May 2012
206 posts
“Memory is the only thing that binds you to earlier selves; for the rest, you...
You know that moment when you’re reading a book and you just have to stop and bite your lip and squeal or sigh or close your eyes and wrinkle your nose and forehead and press the book against your heart and just like sit there and try to soak up the gorgeous literature via osmosis?
That’s my favorite part of reading.
Introverts, in contrast, may have strong social skills and enjoy parties and...
– Susan Cain, Quiet (via myheadisweak)
“If your compassion does not include yourself - it is incomplete.”
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Find someone who will tremble for your touch, someone whose fingers are a poem.
– Janet Fitch (via dailystendhalnitesaudade)
Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without...
– George Sand (via teaintheafternoon)
I have ceased to question stars and books; I have begun to listen to the...
– Hermann Hesse (via allthingssoulful)