January 2012
55 posts
That evening, as I watched the sunset’s pinwheels of apricot and mauve slowly...
– Diane Ackerman (via floralnymph)
We get caught in the sign “person.” We separate humans from animals, trees, and...
– Thich Nhat Hanh (via cooljeweledmoon)
I felt like lying down by the side of the trail and remembering it all. The...
– Jack Kerouac
A man’s ethical behavior should be based effectually on sympathy, education, and...
– Albert Einstein
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You’re sad because you’re sad.
It’s psychic. It’s the age. It’s chemical.
Go...
– A Sad Child, Margaret Atwood (via floralnymph)
Your lungs fill & spread themselves,
wings of pink blood, and your bones...
– Flying Inside Your Own Body, Margaret Atwood (via floralnymph)
I shall not live; I am an odd girl and I shan’t be able to hold on to this life...
– Marie Duplessis, in a letter to Franz Liszt. (via strangerains)
The temple bell stops—
but the sound keeps coming
out of the flowers.
– Matsuo Basho (translated by Robert Bly)
My kids are starting to notice I’m a little different from the other dads. “Why...
– Tom Waits (via atomos)
A man receives only what he is ready to receive, whether physically or...
– Henry David Thoreau (via sweetlotus)
I cannot understand why my arm is not a lilac tree.
– Leonard Cohen (via thewildernessunderground)
Nothing makes people more neurotic than the expectation that they should be...
– The Economist
A society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they know they shall...
– Greek proverb (via mysticsoul)
You are an aperture through which the universe is looking at and exploring...
– Alan Watts (via elige)