[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

The courage to be something other than what one is, to give birth to oneself, and to leave one’s former body on the ground. And without having answered to anyone about whether it was worthwhile.

Clarice Lispector (via kavichi)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

Is that all you want to be? Liked? Wouldn’t you rather be passionately and voraciously desired?

Margaret Atwood, from “Bodily Harm,” (via violentwavesofemotion)

[stardust-seedling]

If ordinary people really knew that consciousness and not matter is the link that connects us with each other and the world, then their views about war and peace, environmental pollution, social justice, religious values, and all other human endeavors would change radically.

Amit Goswami, Ph.D, Theoretical Quantum Physicist (via stardust-seedling)

[female-only-deactivated20180801]

‘Sex’ doesn’t sell. Erosion of female self esteem does. The feeling of superiority over women does. Turning women into ‘things’ to be studied, scrutinized & judged and then calling it ‘sex’ does. Sex doesn’t sell. Objectification does

Sadiqa Thornton (via vulturechow)

[oldfilmsflicker]

[zuiol-deactivated20200109]

I find the notion of happiness rather strange… It has never been a goal of mine; I just don’t think in those terms. […] I try to give meaning to my existence through my work. That’s a simplified answer, but whether I’m happy or not really doesn’t count for much. I have always enjoyed my work. Maybe “enjoy” isn’t the right word; I love making films, and it means a lot to me that I can work in this profession. I am well aware of the many aspiring filmmakers out there with good ideas who never find a foothold. At the age of fourteen, once I realized filmmaking was an uninvited duty for me, I had no choice but to push on with my projects. Cinema has given me everything, but has also taken everything from me.

Werner Herzog (via zuiol)

[redroseofcairo-deactivated20200]

People say that what we’re all seeking is a meaning for life. I don’t think that’s what we’re really seeking. I think that what we’re seeking is an experience of being alive, so that our life experiences on the purely physical plane will have resonances with our own innermost being and reality, so that we actually feel the rapture of being alive.” Joseph Campbell, The Power of Myth

(via redroseofcairo)

[violentwavesofemotion-deactivat]

But the tension between what I feel and what I can communicate is considerable.

Joyce Carol Oates, from a journal entry (via violentwavesofemotion)

[lifeinpoetry]

There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your ordinary mirage. You stand red-handed. You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grass What are you supposed to do with all this loss?

Margaret Atwood, from “Down,” Morning in the Burned House (via lifeinpoetry)

[basedjane]

I stopped looking for the light. Decided to become it instead.

Francheska, of ‘Hey Fran Hey’   (via thatkindofwoman)

[anamorphosis-and-isolate]

I have often fought, fought & won, not perfection, but an acceptance of myself as having a right to live on my own human, fallible terms.

Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals Of Sylvia Plath (via anamorphosis-and-isolate)

[khofnak-deactivated20160409]

“Criticism must think of itself as life-enhancing and constitutively opposed to every form of tyranny, domination, and abuse; its social goals are non-coercive knowledge produced in the interests of human freedom.” 

― Edward Said

[beautyandtheuniverse]

I like stories where women save themselves.

Neil Gaiman (via theglasschild)

[wordsnquotes]

You never forget. It must be somewhere inside you. Even if the brain has forgotten, perhaps the teeth remember. Or the fingers.

Neil Gaiman, Trigger Warning: Short Fictions and Disturbances   (via delfiini)

[amanda-oaks]

All animal, you reach back through years of untamable breathing to remind yourself that you will never not be storm, the cellar doors on your heart’s prairie, they don’t know shut, they don’t know batten or bolt or nail, they loose, they windswept, they wingbeat wild & waiting to swing any-which-way your breath blows.

You Move Like I Want To ✮ @amanda-oaks (via amanda-oaks)

[endless-unfolding]

More than once, I’ve been a bell broken Against its own ringing.

Roger Reeves, from “Against Its Own Ringing,” in King Me (via a-pair-of-ragged-claws)

[wordsnquotes]

Addiction is pretty simple. It’s what happens when people don’t get what they need, and they end up soothing themselves.

Gabor Mate (via wordsnquotes)