January 2011
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So avoid using the word ‘very’ because it’s lazy. A man is not very tired, he is...
– John Keating, Dead Poet’s Society (via poufferderire)
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I can't flip the pages fast enough
It’s like that feeling when you’re so hungry you don’t even pause to taste. So good that you want it all now. I willed myself to take a tumblr break so I could savor this book a little. I’m stopping myself because I know when I finish that I will hate to have just sped from cover to cover.
So fittingly named, too! Captivating.
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Dust to dust. Ashes to ashes. The grim poetry of existence. But life is more...
– Stephen James- The Bishop (via quote-book)
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Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are...
– Marianne Williamson
— my favorite poem
(via curriculavitae)
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I had jumped off the edge, and then, at the very last moment, something reached...
– Moon Palace, Paul Auster (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
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One Art
The art of losing isn't hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the intent
to be lost that their loss is no disaster.
Lose something every day. Accept the fluster
of lost door keys, the hour badly spent.
The art of losing isn't hard to master.
Then practice losing farther, losing faster:
places, and names, and where it was you meant
to travel. None of these will bring disaster.
I lost...
you know what's fun?
jumping in newly laundered clothes. MMMMMM<3
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Gonna have to grin and bear it
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”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think....
– A.A. Milne (via quote-book)
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You are holy, great and mighty. The moon and stars declare who You are....
– Cannons, Phil Wickham
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elicec asked: Who's the best cat in the United States?
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What do you fear, lady”? he asked. “A cage,” she said. “To stay behind bars,...
– The Two Towers, J.R.R. Tolkien (via quote-book)
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You’re never fully dressed without a smile.
– Annie
tumblrbot asked: WHAT IS YOUR EARLIEST HUMAN MEMORY?
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