It's an Ancient Russian Proverb

(I doubt it's one that you've heard)

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I’m going to try saying some crazy things to you, and you listen crazily—how about it? - Zuangzi
Posts tagged “life”

no blues today, but I am a James River girl. funny how the places you live get into your blood.

sfmoma:

A nice reminder to cultivate the art of living from the one and only Marcel Duchamp!

(via SFMOMA)

abiss:

Yes. 

abiss:

Yes. 

planting time

I don’t have any money, and I don’t have much surety about anything in my life right now. but with sweat, love, and determination, I can make my garden grow.

Laputa: Castle in the Sky — 天空の城ラピュタ (Tenkou no Shiro Rabyuta) 1986 film written and directed by Hayao Miyazaki.

love does weird things to you

I haven’t always been down with love, I’ll be the first to admit, but I’m definitely love’s fool now.

and I have to admit to being a happier person for it.

sometimes I find this upsetting and sometimes comforting….

(Source: monicamelquiades)

When it’s over, I want to say: all my life I was a bride married to amazement.

New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

I tell you this
to break your heart,
by which I mean only
that it break open and never close again
to the rest of the world.

New and Selected Poems, Mary Oliver (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)

love love love love love love love Mary Oliver and her incredible, heart-breaking, wonderful way of embracing life in all it’s parts.

This planet has — or rather had — a problem, which was this: most of the people living on it were unhappy for pretty much all of the time. Many solutions were suggested for this problem, but most of these were largely concerned with the movement of small green pieces of paper, which was odd because on the whole it wasn’t the small green pieces of paper that were unhappy.

Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

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