May 2011
45 posts
Housing Shortage
I tried to live small. I took a narrow bed. I held my elbows to my sides. I tried to step carefully And to think softly And to breathe shallowly In my portion of air And to disturb no one. But see how I spread out and I cannot help it. I take to myself more and more, and I take nothing That I do not need, but my needs grow like weeds, All over and invading; I clutter this place With all the...
“My ambition is handicapped by laziness.”
– Charles Bukowski, Factotum (via misswallflower)
cute boy sitting @ my table @ starbucks, can't...
#finalsweekproblems
A dark unfathomed tide Of interminable pride - A mystery, and a dream, Should my early life seem; I say that dream was fraught With a wild and waking thought Of beings that have been, Which my spirit hath not seen, Had I let them pass me by, With a dreaming eye! Let none of earth inherit That vision of my spirit; Those thoughts I would control, As a spell upon his soul: For that bright hope at...
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension,...”
– Anaïs Nin (via misswallflower)
This is pretty much the opposite of Plato’s Form of Beauty, oh human nature…the thorn at the side of every Platonic mind…
“Whatever we had missed, we possessed together the precious, the incommunicable...”
– My Antonia, by Willa Cather (via the-final-sentence)
perfect ring →
This is lame, but I miss reading for fun.
collegeproblems:
#bookworm
ugh, is bad aura just radiating from me or something?????????<»M>M<?><>M<><JILdklasjsd;lakjl;sdkjga’;lskhdg;laskjdf;oaihgpordihgla;kngr;lkjasd;lkgjha
so i've been having all these angsty thoughts for...
don’t be so insecure
how about that. Way to cut through a future blog post bs to the heart of the matter
i just want to not love but be loved
it’s just so much easier to not be involved at all, they just disappoint you and are disappointed in you
“You are what you love — not what loves you.”
Things you've probably never thought about →
leeroyjenkins:
Not a single one of your ancestors has ever failed in getting laid (Most people on tumblr will probably break the chain)
If you are 80 years old, you have lived through over 1/3 of America’s history
At one point, you were the youngest person in the world.
If a woman who is an only child has all boys (or no children at all), they are ending a chain of women that has been going...
