April 2012
28 posts
The other day, some guy at work was opining on about how all women are either Audreys or Marilyns. I really disliked this on both macro (seriously, Random Dude? ALL women EVER?) and micro (personal) levels. I am not quirky, girlish elegance; I am not damaged, ethereal sensuality. I know women of both types, and sometimes I envy or pity them. Just as I’m sure they do me, right back.
It just...
“I urge you to please notice when you are happy, and exclaim or murmur or think...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via machimasu)
le cygne noir: psychotherapy: The Brain on Love... →
psychotherapy:
The Brain on Love (New York Times)
via NYTimes.com:
by Diane Ackerman
A RELATIVELY new field, called interpersonal neurobiology, draws its vigor from one of the great discoveries of our era: that the brain is constantly rewiring itself based on daily life. In the end,…
“Please always know that behind all of my human behaviors
behind the best of me...”
– Elizabeth Lesser as spoken by Ram Dass from Broken Open. Courtesy of The Beauty We Love. (via crashinglybeautiful)
“I will remember the kisses
our lips raw with love
and how you gave me...”
– Charles Bukowski, Raw With Love (via silentsouls)
“… It is unbearably painful For the soul to love silently. ”
—Anna Akhmatova, from The Complete Poems (translated by Judith Hemschemeyer)
(Source: growing-orbits, via momentofchange3)
“April is the cruellest month, breeding
Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing...”
– T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
