November 2011
16 posts
“Whatever my God ordains is right,
Here shall my stand be taken;
Though sorrow, or need, or death be mine,
Yet I am not forsaken,
My Father’s care circles me there,
He holds me that I shall not fall,
And so to Him I leave it all.” —
Here shall my stand be taken;
Though sorrow, or need, or death be mine,
Yet I am not forsaken,
My Father’s care circles me there,
He holds me that I shall not fall,
And so to Him I leave it all.” —
Samuel Rodigast, “Whatever My God Ordains Is Right”
Girl In The War
Josh Ritter
Girl In The War - Josh Ritter
THIS SONG. Tonight. With great friends.
I. Can’t. Wait.
Josh Ritter is probably the most joyful, grateful performer I’ve ever seen. And I’M grateful because one of my friends gave me an extra ticket. Ahhhh!
“If, in fact, psychological development occurs only in interaction with other peope, do we not all have the responsibility to be responsive to others? Who else will do this for us if not each other?”
—Jean Baker Miller, M.D. and Irene Pierce Stiver, Ph.D. in The Healing Connection: How Women Form Relationships in Therapy and in Life
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land
Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desart. Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,
The hand that mocked them and the heart that fed:
And on the pedestal these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:
Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare
The lone and level sands stretch far away.
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“That is part of the beauty of all literature. You discover that your longings are universal longings, that you’re not lonely and isolated from anyone. You belong.”
—
F. Scott Fitzgerald
(via herewecollide)
and this is why I study literature.
“A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasure of his species must become his own.”
—
Percy Bysshe Shelley, A Defence of Poetry
Empathy. It comes naturally to some, but to others it is a necessary skill.
“Close some doors. Not because of pride, but because that no longer fits your life.”
—Paolo Coelho (via hellocam )
