February 2010
“I must learn to love the fool in me – the one who feels too much, talks to much, takes too many chances, wins sometimes and loses often, lacks self-control, loves and hates, hurts and gets hurt, promises and breaks promises, laught and cries. It alone protects me against that utterly self-controlled masterful tyrant whom I also harbor and who would rob me of human aliveness, humility, and dignity but for my fool.”
—Theodore Isaac Rubin
so weird
you guys say that amazing little place below is Peter Pan-esque, that’s my fave Disney story and i’m considering a tattoo with a quote from the book.
“
This is what you shall do: Love the earth and sun and the animals, despise riches, give alms to every one that asks, stand up for the stupid and crazy, devote your income and labor to others, hate tyrants, argue not concerning God, have patience and indulgence toward the people, take off your hat to nothing known or unknown or to any man or number of men,
go freely with powerful uneducated persons and with the young and with the mothers of families, read these leaves in the open air every season of every year of your life, re examine all you have been told at school or church or in any book, dismiss whatever insults your own soul,
and your very flesh shall be a great poem and have the richest fluency not only in its words but in the silent lines of its lips and face and between the lashes of your eyes and in every motion and joint of your bod
” —
“
I should have known from the first
I’d be the broken hearted
” —
“Wendy: But, Peter, how do we get to Never Land?
Peter Pan: Fly, of course.
Wendy: Fly?
Peter Pan: It’s easy! All you have to do is to… is to… is to… Ha! That’s funny.
Wendy: What’s the matter? Don’t you know?
Peter Pan: Oh, sure. It’s… It’s just that I never thought about it before. Say, that’s it! You think of a wonderful thought.” —
Peter Pan: Fly, of course.
Wendy: Fly?
Peter Pan: It’s easy! All you have to do is to… is to… is to… Ha! That’s funny.
Wendy: What’s the matter? Don’t you know?
Peter Pan: Oh, sure. It’s… It’s just that I never thought about it before. Say, that’s it! You think of a wonderful thought.” —
“He made the world to be a grassy road
Before her wandering feet.” —The Rose of the World, William Butler Yeats (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
Before her wandering feet.” —The Rose of the World, William Butler Yeats (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“And the rest is rust and stardust.”
—Lolita, Vladimir Nabokov (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“Do you want an adventure now or would you like to have your tea first?”
—J.M. Barrie, Peter Pan (via juneberry) (via fuckyeahpeterpan)
