February 2012
36 posts
“For me the most important thing about therapy is that there is someone who will listen to you. Freely. He won’t talk back or correct you or interrupt or tell you you’re wrong or undermine you in more subtle ways. You can say anything you want, you can say the things closest to your heart, the things you may never have told anyone, and it’s all right.”
– Ellen Bass, The Courage to Heal
"you're my worst addiction," he wrote.
I awoke suddenly at 4:31 this morning.
“But even so, every now and then I would feel a violent stab of loneliness. The very water I drink, the very air I breathe, would feel like long, sharp needles. The pages of a book in my hands would take on the threatening metallic gleam of razor blades. I could hear the roots of loneliness creeping through me when the world was hushed at four o’clock...
but i dont, so ill write
if i painted, now would be the ideal time
about to explode or something
demons and what not
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Repression is like a stone thrown into quicksand - the memory sinks quietly and unobtrusively from view and will not surface unless some profound cataclysm thrusts it to the surface or until a trained specialist draws out the memory from its hiding place.
Dr. Dan B. Allender
“There is safety in soul-numbing rigidity that does not require thought, reflection, or risk. But the honest person knows that soulless conformity never leads to life-giving change.
All the effort in the world expended to arrive at the “right” location will be of little avail if the traveler is moving in the wrong direction or has known or unknown reasons for not wanting to...
cant sleep so thats cool
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ser pero no saber nada
And the sun with its brightness, And the snow with its whiteness, And the fire with all the strength it hath, And the lightning with its rapid wrath, And the winds with their swiftness along their path, And the sea with its deepness, And the rocks with their steepness,
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“There is something therapeutic about doing for others that lifts a person out of the rut of self-thought.” ― Tim LaHaye
things to be happy about
a free ticket to an opera at the Tennessee Theater.
friends who listen and dont offer platitudes.
dressing up for 90’s themed parties.
reconnecting with an old friend over coffee.
the house blend from Mojoe’s trailside coffee.
being 5 minutes late to class and your professor being 5 minutes later.
the completion of an application to study abroad in Spain.
planning a California...
Woohoo
My CEA study abroad advisor called me today to work out the last details of my program. I’ll be in Alicante, Spain from May-August! I’m anxious to delve into the Spanish culture and fall even more in love with the language. Costa del Sol: here I come.
something I just learned:
George Orwell fought in the Spanish Civil War. What?
the constant of the universe by andy weaver
These words are dedicated to those who died because they had no love and felt alone in the world (Irena Klepfisz, “Bashert”) And there is no hand to reach for mine, to take this pen from me, stop it from reaching the end. And so loneliness, in the end, is the dotted yellow line you follow, mindless, because it’s there, that desire to gut every painting of lovers, to poke your fingers through their...
I want you to tell me about every person you’ve ever been in love with. Tell me why you loved them, then tell me why they loved you. Tell me about a day in your life you didn’t think you’d live through. Tell me what the word “home” means to you and tell me in a way that I’ll know your mothers name just by the way you describe your bed room when you were 8. See, I wanna know the first time you felt...
“It’s a strange thing, how you can love somebody, how you can be all eaten up inside with needing them—and they simply don’t need you. That’s all there is to it, and neither of you can do anything about it. And they’ll be the same way with someone else, and someone else will be the same way about you and it goes on and on—this desperate need—and only once in a rare million do the same two people...
It felt like losing your co-rememberer meant losing the memory itself, as if the things we’d done were less real and important than they had been hours before. ― John Green, The Fault in Our Stars
“It was nice - in the dark and the quiet… and her eyes looking back, like there was something in me worth seeing.” ― John Green, Paper Towns
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unrequited love can be survived in a way that...
“I found myself thinking about President William McKinley, the third American...”
– John Green, Looking for Alaska
“I’m not saying that everything is survivable. Just that everything except the last thing is.” ― John Green, Paper Towns
fuck
