A Literary Soul

Fatima | 22

[shutyourmoustache]

As a speech therapist/educator, I’m always trying to find simple techniques/explanations to help little kids process and understand their emotions and then teach them healthy ways to express themselves when they’re angry, frustrated, etc. I notice that telling them I deal with the same difficulties, like wanting to yell when I’m angry, goes a long way. Then they know what they feel isn’t weird BUT there are ways to handle their emotions that don’t hurt themselves or others.

[zaidalhourani]

“You are most powerful when you are most silent. People never expect silence. They expect words, motion, defense, offense, back and forth. They expect to leap into the fray. They are ready, fists up, words hanging leaping from their mouths. Silence? No.”

"أنت أقوى عندما تكون صامتًا. لا يتوقع الناس الصمت أبدًا. إنهم يتوقعون الكلمات ، والحركة ، والدفاع ، والهجوم ، ذهابًا وإيابًا. يتوقعون القفز إلى المعركة. إنهم جاهزون ، بقبضات اليد ، والكلمات تتدلى من أفواههم. الصمت؟ لا."

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[neoyorzapoteca]

“I often say I don’t necessarily relate to people who make art, performance, or literature, but I do relate to people who make art, performance, and literature who think of quitting every fifteen seconds. Those are really my people. I call us the boy-who-cried wolf set, since we always announce we’re quitting but never do, and therefore no one believes us anymore. It seems to me that anyone who works in the arts today and doesn’t have serious, ongoing doubts as to the validity or efficacy of the situation is not facing all of the current, inherent problems and questions with open eyes.”

— Jacob Wren, Authenticity is a Feeling: My Life in PME-ART (via jacobwren)

[slowheart]

sorry for taking so long to text you back i was plagued by issues and situations of daily life that i should be used to by now..

[miseducatedmelanicmuse]

[qothqueen]

*organizes life at 3am*

[templodeafrodite]

“People do not see you, / They invent you and accuse you.”

— Hélène Cixous, from The Selected Plays of Hélène Cixous; “The Perjured City,”

[poems-and-word]

[naturaekos]

You were a dream. Then a reality. Now a memory.

(via naturaekos)

[xshayarsha]

From Calvary (1920) W.B. Yeats.

[extramadness]

[naturaekos]

“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years? You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right? There was no planning for retirement, There was no planning for a career. There was no planning. No time for plannning. No time for a future. But then the life spans started getting longer, and people started having more and more future. And now life has become the future. Every moment of your life is lived for the future—you go to high school so you can go to college so you can get a good job so you can get a nice house so you can afford to send your kids to college so they can get a good job so they can get a nice house so they can afford to send their kids to college.”

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[tenderheartangel-deactivated202]

“Won’t you come into the garden? I would like my roses to see you.”

— Richard B. Sheridan (via oiseauperdu)

[naturaekos]

“The truth is that I am not one of those who find their satisfaction in one person, or in infinity.”

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[rapunzelle]

i don’t know much about being a mother, but the thought of you makes me want to learn

[chanelbagsandcigarettedrags]

[metamorphesque]

How could she feel nostalgia when he was right in front of her? How can you suffer from the absence of a person who is present? You can suffer nostalgia in the presence of the beloved if you glimpse a future where the beloved is no more.

Milan Kundera ~ Anne Magill