Talk
July 2011
31 posts
People will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.
I'd ask you about love, you'd probably quote me a sonnet
But you’ve never looked at a woman and been totally vulnerable.
Known someone that could level you with her eyes, feeling like God put an angel on earth just for you. Who could rescue you from the depths of hell. And you wouldn’t know what it’s like to be her angel, to have that love for her, be there forever, through anything, through cancer. And you wouldn’t know about sleeping sitting up in the hospital room for two months, holding her hand, because the doctors could see in your eyes, that the terms “visiting hours” don’t apply to you.
You don’t know about real loss, ‘cause it only occurs when you’ve loved something more than you love yourself.
And I doubt you’ve ever dared to love anybody that much.
“Sometimes I wish I had never met you. Because then I could go to sleep at night not knowing there was someone like you out there.”
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“Some women choose to follow men, and some women choose to follow their dreams. If you’re wondering which way to go, remember that your career will never wake up and tell you that it doesn’t love you anymore.”
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"I'm like a drunken genius, except I'm not a genius"
my apartment
is bare. time to relocate!
truth himself
all day today
“I can’t forget about the feelings we shared, and although I do not feel those feelings anymore, I still know they existed and I will always tell people despite our differences that you were a good person and a good part of my life.”
—(via bare—bones)
“I don’t think anybody that has a brain can really be happy. What is there really to be happy about? You tell me. If you’re a thinking human being, there’s no way to divorce yourself from the world. Yes, I probably was happy when I was married to Bogie, but I was very young then. I had a good growing-up life, I would say, but I wasn’t really happy, because I was an only child, and I wasn’t part of a whole family—what we in America consider the proper family, a father and a mother and child, which, of course, is a big crock we know—and yet I had the greatest family anyone could wish for in everyone on my mother’s side. So what you think is happy? Happy shmappy. I think you have to be unconscious to be happy.”
—Lauren Bacall, Vanity Fair March 2011 (via glamouramort)
“The most important things are the hardest to say. They are the things you get ashamed of, because words diminish them — words shrink things that seemed limitless when they were in your head to no more than living size when they’re brought out. But it’s more than that, isn’t it? The most important things lie too close to wherever your secret heart is buried, like landmarks to a treasure your enemies would love to steal away. And you may make revelations that cost you dearly only to have people look at you in a funny way, not understanding what you’ve said at all, or why you thought it was so important that you almost cried while you were saying it. That’s the worst, I think. When the secret stays locked within not for want of a tellar but for want of an understanding ear.”
—Stephen King (Different Seasons)
“It takes a great deal of bravery to stand up to our enemies, but just as much to stand up to our friends.”
—- Albus Dumbledore (via herochan)
my contention is that creativity now is as important in education as literacy, and we should treat it with the same status.
ken robinson
