May 2013
6 posts
Trying to make a path so I fufill my goals Trying to take a bath so I can heal my soul A little bit of laughter to conceal my woes Who gon save me?
“At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And...”
– Salvador Dali 1904–89, Spanish painter (via oupacademic)
Bad things do happen; how I respond to them defines my character and the quality of my life. I can choose to sit in perpetual sadness, immobilized by the gravity of my loss, or I can choose to rise from the pain and treasure the most precious gift I have - life itself.
April 2013
6 posts
“Human progress is neither automatic nor inevitable… Every step toward the...”
– MLK
“I would rather die of passion than of boredom.”
– Vincent van Gogh (via larmoyante)
Five enemies of peace inhabit with us - avarice, ambition, envy, anger, and pride; if these were to be banished, we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
“Like most others, I was a seeker, a mover, a malcontent, and at times a stupid...”
– Hunter S. Thompson
“I love those who can smile in trouble, who can gather strength from distress,...”
– Thomas Paine
I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders
March 2013
22 posts
Never regret something that once made you smile
“Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back. That’s...”
– (via alicemadenietzschecry)
“The art of losing isn’t hard to master;
so many things seem filled with the...”
– One Art — Elizabeth Bishop (Excerpt from poem)
“All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses...”
– T. E. Lawrence (via toyoufromb)
“Music is the mediator between the spiritual and the sensual life.”
– Ludwig van Beethoven (via perception—deception)
“Hell is empty. And all the devils are here.”
– Shakespeare (via newmanbug)
“Without leaps of imagination, or dreaming, we lose the excitement of...”
– Gloria Steinem
“A dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is...”
– Oscar Wilde
“Sometimes being a friend means mastering the art of timing. There is a time for...”
– Gloria Naylor (via graveyardgirrll)
“And I will raise my hand up into the night-time sky/And count the stars shining...”
– Van Morrison. “Sweet Thing.” (via wheniwasnotcruel)
“if the jesus piece around your neck is bigger than your pistol
it makes...”
– Aesop Rock
I went crazy when I first heard this verse from...
I have been completely unable to maintain any semblance of relationship on any level I have been a bastard to the people who have actively attempted to deliver me from peril I have been acutely undeserving of the ear that listen up and lip that kissed me on the temple I have been accustomed to a stubborn disposition that admits it wish it’s history disassembled I have been a hypocrite in...
““Society never advances. It recedes as fast on one side as it gains on the...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
February 2013
10 posts
“People wanna ask ‘Te, why you so mad?’ And I say it’s because comfortable niggas...”
– Phonte (“Can’t Stop Us”)
“This is what I’m faced with all the time/ Ain’t tryna be Rembrandt, just wanna...”
– Phonte
1 tag
“Strength does not come from physical capacity. It comes from indomitable will.”
– Gandhi
1 tag
To err is human. To forgive is divine.
“The light from the dynasty sign froze all the critics
And nary a soul got on...”
– Jay Electronica (via perchancet0dream)
“You totally disonnected with reality,dont believe in dreams. Since when did...”
– (via theylovejason)
“The mark of the immature man is that he wants to die nobly for a cause, while...”
– J.D. Salinger
1 tag
“The greatest gift is the passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it...”
– Moses Hadas
January 2013
14 posts
“Be grateful that a mustard seed of faith is enough to be,
Enough to move a...”
– Jay Electronica (via returnoftheblackking)
“Manifesting our intent creates our reality.”
– (via eternalcognizantblissful)
“breaking is freeing, broken is freedom…I am not broken, I am free”
– (via jhsting32) 