July 2010
34 posts
soul-surfer:
…there was purity and there was the dream, and the adventure, and there was the counterculture aspect. It was like shove society, shove the nine to five, shove the rules… we’re just going to follow our hearts, treat each other well, eat well and enjoy the ocean. It was not for money and it wasn’t for fame… that’s what we’re gunna do… purely because that’s what our hearts want to do....
soul-surfer:
“See the whole thing is a world full of rucksack wanderers, Dharma Bums refusing to subscribe to the general demand that they consume production and therefore have to work for the privilege of consuming, all that crap they didn’t really want anyway such as refrigerators, TV sets, cars, and general junk you finally always see a week later in the garbage anyway, all of them imprisoned...
“For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It’s always our self we find in the...”
– e.e. cummings (via soul-surfer)
'Monster star': R136a1 compared with our solar... →
melancholynotes:
Incredible! For a size comparison go on the link and click ‘next’ below the graphic.
one forty plus: The Woman →
Sometimes I get the itch to go out for a drink thinking I might miss meeting the woman of my dreams, but then I realize the woman of my dreams isn’t at a bar at 12:36 on a Wednesday morning. No, the woman of my dreams is asleep in bed with her lame boyfriend she’s only now beginning to see is…
we will be judged on love alone.
365 Polaroids & Quotes
Even there Your hand will guide me.
365 Polaroids & Quotes
Infinite ocean of light and love
365 Polaroids & Quotes
“To love beauty is to see light.”
– 365 Polaroids & Quotes
The Peace of Wild Things by Wendell Berry
melancholynotes:
When despair for the world grows in me and I wake in the night at the least sound in fear of what my life and my children’s lives may be, I go and lie down where the wood drake rests in his beauty on the water, and the great heron feeds. I come into the peace of wild things who do not tax their lives with forethought of grief. I come into the presence of still water. And I feel...
We Stopped at Perfect Days by Richard Brautigan
melancholynotes:
We stopped at perfect days and got out of the car. The wind glanced at her hair. It was as simple as that. I turned to say something—
(via poesies, posted by the beautiful Lydiane)
<3
Luke 12:27
my new favorite scripture as of late
Luke 12:27 ‘Look at the lilies & how they grow. They don’t work or make their clothing, yet Solomon in all His glory was not dressed as beautifully as they are.”
Nice reminder that all of this extra STUFF that we think we need, we DON’T. All of that which we do need is so simply around us if we only take the time to look.
LOOKBOOK.nu: Cruel summer. →
“When I look at my life and its secret colours, I feel like bursting into tears....”
– from A Happy Death by Albert Camus (via aubade)
This is so incredibly beautiful! I will adopt it as one of my most beloved quotes.
(via melancholynotes)
“She was tired of everyone wanting to go to heaven, nobody wanting to die. The...”
– Colum McCann, Let the Great World Spin (via quotesixty)
“Maybe we’re notes, plucked from strings we cannot see. Maybe we’re all echoes of...”
– I wrote this for you (via kari-shma, inmyskin)
“You don’t have to be a “person of influence” to be influential. In fact, the...”
– Scott Adams (via kari-shma) (via theseviolentdelights)
LOOKBOOK.nu: summerhippie →
