about your despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees,...
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In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible...
– Albert Camus (via nihilnoetia) (via jjarichardson) (via ilikewhatyousay)
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The most wonderful of all things in life is the discovery of another human being...
– Sir Hugh Walpole (via lovemidori) (via free-wilderness)
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Thomas Edison’s last words were ‘It’s very beautiful over there’. I don’t know...
– John Green (Looking for Alaska)
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There is a wisdom that is woe; but there is a woe that is madness. And there is...
– Herman Melville, Moby Dick (via mmadeleine)
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For whatever we lose (like a you or a me),
It’s always our self we find in the...
– souvenirs from the backwater (via astragalus)
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“He who is outside his door has the hardest part of his journey behind him.” - Dutch Proverb
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I put my heart and my soul into my work, and have lost my mind in the process.
– Vincent van Gogh (via reluctantbuddha) (via septicsceptic) (via blankbook)
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We are as forlorn as children lost in the woods. When you stand in front of me...
– Franz Kafka (via unpunk) (via farthestwoods)
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I want to taste dark water and see crackling trees and wild winds.
– Egon Schiele (via verschrankung) (via blushing) (via youarebonbon) (via lavinialisettesoliman) (via blushing) (via deus-exmachina) (via rememo)