February 2012
25 posts
Six types of Love
Eros
a passionate physical and emotional love based on aesthetic enjoyment; stereotype of romantic love
Ludus a love that is played as a game or sport; conquest; may have multiple partners at once
Storge an affectionate love that slowly develops from friendship, based on similarity
Pragma love that is driven by the head, not the heart
Mania obsessive love; experience great emotional highs...
“I see nothing. We may sink and settle on the waves. The sea will drum in my...”
– Virginia Woolf, The Waves (via lavandula)
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“For fish death takes the shape of the beautiful white gull with widespread wings...”
– Anna Kamienska
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Octonaires on the World's Vanity and Inconstancy.
Ice glitters like it’s good.
The whole world glitters,
sped towards ends,
we all fall in.
Under the ice is water.
But under the world, between you
and the everything
of your vanishing …
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Fire, air, water, and earth
still turning, spilling into each other.
He tuned the world tense,
made the elements restless
so any happiness we might contrive...
“I will write peace on your wings and you will fly all over the world.”
– Sadako Sasaki (via moreofamore)
mythologyofblue:
And it seemed to me that there were fires Flying till dawn without number And I never found out things - those Strange eyes of his - what colour? Everything trembling and singing and Were you my enemy or my friend, Winter was it or summer?
―Anna Akhmatova
“Why waste money on psychotherapy when you can listen to the B Minor Mass?”
– Michael Torke (via classicalliterature)
“Words move, music moves
Only in time; but that which is only living
Can only...”
– T. S. Eliot, from “Burnt Norton”, in Four Quartets (via pauses-and-silences)
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“Lately, everywhere I turn people seem interested in yoga. “Do you ‘do’ yoga?”...”
– JR (via badgrrrlmeat)
“I learned this, at least, by my experiment: that if one advances confidently in...”
– Henry David Thoreau (via moreofamore)
My bets for today's Superbowl:
Ireland will win, but Krum will catch the Snitch.
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"Dating A Yoga Goddess" →
A manual of sorts for potential suitors. :)
Dancing
to Elvis in my room naked. Very excited for today, with and without reason.