February 2012
12 posts
“I think I’d probably tell you that it’s easier to desire and pursue...”
– William Gibson, from IDORU (via @MySirRichards)
“I could die right now, Clem. I’m just… happy. I’ve never felt...”
– Joel, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (my favorite love story of all time)
“You have to have courage to love somebody. Because you risk everything....”
– Maya Angelou via @elephantjournal
“Your flirt finds me out
Teases the crack in me
Smittens me with hope
Possibly...”
– Bjork
January 2012
4 posts
“First — if you are in love — that’s a good thing — that’s about the best thing...”
– John Steinbeck on falling in love, in a 1958 letter to his son, via Maria Popova (via hannahmiet)
HappyThankYouMorePlease
Sam #2: Okay, what're we feeling, red or white?
Annie: Sam.
Sam #2: Hmm.
Annie: We need to talk.
Sam #2: (chuckles) Uh, you mean the talk where you tell me how great I am, uh, but you can't get involved and it's not me it's you and you're damaged and you wish you could and (cough) (huck)...I refuse to have that talk. Now would you like red or would you like white?
Annie: Sam...look, I...I'm not good for you.
Sam #2: (stares)
Annie: What?
Sam #2: Are you happy?
Annie: No I'm not happy.
Sam #2: I could make you happy.
Annie: (sighs)
Sam #2: Seriously, let me love you. I am totally up to the task. Actually, I've already started.
Annie: (gets up to leave) I can't, I can't...
Sam #2: No no no no no, come on, don't walk out on this before we've even started, please.
Sam #2: Look at me. I get it, okay. I get it. I'm not the guy you had in mind. But what if you don't know what's best for you?
Annie: And you do?
Sam #2: I believe I do.
Annie: Where did you come from Sam #2?
Sam #2: West Chester
Annie: (laughs)
Sam #2: Do you want to know why I hang out on the fifth floor? The first time I saw you...God, I thought, "Wow, her...the girl with the funny head wrap. I wanna be near that girl." Trust me, I don't normally talk this way, but I am gone over you.
Annie: Stop. Okay, shut the fuck up.
Sam #2: Why, why?
Annie: Just stop, please just stop, don't say that.
Sam #2: You can hear this... Close your eyes.
Annie: What?
Sam #2: I just want you to listen to me. Humor me please.
Annie: (pauses and then with a sigh, closes her eyes)
Sam #2: It's not easy to be adored, you in particular, you have a tougher time with it than most, I get that, but I want you to give it a try. Think of it as an experiment. I promise I will be very wonderful at adoring you Annie. It's an area where I think I've got a great deal of talent. You're worth the adoration Annie, you're worth it..and the fact that you don't believe it has nothing to do with whether it's true or not. It's true for me and that's all that matters.
“Be grateful for whoever comes, because each guest has been sent as a guide from...”
– Rumi (via @zen_moments)
December 2011
6 posts
Thought for the day
gradnessmadness:
“We will discover the nature of our particular genius when we stop trying to conform to our own and other’s people’s models, learn to be ourselves and allow our natural channel to open.”
- Shakti Gawain
“I cannot give you the formula for success, but I can give you the formula for...”
– Herbert Bayard Swope
The feeling of not knowing
gradnessmadness:
“I have come to accept the feeling of not knowing where I am going. And I have trained myself to love it. Because it is only when we are suspended in mid-air with no landing in sight, that we force our wings to unravel and alas begin our flight. And as we fly, we still may not know where we are going to. But the miracle is in the unfolding of the wings. You may not know where...
“If you think back and replay your year, if it doesn’t bring you tears either of...”
– John Cage, from Ally McBeal
November 2011
8 posts
“While it’s often fashionable to dwell upon what might have been,...”
– The Universe
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Many grad students are in school until our 30s depending on a variety of factors (e.g., when we started grad school, if we changed disciplines or…
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the...”
– Rumi
“Long have I waited here for nothing to come. The sequence of twisted turns that...”
– Apparat (Candile De La Calle)
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Take the risk
gradnessmadness:
“We pay a heavy price for our fear of failure. It is a powerful obstacle to growth. It assures the progressive narrowing of the personality and prevents exploration and experimentation. There is no learning without some difficulty and fumbling. If you want to keep on learning, you must keep on risking failure – all your life.”
- John W. Gardner
Thought for the day
gradnessmadness:
“Let me not pray to be sheltered from dangers, but to be fearless in facing them. Let me not beg for the stilling of my pain, but for the heart to conquer it.”
- Rabindranath Tagore
October 2011
14 posts
“When you have been
at war with yourself
for so many years that
you have...”
– From Out the Cave by Joyce Sutphen, from Straight Out of View
“To love authentically is to discern the real hunger that generates the...”
– Monika Hellwig from Eucharist and the Hunger of the World
“Let everything happen to you
Beauty and terror
Just keep going
No feeling is...”
– Rilke (thank you, @ericaedean)
“Knowing that we can be loved exactly as we are gives us all the best opportunity...”
– Fred Rogers (via @Zen_Moments)
“Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap...”
– Steve Jobs (1955-2011)
“Anxiety is love’s greatest killer. It makes one feel as you might when a...”
– Anais Nin (via @clareyt)
“Don’t underestimate the value of Doing Nothing, of just listening to all...”
– Winnie the Pooh (via @Zen_Moments)
September 2011
15 posts
“One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the...”
– Thanks to SirRichard’s for posting about this here - Heart Broken? It’s How the Light Gets In - and inspiring me to look up some of these quotes to share with the Internet.
“Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who...”
– Antilamentation by Dorianne Laux (via @ericadean)
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