Jujubes
August 2012
“There are so many fragile things, after all. People break so easily, and so do dreams and hearts.”
—Neil Gaiman (via selfinspiration)
“Nothing ever becomes real till it is experienced—Even a proverb is no proverb to you till your Life has illustrated it.”
——John Keats (via keepcalmquotes)
“We sit and talk quietly,
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.” —William Carlos Williams (via pavorst)
with long lapses of silence,
and I am aware of the stream that has no language,
coursing beneath the quiet heaven of your eyes, which has no speech.” —William Carlos Williams (via pavorst)
“you remember too much,
my mother said to me recently.
why hold onto all that? and i said,
where can i put it down?” —anne carson, the glass essay
posted by/ thanks to awritersruminations (via m3zzaluna)
my mother said to me recently.
why hold onto all that? and i said,
where can i put it down?” —anne carson, the glass essay
posted by/ thanks to awritersruminations (via m3zzaluna)
“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, A Moveable Feast (via blua)
“One of the most satisfying experiences I know is just fully to appreciate an individual in the same way I appreciate a sunset. When I look at a sunset … I don’t find myself saying, “Soften the orange a little on the right hand corner, and put a bit more purple in the cloud color” … I don’t try to control a sunset. I watch it with awe as it unfolds. It is this receptive, open attitude which is necessary to truly perceive something as it is.”
—Carl Rogers (via onlinecounsellingcollege)
“…before I die I want to see
the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.” —
the world that lies behind the strangeness of your eyes.” —
From: On The Road to The Sea
Charlotte Mew
Source: When Love Speaks
Edited by Adam O’Riordan
(via huong1952)
“Victorian scientists were particularly interested in [the question of animal suicide], according to historian Edmund Ramsden in a 2010 article. Humane societies were eager to prove that animals experienced humanlike emotions, and animal suicides offered proof. A series of such stories began to appear in periodicals in 1845. One involved a depressed Newfoundland dog that repeatedly leapt into the water, kept its limbs still, and held his “head determinedly under water for a few minutes.” Other dogs drowned or starved themselves after losing their owners. A deer jumped from a precipice to avoid capture by hunting dogs. A duck drowned itself after the death of its mate. Scorpions were thought to sting themselves when surrounded by fire. No matter the motivation, self-destruction appears to be something that exists in even the simplest life forms. Single-celled marine algae engage in programmed cell death when exposed to stresses that they’re fully capable of overcoming. Researchers recently discovered that the “suicide” of some cells promoted growth in the survivors. Like infected mole rats or bees that abandon the colony to prevent an epidemic, algae die for the good of the community.”
—Do animals commit suicide? (via blaaargh)
