Call Down The Hawk — Maggie Stiefvater

“I do not think I’m easy to define. I have a wandering mind. And I’m not anything that you think I am.”

— Syd Barrett (via quotemadness)

“People usually fail when they are on the verge of success. So give as much care to the end as to the beginning; then there will be no failure.”

— Laozi, Daodejing, Feng & English tr. (Ch 64)

“I do not speak as I think, I do not think as I should, and so it all goes on in helpless darkness.”

— Franz Kafka  (via quotemadness)

Aeschylus’ (?) Prometheus Bound (tr. David Grene)

“Incense, with its sweetsmelling perfume and high-ascending smoke, can be compared to a sincere, earnest prayer which, enkindled by the fire of concentration, rises up as a pleasant offering.”

—

Anna Riva;

Magic With Incense and Powders: 850 Rituals and Uses With Chants and Prayers

(via liminalblessings)

September 22. Nothing.

Franz Kafka - Diaries 1914-1923 (Allegedly)

“…dusk is falling, I love you.”

— Marina Tsvetaeva, in a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, from Letters Summer 1926: Pasternak, Tsvetaeva, Rilke (via loveage-moondream)

“Vanity is the fear of appearing original.”

—Daybreak, §365 (excerpt).

“If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it.”

— John Irving, A Prayer for Owen Meany (via quotespile)

“It is madness to hate all roses because you got scratched with one thorn.”

— Antoine de Saint-Exupére