"

And don’t think the garden loses its

ecstasy in winter. It’s quiet, but
the roots are down there riotous.

"

~   Rumi, from “Form Is Ecstatic” in The Soul of Rumi, trans. Coleman Barks (via litverve)

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"…no shape at all, but a swirling darkness, the red darkness you see when you close your eyes in pain."

~   “The Last Unicorn” ~ Peter S. Beagle (via mwauhshell)
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20th May 2013✧18:1524 notes

"A woman is beaten every nine seconds in this country. Just to be clear: not nine minutes, but nine seconds. It’s the number-one cause of injury to American women; of the two million injured annually, more than half a million of those injuries require medical attention while about 145,000 require overnight hospitalizations, according to the Center for Disease Control, and you don’t want to know about the dentistry needed afterwards. Spouses are also the leading cause of death for pregnant women in the U.S."

~   Rebecca Solnit, The Longest War | TomDispatch (via nickturse)

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18th May 2013✧19:544,711 notes

"I feel all shadows of the universe multiplied deep inside my skin."

~   Virginia Wood (via loveage-moondream)

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12th May 2013✧08:553,572 notes

” No boss man would survive if he said, “ugh, you should put on some makeup, doll yourself up a little bit” but women say this to other women all the time— especially at work.  “You look really tired,” says a woman in MAC Greensmoke to another who isn’t.  Just once I wish the reply would be, “I am, your husband kept me up all night.”  Not very progressive, but hilarious. “

from the last psychiatrist

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30th Apr 2013✧18:526 notes

"So we drove on toward death through the cooling twilight."

~   F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via portionsofeternity)

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28th Apr 2013✧15:3033 notes

"Do you know what I need? To escape into the mountains, surrounded by tall trees, I will lay on the moss, and breath in the scent of mushrooms, flowers and wet soil."

~   Les Discrets - L’ Échappée  (via sylphwings)

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26th Apr 2013✧18:305,661 notes

"We depend on nature not only for our physical survival. We also need nature to show us the way home, the way out of the prison of our minds. We got lost in doing, thinking, remembering, anticipating ; lost in a maze of complexity and a world of problems. We have forgotten what rocks, plants and animals still know. We have forgotten how to be – to be still, to be ourselves, to be where life is : here and now."

~   Eckhart Tolle  (via valleyofstrangers)

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"Expectation is the root of all heartache."

~   William Shakespeare (via derkreisel)

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14th Apr 2013✧12:4833,581 notes

"Every reader, as he reads, is actually the reader of himself. The writer’s work is only a kind of optical instrument he provides the reader so he can discern what he might never have seen in himself without this book. The reader’s recognition in himself of what the book says is the proof of the book’s truth."

~   Marcel Proust (via faulknerandfieldnotes)

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