Wisdom of Stardust

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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 12:00:48 -0500

"I do not know which to prefer, The beauty of inflections Or the beauty of innuendoes, The blackbird..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:40:23 -0500

“I do not know which to prefer,
The beauty of inflections
Or the beauty of innuendoes,
The blackbird whistling
Or just after.”

- From “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” - Wallace Stevens (via wingedescape)

"A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion,..."

Tue, 18 Dec 2012 10:01:57 -0500

“A human being is a being who is constantly ‘under construction,’ but also, in a parallel fashion, always in a state of constant destruction.”

- Jose Saramago (via quote-book)

"May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 18:40:22 -0500

“May there be kindness in your gaze when you look within.”

- John O’Donohue (via nirvikalpa)

"I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do..."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 17:20:18 -0500

“I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that.”

- Lorrie Morre, Anagrams (via helplesslyamazed)

"Word of advice: wear what you want… just learn how to run real fast."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 16:01:07 -0500

“Word of advice: wear what you want… just learn how to run real fast.”

- Marc, Ugly Betty (via notgivingupjustyet)

"When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it..."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 14:40:09 -0500

“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we often find that it is those who, instead of giving advice, solutions, or cures, have chosen rather to share our pain and touch our wounds with a warm and tender hand. The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing, not curing, not healing and face with us the reality of our powerlessness, that is a friend who cares.”

- Henri J.M. Nouwen (via kari-shma)

"That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 13:20:16 -0500

“That’s who you really like. The people you can think out loud in front of.”

- John Green (via h-o-r-n-g-r-y)

"A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 12:02:24 -0500

“A purpose of human life, no matter who is controlling it, is to love whoever is around to be loved.”

- Kurt Vonnegut (via girlwithoutwings)

"Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn...."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 10:40:30 -0500

“Because in the end, you won’t remember the time you spent working in the office or mowing your lawn. Climb that god-damn mountain.”

- ~ Jack Kerouac (via saddest-summer)

"Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere."

Mon, 17 Dec 2012 09:20:26 -0500

“Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.”

- Albert Einstein (via mitralvalves)

"The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 18:40:32 -0500

“The stories we sit up late to hear are love stories. It seems that we cannot know enough about this riddle of our lives. We go back and back to the same scenes, the same words, trying to scrape out the meaning. Nothing else could be more familiar than love. Nothing could elude us so completely.”

- Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (via helplesslyamazed)

"In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 17:20:28 -0500

“In this world, there are things you can only do alone, and things you can only do with somebody else. It’s important to combine the two in just the right amount.”

- Haruki Murakami, After Dark (via rainier)

"It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 16:00:57 -0500

“It never gets easier, missing you. And sometimes I wonder if it ever will.”

- Heather Brewer (via kari-shma)

"Sometimes we don’t know our own strength. It can be hard to tell just how much weight you can safely..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 14:40:24 -0500

“Sometimes we don’t know our own strength. It can be hard to tell just how much weight you can safely bear, or how much will crush you. I’d like to think you can shoulder as big a burden as you believe you can, that it’s all a matter of will. Certainly a comforting thought…Other times it’s hard to remember you had any strength at all. Then you can only hope to have someone to remind you you were once fierce and able.”

- Everwood (via schwenkkkk)

"The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 13:20:26 -0500

“The only people I would care to be with now are artists and people who have suffered: those who know what beauty is, and those who know what sorrow is: nobody else interests me.”

- Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)

"I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 12:00:48 -0500

“I am love, I am music, she thinks. Let’s dance.”

- Maria, Eleven Minutes, Paulo Coelho (via nubivagantmusings)

"‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 10:40:22 -0500

“‘For a while’ is a phrase whose length can’t be measured. At least by the person who’s waiting.”

- Haruki Murakami, South of the Border, West of the Sun (via helplesslyamazed)

"Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do..."

Sun, 16 Dec 2012 09:20:29 -0500

“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are bound to do something else. Something hurts you, yet you know it shouldn’t. You take certain things for granted, even when you know you should never take anything for granted. A tension of opposites, like a pull on a rubber band. And most of us live somewhere in the middle.”

- Mitch Albom (Tuesdays with Morrie)