January 2011
93 posts
love is not eternal
all these little phases and events and people in your life are like little bursts of fireworks.. the more fireworks you have, the better the show
http://www.buzzfeed.com/akdobbins/the-marshmallow-test
delayed gratification
higher life satisfaction and IQ
Pull A String, A Puppet Moves
each man must realize that it can all disappear very quickly: the cat, the woman, the job, the front tire the bed, the walls, the room; all our necessities including love, rest on foundations of sand - and any given cause, no matter how unrelated: the death of a boy in Hong Kong or a blizzard in Omaha … can serve as your undoing. all your chinaware crashing to the kitchen floor, your girl...
lately i’ve been either leaving my house at 3pm or sitting at this computer at 3pm, and i’ve been watching the OAS kids walk home from school and/or get picked up by parents.. what the fuck happened to us since then? it’s really strange seeing kids so careless and loud and falling in the snow, racing home to mommy to eat snacks. as confining as elementary school was, i find...
"If she's amazing, she won't be easy. If she's...
rigatoni!
That moment when you go to the bathroom by...
“but I finally realized that if someone isn’t fully committed to you, they’re really just trying to leave without knowing how. You deserve to be with someone who whole-heartedly wants to be with you, because sometimes a person can love you but not be right for you.”
people don’t understand that it’s not that i don’t get along with her, or that she’s not my friend.. it’s that she barely exists. i can’t relate to her in basic human ways. i can’t talk to her about anything real. she doesn’t feel anything because of the way she dealt (or didn’t deal) with her past. she is absent mentally and emotionally even...
hannah i looked up that interview
In your poetry you write openly about the need for a mother.
Which is very, very strong. I’m a little ashamed of it, too, because it does open a weakness, but I’ve met a lot of people and I have friends who, if they’ve lost their father or lost their mother, they also have a need for that parent.
Read more:...
ha. i’ve always been one of those kids who presses super hard on their pencils. since im working with colored pencils now, i need to practice not
We don’t see things as they are, we see them as we are.
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)
That’s the thing about the Earth: It doesn’t stop to acknowledge the daily...
– The Highest Tide by Jim Lynch (via quote-book)
"to never forget your own significance"
working on it
hannah-
i’m in cranford for the next 2 weeks
http://www.noh8campaign.com/
i mean yeah this is great but i really don’t understand why every photo on the main page has naked women or giant tits hanging out. it’s a joke. our society is a fucking joke
The only reality I can possibly know is the world as I perceive it at this...
– Carl Rogers (via ajcc)
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