February 2012
50 posts
Do not quench your inspiration and your imagination; do not become the slave of...
– Vincent van Gogh (via nirvikalpa)
There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is...
– Ernest Hemingway (via nirvikalpa)
beware those who are quick to censor they are afraid of what they do not know
– Charles Bukowski (via henrycharlesbukowski)
Some girls - like me - rejected boys’ toys entirely as children, loved pink and...
– Clementine Ford (via feminismandequality)
For most of life, nothing wonderful happens. If you don’t enjoy getting up and...
– Andy Rooney (via creatingaquietmind)
The image of myself which I try to create in my own mind in order that I may...
– W.H. Auden (via creatingaquietmind)
You came empty handed, you will leave empty handed. You came with nothing, you...
– Bhagavad Gita (via elige)
I take each thing as it is, without prior rules about what it should be.
– Bob Dylan (via kari-shma)
I change my life when I change my thinking. I am Light. I am Spirit. I am a...
– Lousie L. Hay (via nirvikalpa)
nattattack:
The unreal is more powerful than the real, because nothing is as perfect as you can imagine it. Because it’s only intangible ideas, concepts, beliefs, fantasies, that last. Stone crumbles. Wood rots. People, well, they die, but things as fragile as a thought, a dream, a legend, they can go on and on forever.
Chuck Palahnuick
“The female body is rarely a site of empowerment except when it is being objectified to define female strength through heterosexist sexiness, which, displayed for male satisfaction, creates little real power for women. Because female rappers’ value lies in their ability to perform masculinity as well as be sexually objectified, when a femcee is not performing the role of the sexually...
When I am assertive, I’m a bitch. When a man is assertive, he’s a boss. He...
– Nicki Minaj, MTV (via sweetthangz)
i love this quote
I have noticed that even people who claim everything is predetermined and that...
– Stephen Hawking, Black Holes and Baby Universes and Other Essays (via nattattack)
nattattack:
brown-metal:
Oh, & we also did “My Favorite Accident”
STILL SICK BUT IT’S OKAY
biffle with the sick voice (pun intended natalie lolol)
The best way out is always through.
– Robert Frost (via ffreefall)
Mantra of the Day: Calm Down the Mind
nirvikalpa:
Let go of the thoughts.
You don’t have to follow the thoughts. Just be aware of thoughts arising and let them go.
Let peace settle in your mind.
Treat me like a joke and i’ll leave you like its funny.
– Tupac (via ffreefall)
You can’t lose what you don’t own…
Could you really love somebody who was...
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― Toni Morrison
(via lineandlight)
Self-respect is the fruit of discipline: the sense of dignity grows with the...
– Rabbi Abraham Heschel (via partoftheatmosphere)
“No one can be authentically human while he prevents others from being so”
“The world which brings consciousness into existence becomes the world of that consciousness. “