Pat The Writer

Velvet and honey kisses http://eloquentresilience.tumblr.com/

[iambrillyant]

“you drink gulps of poison every time you compare their path to yours, you taint the essence of what makes you unique when you gaze into their garden more than your own. flowers bloom when you focus on the seeds you’re planting and the growth you’re cultivating within yourself.”

— iambrillyant

[metamorphesque]

— Adonis, Transformations of the Lover

[text ID: From the base of her neck / to the arch of her eyelids / her beauty made a slave of me.]

[rainreads-deactivated20250201]

Auguries of Innocence, William Blake.

[iambrillyant]

“conversations with good intentions, exchanges that feel like cardio sessions for the soul, dialogue directed in growth that lead you back to yourself, words wrapped in vulnerability and soaked in honesty, conversations like this.”

— iambrillyant

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟹, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟼 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟺-𝟷𝟿𝟸𝟹

[ID: July 13. Breathe in the air and the silence. END ID]

[dionyrtal]

happy birthday to me.

[newvision]

— Bob Dylan from When the Deal Goes Down on Modern Times (2006)

[soracities]

e.e. cummings, “in the rain” (from Tulips), Complete Poems: 1904-1962

[Text ID: “a single star is uttered,and i

think           of you”]

[voirlvmer]

“Tonight, trade your pillow for a basket of knives. Don’t dream. If you do, waking will take the rest of your life.”

— K-Ming Chang, from “Self-help for immigrant women”

[shisasan]

𝙹𝚞𝚕𝚢 𝟷𝟿, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶 𝚃𝚑𝚎 𝙳𝚒𝚊𝚛𝚒𝚎𝚜 𝙾𝚏 𝙵𝚛𝚊𝚗𝚣 𝙺𝚊𝚏𝚔𝚊, 𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟶-𝟷𝟿𝟷𝟹

[ID: July 19, slept, awoke, slept, awoke, miserable life. END ID]

[thoughtkick]

I’m always leaving, but I never have anywhere to go.

Courtney Summers (via thoughtkick)

[philosophybits]

“The measure of a person’s disposition is this: how far is he from what he understands to what he does, how great is the distance between his understanding and his actions.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Works of Love

[philosophybits]

“Indeed, history is nothing more than a tableau of crimes and misfortunes.”

— Voltaire, L'Ingénu

[philosophybits]

“To be in love is to surpass one’s self.”

— Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

[philosophybits]

“Three methods we may learn wisdom: 1) reflection, which is noblest; 2) imitation, which is easiest; 3) experience, which is the bitterest.”

— Confucius, Analects

[philosophybits]

“The man of kingly Virtue moves in simplicity and is ashamed to be a master of facts. He takes his stand in the original source, and his understanding extends to the spirits. Therefore his Virtue is far-reaching. His mind moves forth only when some external thing has roused it. Without the Way, the body can have no life, and without Virtue, life can have no clarity.”

— Zhuangzi, The Complete Works of Zhuangzi, Watson tr. (Ch 12)

[philosophybits]

“The charlatan takes very different shapes according to circumstances; but at bottom he is a man who cares nothing about knowledge for its own sake, and only strives to gain the semblance of it that he may use it for his own personal ends, which are always selfish and material.”

— Arthur Schopenhauer, “Similes, Parables and Fables”, Parerga and Paralipomena

[philosophybits]

“What this age needs is awakening.”

— Søren Kierkegaard, Journals and Papers