"If life gives you a home,don’t be a child and run from warmth.
Learn to fall in love again.
Accept that the season is right and the
hand is open
and you will one day forget what a fist is.
If he wants to carry you
forget how much your last lover
told you your heart weighs.
Forget that he wrapped his body around yours likes chains.
Forget that you ever knew what goodbye was."
2. okt. 2013
F. Scott Fitzgerald
“And in the end, we were all just humans.. drunk on the idea that love, only love, could heal our brokenness.”
Sutphen
“Love me without fear. Trust me without questioning. Need me without demanding. Want me without restrictions. Accept me without change. Desire me without inhibitions. For a love so free … will never fly away.”
17. jun. 2013
Dale Carnegie
“Be more concerned with your character than with your reputation. Your character is what you really are while your reputation is merely what others think you are.”
Elizabeth Taylor
“You just do it. You force yourself to get up. You force yourself to put one foot before the other, and God damn it, you refuse to let it get to you. You fight. You cry. You curse. Then you go about the business of living. That’s how I’ve done it. There’s no other way.”
Unknown
“Men det gør ondt at tænke. Hvad godt har det nogensinde gjort mig at tænke? Hvilke store steder har det ført mig hen? Jeg tænker og tænker og tænker! Jeg har tænkt mig selv ulykkelig en million gange, men jeg har ikke en eneste gang, haft held til at tænke mig lykkelig.”
Charles Bukowski
“Nobody can save you but yourself — and you’re worth saving. It’s a war not easily won but if anything is worth winning — this is it.”
Unknown
"how to fill the spaces where love used to live
part three:
switch your perfume for something
cleaner, that doesn’t remind you
of his sex and skin.
wade into rivers.
make promises to the current.
sit down with your mother,
call her “Mom”
-let her cover your hand with hers,
drink the coffee she makes you,
even if she doesn’t always make it right.
accept the fact that sometimes,
your chest is going to ache
and you’ll attribute it to the weather,
and how your sheets are always cold-
remember that in the middle of the night,
you overheat and that gives you nightmares.
drink more water, because you always tell yourself
to anyways. tell yourself that it will fix everything.
don’t be sad when it doesn’t."
part three:
switch your perfume for something
cleaner, that doesn’t remind you
of his sex and skin.
wade into rivers.
make promises to the current.
sit down with your mother,
call her “Mom”
-let her cover your hand with hers,
drink the coffee she makes you,
even if she doesn’t always make it right.
accept the fact that sometimes,
your chest is going to ache
and you’ll attribute it to the weather,
and how your sheets are always cold-
remember that in the middle of the night,
you overheat and that gives you nightmares.
drink more water, because you always tell yourself
to anyways. tell yourself that it will fix everything.
don’t be sad when it doesn’t."
Mignon McLaughlin
“In the arithmetic of love, one plus one equals everything, and two minus one equals nothing.”
Thomas Edison
“Many of life’s failures are experienced by people who did not realize how close they were to success when they gave up.”
The Time Traveler’s Wife
“Don’t you think it’s better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?”
Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy.”
Unknown
“I fall in love with people’s passion. The way their eyes light up when they talk about the thing they love and the way they fill with light.”
11. jun. 2013
Terry Goodkind
“Sometimes, making the wrong choice is better than making no choice. You have the courage to go forward, that is rare. A person who stands at the fork, unable to pick, will never get anywhere.”
Unknown
“Don’t talk to me because you’re bored, I’m not here to entertain you. And don’t come to me only when you need a favor, I don’t like being used.”
Donna-Marie Riley
“Nothing is quite as sincere as someone who loves you desperately when you don’t love them at all.”
Azar Nafisi: Reading Lolita in Tehran
“You get a strange feeling when you’re about to leave a place, I told him, like you’ll not only miss the people you love but you’ll miss the person you are now at this time and this place, because you’ll never be this way ever again.”
Kristian Leth: "Hvad er pointen?", Information
"(...) Vi mennesker ’tror’, selv når vi er ateister. At ’tro’ på en mening med verden er hele grundlaget for det dyrs eksistens, der ikke er drevet af drift og instinkt.
I dag vil man se det som en svaghed. Det er den barnlige trang til sammenhæng, der har foranlediget de største historier, dem, der former hele kulturer; myterne, religionerne. Det er denne ’magiske tænkning,’ som psykologerne kalder det, der gør, at børn ser det som en selvfølge, at verden hænger sammen. Og den vil vi ikke ligge under for.
Den britiske forsker og psykolog Eugene Subbotsky har i en ny bog, Magic and the Mind, beskrevet, hvordan den magiske tænkning ikke er noget, vi ’vokser fra’, som vi ellers har for vane at tro. Det er en måde at forstå verden på, som de fleste andre kulturer end vores bibeholder langt op i det voksne liv. Subbotsky viser ved kliniske forsøg, hvordan vi i vores samfund gør, hvad vi kan, for at udradere den gennem en reel indoktrinering, en programmering, en aflæring.
Problemet er bare, at vi ikke har fået udraderet den totalt. Vi har stadig brug for den store fortælling."
I dag vil man se det som en svaghed. Det er den barnlige trang til sammenhæng, der har foranlediget de største historier, dem, der former hele kulturer; myterne, religionerne. Det er denne ’magiske tænkning,’ som psykologerne kalder det, der gør, at børn ser det som en selvfølge, at verden hænger sammen. Og den vil vi ikke ligge under for.
Den britiske forsker og psykolog Eugene Subbotsky har i en ny bog, Magic and the Mind, beskrevet, hvordan den magiske tænkning ikke er noget, vi ’vokser fra’, som vi ellers har for vane at tro. Det er en måde at forstå verden på, som de fleste andre kulturer end vores bibeholder langt op i det voksne liv. Subbotsky viser ved kliniske forsøg, hvordan vi i vores samfund gør, hvad vi kan, for at udradere den gennem en reel indoktrinering, en programmering, en aflæring.
