“
God goes belonging to every riven thing. He’s made
the things that bring him near,
made the mind that makes him go.
A part of what man knows,
apart from what man knows,
God goes belonging to every riven thing he’s made.
”— Christian Wiman
“It appeared that nobody ever said a thing they meant, or ever talked of a feeling they felt.” • Virginia Woolf
“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.” • Nelson Mandela
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“I am fundamentally an optimist. Whether that comes from nature or nurture, I cannot say. Part of being optimistic is keeping one’s head pointed toward the sun, one’s feet moving forward. There were many dark moments when my faith in humanity was sorely tested, but I would not and could not give myself up to despair. That way lay defeat and death.” • Nelson Mandela
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A semicolon is used when a sentence could’ve ended, but it didn’t..
I fracking love this.
(via doses-of-inspiration)
“Don’t do impressions of other races.” - Angie Jordan (portrayed by Sherri Shepherd) from 30 Rock
Seems so simple, and yet…
some people need this to be explained repeatedly and even still..
(via theblasianinvasion)
“I wish I wrote the way I thought
Obsessively
Incessantly
With maddening hunger
I’d write to the point of suffocation
I’d write myself into nervous breakdowns
Manuscripts spiralling out like tentacles into abysmal nothing
And I’d write about you
a lot more
than I should”
— Benedict Smith, I Wish I Wrote The Way I Thought” (via seols)
(Source: benedictsmith, via venusoverthemoon)
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Do you always give in, or let other people choose, or hide what you think, or never ask to have your way? Perhaps you fear disapproval or disappointing others, and the last thing you want is to make somebody mad. If this profile describes you then you may be a people pleaser … and maybe it is…
“We wear clothes, and speak, and create civilizations, and believe we are more than wolves. But inside us there is a word we cannot pronounce and that is who we are.”
— Anthony Marra, A Constellation of Vital Phenomena (via larmoyante)
“Since my earliest childhood a barb of sorrow has lodged in my heart. As long as it stays I am ironic — if it is pulled out I shall die.”
— Søren Kierkegaard, from Journals (via violentwavesofemotion)
(via arrowsofsensation)
“
So you attempt to hide your loneliness in public, to behave, in fact, as though you have too many friends already, and thus you hope to attract people who will unwittingly save you. But it never works that way. Your condition is written all over your face, in the hunch of your shoulders, in the hollowness of your laugh. You fool no one.
Believe me in this; I’ve tried all the tricks of the lonely man.
”— David Marusek (via larmoyante)
“I am inside someone
who hates me.”
— Amiri Baraka, “An Agony. As Now.” (via raspberrying)
(Source: larmoyante, via cloudedseas)
