It Comes With the Hair

"This being human is a guest house. Every morning a new arrival. A joy, a depression, a..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 18:50:15 -0500

“This being human is a guest house.
Every morning a new arrival.

A joy, a depression, a meanness,
some momentary awareness comes
as an unexpected visitor.

Welcome and entertain them all!
Even if they are a crowd of sorrows,
who violently sweep your house
empty of its furniture,
still, treat each guest honorably.
He may be clearing you out
for some new delight.

The dark thought, the shame, the malice.
meet them at the door laughing and invite them in.

Be grateful for whatever comes.
because each has been sent
as a guide from beyond.”

- Rumi, “The Guest House” (via larmoyante)

catasters:

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:18:54 -0500

catasters:

"Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you..."

Mon, 17 Jun 2013 10:06:43 -0500

“Let someone love you just the way you are – as flawed as you might be, as unattractive as you sometimes feel, and as unaccomplished as you think you are. To believe that you must hide all the parts of you that are broken, out of fear that someone else is incapable of loving what is less than perfect, is to believe that sunlight is incapable of entering a broken window and illuminating a dark room.”

- Marc Hack (via fantasyparade)

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Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:15:32 -0500

"Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers..."

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:11:19 -0500

“Airports see more sincere kisses than wedding halls. The walls of hospitals have heard more prayers than the walls of churches.”

- Unknown (via finedineonmyvegangenitalia)

l-ettie: from the poem bipolar by writingsforwinter

Sun, 16 Jun 2013 16:10:06 -0500

l-ettie:

from the poem bipolar by writingsforwinter

"If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever."

Sun, 09 Jun 2013 19:17:01 -0500

“If I had a flower for every time I thought of you, I could walk in my garden forever.”

- Alfred Lord Tennyson (via soybones)

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Tue, 04 Jun 2013 23:33:58 -0500

"‘You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,’ he said. ‘I wish I could follow you.’"

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:43:49 -0500

“‘You disappear so completely into your head sometimes,’ he said. ‘I wish I could follow you.’”

- Cassandra Clare (via ladygrinning-soul)

"Think of how many people have sat next to you on a bus, train, whatever. Now think how many people..."

Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:43:14 -0500

“Think of how many people have sat next to you on a bus, train, whatever. Now think how many people have sat next to you on purpose with their fingers crossed in hope that you’ll talk to them. I’m sure somebody has. There’s plenty of times when somebody’s seen you and hoped that you spoke to them, but you never did because you don’t have the guts and neither do they. Don’t go around thinking nobody likes you and that you’re not loved. There’s been plenty of times when a stranger has spotted you and thought “Oh, they’re just my type” but haven’t had the courage or confidence to open their mouth and initiate a conversation. The funny thing is, neither have you.”

- (via thelovewhisperer)

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Mon, 03 Jun 2013 23:42:46 -0500

"We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska..."

Sun, 02 Jun 2013 23:27:29 -0500

“We are all going, I thought, and it applies to turtles and turtlenecks, Alaska the girl and Alaska the place, because nothing can last, not even the earth itself. The Buddha said that suffering was caused by desire, we’d learned, and that the cessation of desire meant the cessation of suffering. When you stopped wishing things wouldn’t fall apart, you’d stop suffering when they did.”

- Looking for Alaska by John Green

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Sat, 25 May 2013 00:19:21 -0500

"We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours."

Mon, 20 May 2013 23:43:08 -0500

“We are all searching for someone whose demons play well with ours.”

- Unknown (via dulcetdecember)

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Mon, 20 May 2013 11:25:37 -0500

"When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 22:12:25 -0500

“When people don’t express themselves, they die one piece at a time. You’d be shocked at how many adults are really dead inside - walking through their days with no idea who they are, just waiting for a heart attack or cancer or a Mack truck to come along and finish the job. It’s the saddest thing I know.”

- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

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Sun, 19 May 2013 01:11:55 -0500

"I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 01:06:02 -0500

“I know my head isn’t screwed on straight. I want to leave, transfer, warp myself to another galaxy. I want to confess everything, hand over the guilt and mistake and anger to someone else. There is a beast in my gut, I can hear it scraping away at the inside of my ribs. Even if I dump the memory, it will stay with me, staining me.”

- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

"The One Photo a Prisoner Wants to See"

Sat, 18 May 2013 02:11:58 -0500

http://www.thedailybeast.com/galleries/2013/05/06/tamms-prison-project-makes-prisoners-dreams-come-true-photos.html#endSlide

^ For the photo gallery

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/06/prisoners-at-tamms-supermax-prison-get-invited-to-request-a-photo-of-anything-in-the-world.html

^ For the article written

“Artists invited the inmates at Illinois’s Tamms supermax prison to request one image of anything in the world, real or imagined—and then they photographed it. See the powerful results.”

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Tue, 14 May 2013 12:29:19 -0500