17 6 / 2013
"I long to accomplish a great and noble task, but it is my chief duty to accomplish small tasks as if they were great and noble."
11 6 / 2013
"We have the strange idea, unsupported by any evidence, that we are loved and admired only for our superb strength, our far-reaching powers, and our all-knowing competency. Yet in the real world, no matter how many relationships may have been initiated by strength and power, no marriage or friendship has ever been deepened by these qualities…real intimacy is based on mutual vulnerability."
09 6 / 2013
"Be yourself. You’re okay."
(Source: bodyfluids, via mariathne)
22 5 / 2013
Best thing I've read all week. Somewhere, a unicorn is smirking.
*Nothing pisses me off more than people romanticizing the Great Gatsby quote
“I hope she’ll be a fool—that’s the best thing a girl can be in this world, a beautiful little fool.” Oh, great! Love seeing this picture over Instagram photos of lipstick and flowers and shit. Daisy Buchanan was a flowery weed in flapper sequins. The best thing a girl can be in the modern world (where some psycho bazillonaire with great hair and an anger problem isn’t pining after her like a golden fucking ice cream cone) is a tough warrior. A smart cookie. An empathizer, a pirate, a time-traveler, a sweet nurturer, a rebel, a hard worker, a UNICORN. Not a fucking fool who is totes pretty.
Great book, though!
*currently. Yesterday nothing pissed me off more than the 6 train
22 5 / 2013
"Long you live and high you’ll fly, and smiles you’ll give, tears you’ll cry and all you touch and all you see is all your life will ever be"
20 5 / 2013
Be kind.
Be surprising.
Be better than you were yesterday.
Be what you expect of yourself, not what anyone else expects of you.
Be active.
Be proactive.
Be supportive.
Be attentive.
Be strong when you can,
Be compassionate when you can’t.
Be helpful.
Be a friend.
Be faithful.
Be the first one awake, or
Be the last one awake, just
Be awake.
Be good to those who’ve been good to you
Be forgiving to those who haven’t.
Be honest.
Be great, but start with being kind.
20 5 / 2013
so you want to be a [insert profession here]
if it doesn’t come bursting out of you
in spite of everything,
don’t do it.
unless it comes unasked out of your
heart and your mind and your mouth
and your gut,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit for hours
staring at your computer screen
or hunched over your
typewriter
searching for words,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it for money or
fame,
don’t do it.
if you’re doing it because you want
women in your bed,
don’t do it.
if you have to sit there and
rewrite it again and again,
don’t do it.
if it’s hard work just thinking about doing it,
don’t do it.
if you’re trying to write like somebody
else,
forget about it.
if you have to wait for it to roar out of
you,
then wait patiently.
if it never does roar out of you,
do something else.
if you first have to read it to your wife
or your girlfriend or your boyfriend
or your parents or to anybody at all,
you’re not ready.
don’t be like so many writers,
don’t be like so many thousands of
people who call themselves writers,
don’t be dull and boring and
pretentious, don’t be consumed with self-
love.
the libraries of the world have
yawned themselves to
sleep
over your kind.
don’t add to that.
don’t do it.
unless it comes out of
your soul like a rocket,
unless being still would
drive you to madness or
suicide or murder,
don’t do it.
unless the sun inside you is
burning your gut,
don’t do it.
when it is truly time,
and if you have been chosen,
it will do it by
itself and it will keep on doing it
until you die or it dies in you.
there is no other way.
and there never was.
16 5 / 2013
"Maybe you have to believe in the value of everything to believe in the value of anything."
