My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
Happy Birthday to the original hipster.
SketchyGrrl
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A book is like a garden carried in the pocket.
Chinese proverb
The non-partisan Tax Policy Center in Washington estimates that if the Bush tax cuts stay in plane, the Romney plan would add $180 billion to the deficit in the year 2015. The Gingrich plan would add $850 billion that year.
An individual has not started living until he can rise above the narrow confines of his individualistic concerns to the broader concerns of all humanity.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
All my life, my heart has yearned for a thing I cannot name.
Andre Breton
When you’ve dug yourself a hole, Midas, and someone offers you a way out, it’s customary to take it, not keep digging.
We all want to fall in love. Why? Because that experience makes us feel completely alive. Where every sense is heightened, every emotion is magnified, our everyday reality is shattered and we are flying into the heavens. It may only last a moment, and hour, an afternoon. But that doesn’t diminish its value. Because we are left with memories that we treasure for the rest of our lives.
Unknown (via wild-spirit)
As all-consuming as a young girl’s fancies were … a woman’s desires could be twice as dangerous.
TERESA MEDEIROS, The Vampire Who Loved Me
Want.
