December 2009
61 posts
“Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring...”
– Anais Nin (1903 - 1977)
“In the past we have had a light which flickered, in the present we have a light...”
– Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
have you ever read a book, like for example whilst sitting at the train station and trying hardly not to cry even though the lines break your heart right in this moment?
“If the book we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our...”
– Franz Kafka (1883 - 1924)
“Life is a series of pulls back and forth. You want to do one thing, but you are...”
– from: ‘Tuesdays at Morrie’ by Mitch Albom
p.s. the book wakes me.
“I took a deep breath and listened to the old bray of my heart: I am, I am, I am”
– Sylvia Plath
“If i had my life to live over, i’d dare to make more mistakes next time....”
– Nadine Stair
Bon Iver, ‘Re-Stacks’
“This is...
“We are vulnerable to fear only when we leave the present. If I drift into the...”
– Jan Phillips Source: God Is at Eye Level: Photography as a Healing Art, Page: 57
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
“I almost wish we were butterflies and liv’d but three summer...”
– John Keats
“A good friend is a connection to life - a tie to the past, a road to the future,...”
– Lois Wyse
“If you have a golf-ball-sized consciousness, when you read a book, you’ll...”
– David Lynch
“It is not down in any map; true places never are.”
– Herman Melville
“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also true that we are eternally...”
– Henry Miller
“In the depth of winter I finally learned that there within me lay an invincible...”
– Albert Camus
“In the summer I have this friend who I am closest to, and sometimes, in the...”
– Jacqueline Woodson
p.s.beautiful somehow, it makes me think of fragile relationships i had to other people that were unconstant and in the end didn’t last. well for some reason this is my interpretation i had whilst reading that quote. Spending a beautiful summer together for example and the...
“A soulmate is someone who has locks that fit our keys, and keys to fit our...”
– Richard Bach
“Sam: It’s like in the great stories Mr. Frodo, the ones that really...”
– Source: Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
p.s. honestly i must say i have never been a fan of the lord of the rings books or movies, i have to admit i fell asleep after beginning to watch the first half an hour of part one, i’m sorry for saying this, but i like this one.
carine, you also shine a bright light in the dark. your words found straight a way into my heart as you described so truthfully how i felt when i went through dark phrases these days. i think its simply wonderful to feel there is someone somewhere who feel and thinks the same about life and the never ending fight against your inner demons. I’d wish to let go of them. i’d wish not to...
“I am a book of snow,
a spacious hand, an open meadow,
a circle that waits,
I...”
– Pablo Neruda (1904 - 1973)
Restlessness is me, you see. It’s hard to safe....
Ane Brun, Changing Of The Seasons
p.s. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iCa68aE1Ng
“Oh, I am very weary, though tears no longer flow, my eyes are tired of weeping,...”
– Anne Bronte (1820 - 1849)
“The day is a chase after ghost duties; at evening you are exhausted. A day is...”
– John O’Donohue
p.s today it is true, my mind is far away