Words for the Mind

"I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful."

Sun, 19 May 2013 15:30:48 -0700

““I don’t love studying. I hate studying. I like learning. Learning is beautiful.””

- Natalie Portman (via emotional-algebra)

"I wait and ache."

Thu, 02 May 2013 20:30:26 -0700

“I wait and ache.”

- Sylvia Plath, “Three Women” (via perfect)

"In every job that must be done there is an element of fun!"

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 18:01:35 -0700

“In every job that must be done there is an element of fun!”

- Mary Poppins (via inspiremetobeinspired)

"Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away."

Tue, 30 Apr 2013 15:30:44 -0700

“Angry, and half in love with you, and tremendously sorry, I turned away.”

- F. Scott Fitzgerald (via whskey)

"She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies..."

Fri, 26 Apr 2013 15:30:35 -0700

“She was terrific to hold hands with. Most girls if you hold hands with them, their goddam hand dies on you, or else they think they have to keep moving their hand all the time, as if they were afraid they’d bore you or something. Jane was different. We’d get into a goddam movie or something, and right away we’d start holding hands, and we wouldn’t quit till the movie was over. And without changing the position or making a deal out of it. You never even worried, with Jane, whether your hand was sweaty or not. All you knew was, you were happy. You really were.”

- J. D. Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye (via my-dark-star)

"I like to wait while his mouth kisses my neck, moving down to where my neckline goes deep, and my..."

Sun, 21 Apr 2013 15:30:48 -0700

“I like to wait while his mouth kisses my neck, moving down to where my neckline goes deep, and my breasts hurt swollen a little, waiting for his hands to begin, and my hair is falling loose over my bare shoulders, and my mouth is soft and wet and wanting under his.””

- Sylvia Plath, The Unabridged Journals (via perfect)

"If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 20:30:30 -0700

“If I had to live my life again, I’d make the same mistakes, only sooner.”

- Tallulah Bankhead

"Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply..."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 18:01:20 -0700

“Spring won’t let me stay in this house any longer! I must get out and breathe the air deeply again.”

- Gustav Mahler

"Art is anything people do with distinction."

Sat, 20 Apr 2013 15:30:32 -0700

“Art is anything people do with distinction.”

- Louis Dudek

"With our love, we could save the world."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 20:30:26 -0700

“With our love, we could save the world.”

- George Harrison

"Experience is the teacher of all things."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 18:01:19 -0700

“Experience is the teacher of all things.”

- Julius Caesar

"A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm."

Fri, 19 Apr 2013 15:30:28 -0700

“A community is like a ship; everyone ought to be prepared to take the helm.”

- Henrik Ibsen

"The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 20:30:23 -0700

“The only normal people are the one’s you don’t know very well.”

- Alfred Adler

"Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 18:01:46 -0700

“Solitary trees, if they grow at all, grow strong.”

- Winston Churchill

"Creativity takes courage."

Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:30:50 -0700

“Creativity takes courage.”

- Henri Matisse

"Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 20:30:00 -0700

“Love you will find only where you may show yourself weak without provoking strength.”

- Theodor Adorno

"If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 18:01:00 -0700

“If you ask me what I came into this life to do, I will tell you: I came to live out loud.”

- Emile Zola

"It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the..."

Wed, 17 Apr 2013 15:30:00 -0700

“It is a common experience that a problem difficult at night is resolved in the morning after the committee of sleep has worked on it.”

- John Steinbeck

"If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 20:30:00 -0700

“If the stars should appear but one night every thousand years how man would marvel and stare.”

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

"I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable."

Tue, 16 Apr 2013 18:01:00 -0700

“I think we have all experienced passion that is not in any sense reasonable.”

- Stephen Fry