Problemet er bare, at vi ikke har fået udraderet den totalt. Vi har stadig brug for den store fortælling."
10. jun. 2013
Eleanor Longden
"The relevant question in psychiatry shouldn't be what's wrong with you, but what happened to you?"
Rita Mae Brown
“About all you can do in life is be who you are. Some people will love you for you. Most will love you for what you can do for them. And some won’t like you at all.”
Franz Kafka
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your own soul according to the fashion. Rather, follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.”
Alan Wilson Watts
“Advice? I don’t have advice. Stop aspiring and start writing. If you’re writing, you’re a writer. Write like you’re a goddamn death row inmate and the governor is out of the country and there’s no chance for a pardon. Write like you’re clinging to the edge of a cliff, white knuckles, on your last breath, and you’ve got just one last thing to say, like you’re a bird flying over us and you can see everything, and please, for God’s sake, tell us something that will save us from ourselves. Take a deep breath and tell us your deepest, darkest secret, so we can wipe our brow and know that we’re not alone. Write like you have a message from the king. Or don’t. Who knows, maybe you’re one of the lucky ones who doesn’t have to.”
7. jun. 2013
Chelsea Fagan: How We Let People Go
“Of course, you never really forget anyone, but you certainly release them. You stop allowing their history to have any meaning for you today. You let them change their haircut, let them move, let them fall in love again. And when you see this person you have let go, you realize that there is no reason to be sad. The person you knew exists somewhere, but you are separated by too much time to reach them again.”
Pat Conroy: The Prince of Tides
“You get a little moody sometimes but I think that’s because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.”
6. jun. 2013
Aaron Freeman
"You want a physicist to speak at your funeral. You want the physicist to talk to your grieving family about the conservation of energy, so they will understand that your energy has not died. You want the physicist to remind your sobbing mother about the first law of thermodynamics; that no energy gets created in the universe, and none is destroyed."
Anne Sofie Nørskov
"Hun sagde, at søndag var den dag, hun følte sig allermest alene og fortabt, dengang hun boede i udlandet.
Søndag, langt væk hjemmefra. Det er den slags søndag."
Søndag, langt væk hjemmefra. Det er den slags søndag."
Norman Vincent Peale
“The trouble with most of us is that we would rather be ruined by praise than saved by criticism.”
F. Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
“I wasn’t actually in love, but I felt a sort of tender curiosity.”
Joshua J. Marine
“Challenges are what make life interesting; overcoming them is what makes life meaningful.”
Stephanie Georgopulus
“Miss someone until they come back, or until you come back, until their absence in your life becomes something to be avoided at all costs. Miss them until you don’t have to anymore, until you’re reunited in your favorite booth in your favorite restaurant ordering your favorite meal, miss them until it feels like you never left. Or miss them until you can’t anymore, until the things you miss are identified and cataloged as things and not a person, until you figure out that easy company and long talks and unblinking, all-knowing eye contact will find you again the way they found you the first time. Miss someone until you don’t.”
Winston Churchill
"Courage is what it takes to stand up and speak. Courage is also what it takes to sit down and listen."
15. apr. 2013
14. apr. 2013
Le Love
"Without any excuses, I let it fail. It was a period of depression that hit me like a midnight train out of nowhere. He knew, and he did nothing but show me that he was going to be there for me no matter what happened. It seemed like all too much to handle, and I left. I was so scared, and I don’t know of what. I knew I was petrified though. Petrified of being in love maybe. Knots of guilt and anger build from my stomach to my throat and boil like scorching tar. It makes me sick, and it makes me cry. Every. Single. Day."
10. apr. 2013
Nicole Krauss: The History of Love
“2. WHAT I AM NOT
My brother and I used to play a game. I’d point to a chair. “THIS IS NOT A CHAIR,” I’d say. Bird would point to the table. “THIS IS NOT A TABLE.” “THIS IS NOT A WALL,” I’d say. “THAT IS NOT A CEILING.” We’d go on like that. “IT IS NOT RAINING OUT.” “MY SHOE IS NOT UNTIED!” Bird would yell. I’d point to my elbow. “THIS IS NOT A SCRAPE.” Bird would lift his knee. “THIS IS ALSO NOT A SCRAPE!” “THAT IS NOT A KETTLE!” “NOT A CUP!” “NOT A SPOON!” “NOT DIRTY DISHES!” We denied whole rooms, years, weathers. Once, at the peak of our shouting, Bird took a deep breath. At the top of his lungs, he shrieked: “I! HAVE NOT! BEEN! UNHAPPY! MY WHOLE! LIFE!” “But you’re only seven,” I said.”
My brother and I used to play a game. I’d point to a chair. “THIS IS NOT A CHAIR,” I’d say. Bird would point to the table. “THIS IS NOT A TABLE.” “THIS IS NOT A WALL,” I’d say. “THAT IS NOT A CEILING.” We’d go on like that. “IT IS NOT RAINING OUT.” “MY SHOE IS NOT UNTIED!” Bird would yell. I’d point to my elbow. “THIS IS NOT A SCRAPE.” Bird would lift his knee. “THIS IS ALSO NOT A SCRAPE!” “THAT IS NOT A KETTLE!” “NOT A CUP!” “NOT A SPOON!” “NOT DIRTY DISHES!” We denied whole rooms, years, weathers. Once, at the peak of our shouting, Bird took a deep breath. At the top of his lungs, he shrieked: “I! HAVE NOT! BEEN! UNHAPPY! MY WHOLE! LIFE!” “But you’re only seven,” I said.”
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