February 2012
57 posts
“If you quietly accept and go along no matter what your feelings are, ultimately...”
– Words From The Left:
“Who has not sat before his own heart’s curtain? It lifts: and the scenery is...”
– Rainer Maria Rilke (via casimirpulaskiday)
“…that this death fails to destroy me altogether means that I want to live...”
– Roland Barthes, Mourning Diary (translated by Richard Howard)
“Suddenly, all at once, she knows, knows that he doesn’t understand her, that he...”
– Marguerite Duras, The Lover
via nymphlight (via frenchtwist)
“Part of the mechanics of oppressing people is to pervert them to the extent that...”
– Kumasi, “Crips & Bloods: Made in America” (via insaniyat)
“Conventional wisdom tells us that obesity itself is a major cause of clogged...”
– Obesity, Health and Metabolic Fitness by Glenn Gaesser, Ph.D.
Definitely read the whole article, it’s wonderful.
(via redefiningbodyimage)
unknowablewoman:
andlionheart:
Why can’t guys that I actually find attractive be more interesting? Why can’t I be more attracted to the guys that are actually interested in me?
Why can’t I find an interesting, attractive guy that is actually interested in me? Why do all the interesting, attractive guys that are interested in me have to live light years away?
GPOY
“After this deluge
I wish to see the dove
saved,
nothing but the dove.
I...”
– Ingeborg Bachmann, “After this Deluge” (translated by Johannes Beilharz)
Watchmohandasgandhi:
popmuslim:
Anderson Cooper talks to a Syrian activist who says the government is shelling Homs and more than 200 have been killed.
It’s like they are killing animals, these are human beings. They’ve been stabbing kids they’ve been stabbing women, raping women and no one is doing anything about this. This isn’t a game here; this is a reality this is actually going on. All these...
tooyoungforthelivingdead:
cwnl:
Individual’s Sexism Leads to Gender Inequality In Whole Society
Individual beliefs don’t stay confined to the person who has them; they can affect how a society functions. A new study published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science, looks at 57 countries and finds that an individual’s sexism leads to gender inequality...
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka (via andrewharlow)
“I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be alone...”
– Oscar Wilde (via loveyourchaos)
