A Lighthouse of Quotes

"Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us."

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:08:56 -0400

“Let us forget with generosity those who cannot love us.”

- Pablo Neruda

"So much of what we live goes on inside– The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches Of..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 09:08:04 -0400

“So much of what we live goes on inside–
The diaries of grief, the tongue-tied aches
Of unacknowledged love are no less real
For having passed unsaid. What we conceal
Is always more than what we dare confide.
Think of the letters that we write our dead.”

- Dana Gioia, “Unsaid” (via insipidexpectations)

"What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves,..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:15:48 -0400

“What the really great artists do is they’re entirely themselves. They’re entirely themselves, they’ve got their own vision, they have their own way of fracturing reality, and if it’s authentic and true, you will feel it in your nerve endings.”

- David Foster Wallace

"I read my books until I nearly broke their spines, and in the cotton field, I repeated whole..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:14:40 -0400

“

I read my books until
I nearly broke their spines, and in the cotton field,
I repeated whole sections I’d learned by heart,
spelling each word in my head to make a picture
I could see, as well as a weight I could feel
in my mouth. So now, even as I write this
and think of you at home, Goodbye

is the waving map of your palm, is
a stone on my tongue.

”

- Natasha Tretheway, Letter Home

"You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible."

Sat, 25 May 2013 02:12:56 -0400

“You are so vulnerably haunting; Your eeriness is terrifyingly irresistible.”

- Franz Kafka

"Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 01:48:06 -0400

“Maybe you can afford to wait. Maybe for you there’s a tomorrow. Maybe for you there’s one thousand tomorrows, or three thousand, or ten, so much time you can bathe in it, roll around it, let it slide like coins through your fingers. So much time you can waste it. But for some of us there’s only today. And the truth is, you never really know.”

- Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

"It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors,..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 11:00:48 -0400

“It is always important to know when something has reached its end. Closing circles, shutting doors, finishing chapters, it doesn’t matter what we call it; what matters is to leave in the past those moments in life that are over.”

- The Zahir, Paulo Coelho

"That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:58:39 -0400

“That is why it is so important to let certain things go. To release them. To cut loose. People need to understand that no one is playing with marked cards; sometimes we win and sometimes we lose. Don’t expect to get anything back, don’t expect recognition for your efforts, don’t expect your genius to be discovered or your love to be understood. Complete the circle. Not out of pride, inability or arrogance, but simply because whatever it is no longer fits in your life. Close the door, change the record, clean the house, get rid of the dust. Stop being who you were and become who you are.”

- The Zahir, Paulo Coleho

"‘What do you know about poverty?’ The tall, aggressive man, who now has even more vodka..."

Sun, 19 May 2013 10:57:00 -0400

“‘What do you know about poverty?’ The tall, aggressive man, who now has even more vodka in his veins, looks straight at me. ‘Do you really think that poverty has to do with having no money? Do you think we’re miserable wretches just because we go around begging money from rich writers and guilt-ridden couples, from tourists who think how terribly squalid Paris has become or from idealistic young people who think they can save the world? You’re the one who’s poor—you have no control over your time, you can’t do what you want, you’re forced to follow rules you didn’t invent and which you don’t understand…’”

- The Zahir, Paulo Coleho (pg. 217)

Tigers Jaw

Thu, 16 May 2013 06:53:09 -0400

Tigers Jaw

"We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open..."

Wed, 15 May 2013 23:47:39 -0400

“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together with the windows open and the stars bright.””

- Ernest Hemingway. (via theliterarydreamer)

"In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:59:51 -0400

“In a child’s eyes, a mother is a goddess. She can be glorious or terrible, benevolent or filled with wrath, but she commands love either way. I am convinced that this is the greatest power in the universe.”

- N.K. Jemisin, A Hundred Thousand Kingdoms

"Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop..."

Sun, 12 May 2013 01:58:28 -0400

“Rejoicing in ordinary things is not sentimental or trite. It actually takes guts. Each time we drop our complaints and allow everyday good fortune to inspire us, we enter the warrior’s world.”

- Pema Chodron

"Eventually you forgive people for not knowing about you the things you’ve spent your life keeping..."

Tue, 07 May 2013 06:01:35 -0400

“Eventually you forgive people for not knowing about you the things you’ve spent your life keeping from them.”

- Robert Brault

"That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps changing. And later you..."

Mon, 06 May 2013 06:01:23 -0400

“That is the saddest part when you lose someone you love—that person keeps changing. And later you wonder, is this the same person I lost?”

- Amy Tan, “The Kitchen God’s Wife”

"My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:57:22 -0400

“My solitude doesn’t depend on the presence or absence of people; on the contrary, I hate who steals my solitude without, in exchange, offering me true company.”

- Friedrich Nietzsche

"… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to..."

Sun, 05 May 2013 07:55:31 -0400

“… the socialization of boys regarding masculinity is often at the expense of women. I came to realize that we don’t raise boys to be men, we raise them not to be women (or gay men). We teach boys that girls and women are “less than” and that leads to violence by some and silence by many. It’s important for men to stand up to not only stop men’s violence against women but, to teach young men a broader definition of masculinity that includes being empathetic, loving and non-violent.”

- Don McPherson, former NFL quarterback, feminist and educator (via albinwonderland)

"I am a cage, in search of a bird."

Sun, 05 May 2013 06:01:21 -0400

“I am a cage, in search of a bird.”

- Franz Kafka

"I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it."

Sun, 05 May 2013 05:16:54 -0400

“I can’t stand it to think my life is going so fast and I’m not really living it.”

- The Sun Also Rises, Ernest Hemingway

"Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place."

Sat, 04 May 2013 11:26:40 -0400

“Wherever you stand, be the soul of that place.”

- Rumi