The Greek word for ‘return’ is nostos. Algos means ‘suffering.’ So nostalgia is the suffering caused by an unappeased yearning to return.
Milan Kundera (via tattoolit)
I began to realize how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. If you are interested in something, no matter what it is, go at it full speed ahead. Embrace it with both arms, hug it, love it and above all become passionate about it. Lukewarm is no good. Hot is no good, either. White hot and passionate is the only thing to be.
Roald Dahl (via emotional-algebra)
What on earth can you do on this earth but catch at whatever comes near you, with both your hands, until your fingers are broken?
Tennessee Williams (via likeafieldmouse)
(Source: fuckyeahexistentialism)
1. I Always Go Back to Me (2010)
2. Please Take Care of This (2009)
3. Be With and Without Me (2009)
4. Face the Whole (2011)
5. Blow your Mind (2010)
6. Bright Darkness (2010)
7. You are Now (2013)
8. Faces that I Have to Face Before I Sleep (2010)
9. The Inner Inside (2009)
10. Weight of You (2009)
I love this world because it is imperfect. It is imperfect, and that’s why it is growing; if it was perfect it would have been dead. Growth is possible only if there is imperfection. I would like you to remember again and again, I am imperfect, the whole universe is imperfect, and to love this imperfection, to rejoice in this imperfection is my whole message.
Osho (via emotional-algebra)
Jen Gotch - Defaced (2010)
Events are temporary, but my memory is very persistant.
Alexander Gutke - Subtraktion No. 4 (2007) - Stamp on paper
The only thing I know is this: I am full of wounds and still standing on my feet.
Nikos Kazantzakis (via hellanne)
(Source: tattooedmafia)
Social Work; Our Duties
Today I went through a dead woman’s belongings in a damp, poorly lit basement. The family asked for any money or other valuable belongings to be pulled out, as they didn’t want anything else. I spent two hours touching every piece of clothing she had ever worn, smelling all of her perfume neatly organized in rose colored glass. I held birthday cards to her children and grandchildren. And when I was done, I packed her whole life back into boxes to collect dust.
(Source: likeafieldmouse)
Last night I dreamed about you. What happened in detail I can hardly remember, all I know is that we kept merging into one another. I was you, you were me. Finally you somehow caught fire.
Franz Kafka (via likeafieldmouse)
![victoriousvocabulary:
PEJORISM
[noun]
1. a pessimistic attitude; a constant sense of impending doom.
2. the belief that the world is becoming worse.
3. the opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is growing worse.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m914z7TIJf1r47bczo1_500.jpg)
PEJORISM
[noun]
1. a pessimistic attitude; a constant sense of impending doom.
2. the belief that the world is becoming worse.
3. the opinion or doctrine that everything in nature is growing worse.
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DESTITUTE
[adjective/verb]
1. Social Welfare: lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished.
2. completely lacking; deprived or bereft of.
3. abandoned or deserted.
Etymology: from Latin dēstitūtus - forsaken, from dēstituere - to leave alone, from statuere - to place.](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m86g2zpAnl1r47bczo1_500.jpg)
DESTITUTE
[adjective/verb]
1. Social Welfare: lacking the means of subsistence; totally impoverished.
2. completely lacking; deprived or bereft of.
3. abandoned or deserted.
Etymology: from Latin dēstitūtus - forsaken, from dēstituere - to leave alone, from statuere - to place.
