30. okt. 2011
28. okt. 2011
John Lennon
“I believe in everything until it’s disproved. So I believe in fairies, the myths, dragons. It all exists, even if it’s in your mind. Who’s to say that dreams and nightmares aren’t as real as the here and now?”
24. okt. 2011
Maya Angelou
“I don’t know if I continue, even today, always liking myself. But what I learned to do many years ago was to forgive myself. It is very important for every human being to forgive herself or himself because if you live, you will make mistakes- it is inevitable. But once you do and you see the mistake, then you forgive yourself and say, ‘Well, if I’d known better I’d have done better,’ that’s all. So you say to people who you think you may have injured, ‘I’m sorry,’ and then you say to yourself, ‘I’m sorry.’ If we all hold on to the mistake, we can’t see our own glory in the mirror because we have the mistake between our faces and the mirror; we can’t see what we’re capable of being. You can ask forgiveness of others, but in the end the real forgiveness is in one’s own self. I think that young men and women are so caught by the way they see themselves. Now mind you. When a larger society sees them as unattractive, as threats, as too black or too white or too poor or too fat or too thin or too sexual or too asexual, that’s rough. But you can overcome that. The real difficulty is to overcome how you think about yourself. If we don’t have that we never grow, we never learn, and sure as hell we should never teach.”
Karma is only a bitch when you are
"He’s a terrible kisser, doesn’t know how to handle a girl who’s actually interested in him. He says ‘oh’ each time I kiss him, as if it comes as a huge surprise. But the kid reads poetry and listens to Bon Iver and Fleet Foxes. And he read a book I recommended. People don’t read the things I talk about. That’s got to count for something. We are going on adventures, climbing mountains, smoking cigarettes and thinking. Talking about, how school doesn’t teach you anything important. You never learn how to tell someone you love them. Or how to tell them you don’t. And when I left, I had this strange feeling in my chest. I felt like this was the first and the last time this was ever going to happen. Maybe that’s okay."
Sylvia Plath: The Bell Jar
“The floor seemed wonderfully solid. It was comforting to know I had fallen and could fall no farther.”
Chuck Klosterman
“I wanted to write about people who were depressed, but not depressed for any kind of specific cataclysmic reason. I mean the high-school kid is kind of abstractly depressed, which I think is what a lot of people feel like. It’s not like they have anything bad about their lives. And if you were to ask them if they were depressed, they’d probably say no.”
12. okt. 2011
11. okt. 2011
John Irving
“When someone you love dies, and you’re not expecting it, you don’t lose her all at once; you lose her in pieces over a long time — the way the mail stops coming, and her scent fades from the pillows and even from the clothes in her closet and drawers. Gradually, you accumulate the parts of her that are gone. Just when the day comes — when there’s a particular missing part that overwhelms you with the feeling that she’s gone, forever — there comes another day, and another specifically missing part.”
Jane Austen
“There are few people whom I really love, and still fewer of whom I think well. The more I see of the world, the more am I dissatisfied with it; and every day confirms my belief of the inconsistency of all human characters, and of the little dependence that can be placed on the appearance of merit or sense.”
Kate Morton
“It is a cruel, ironical art, photography. The dragging of captured moments into the future; moments that should have been allowed to be evaporate into the past; should exist only in memories, glimpsed through the fog of events that came after. Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down…”
Charles Bukowski
“I will remember the kisses, our lips raw with love,
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”
and how you gave me everything you had
and how I offered you what was left of me.”
Unknown
"I believe in soul mates, but I don’t believe that everyone has one, or that everyone will find their soul mate, even if that person existed in the same historical era. I think it is possible for your soul mate to exist before or after you, and for you to find them through a book or a poem or a song."
7. okt. 2011
Hunter S. Thompson
“Sleep late, have fun, get wild, drink whiskey and drive fast on empty streets with nothing in mind except falling in love and not getting arrested.”
1. okt. 2011
Hunter S. Thompson
“I wouldn’t recommend sex, drugs or insanity for everyone, but they’ve always worked for me.”
Clay Shirky
"Creating something personal, even of moderate quality, has a different kind of appeal than consuming something made by others, even of high quality."
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