November 2011
2 posts
“Death is extraordinarily like life when we know how to live. You cannot live...”
– J. Krishnamurti, Freedom from the Known (via universoul)
September 2011
1 post
August 2010
1 post
They were people whose lives were slow, who did not see themselves growing old, or falling sick, or dying, but who disappeared little by little in their own time, turning into memories, mists from other days, until they were absorbed into oblivion.
-Love in the Time of Cholera, Gabriel Garcia Marquez
May 2010
6 posts
“Let everything fall away, and then let’s see what there is.”
“It is as near to you
as your life,
but you can
never wholly know it.”
– The Gardener, Rabindranath Tagore
“ A life that is, like any other, unlike any other. ”
– Neil Gaiman (American Gods) (via quote-book)
April 2010
3 posts
March 2010
15 posts
“Anyone whose goal is ‘something higher’ must expect some day to...”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
“How happy is the blameless vestal’s lot!
The world forgetting, by the...”
– Alexander Pope, Eloisa to Abelard
“You can never really know someone completely. That’s why it’s the most...”
– Libba Bray (via iamblessed)
FOR YINI'S SAKE →
“A team is only as strong as its weakest player.”
- many greats before me
i think this applies to everything in life as well. be it a medical team trying to resuscitate a dying person, company executives thinking of ways to prevent its imminent closure, scientists coming up with the cure…
Words are an impediment to comprehension.
“I always felt that the great high privilege, relief and comfort of friendship...”
– Katherine Mansfield
February 2010
12 posts
“Everybody has a secret world inside of them. All of the people of the world, I...”
– Neil Gaiman (via fuckyeahhappy)
‘Two men, or two women, cannot make a family. That’s impossible. [They] cannot be regarded as a family.’
-Pastor Rony Tan, Lighthouse Evangelism
Me, I see love. Like what a friend would say, ‘This is how love looks like.’
What do you see?
Perspective
Not half empty, but half full.
“There are certain emotions in your body that not even your best friend can...”
– ~ Björk (via casinegro) (via gatekeeper)
Kindness - a form of self display with a benevolent smile on its masked face?
What is the first thing in your mind when you see a beggar at Waterloo street, right outside a temple - a sacred place of worship? A disheveled Indian woman selling tissues at the traffic light junction of Cineleisure? A pregnant woman waddling into a packed MRT compartment?
Question of pragmatism? God, it sounds so...
Only the tip of the iceberg.
“Lars was different when he was with his family. It was as if he went back in...”
– Lars’s wife.
The Sorrows of an American, Siri Hustvedt
When life gives me lemons,
I make lemonade,
and throw them at the bimbos of the world.
