— Neil Gaiman, The Ocean at the End of the Lane

“I went away in my head, into a book. 

That was where I went whenever 

real life was too hard or too inflexible.”

― Rumi, Night and Sleep

“An eye is meant to see things.

The soul is here for its own joy.

A head has one use: For loving a true love.

Feet: To chase after.

Love is for vanishing into the sky. The mind,

for learning what men have done and tried to do.

Mysteries are not to be solved: The eye goes blind

when it only wants to see why.

A lover is always accused of something.

But when he finds his love, whatever was lost

in the looking comes back completely changed.”

― Jason Mraz

“I’ve come to the conclusion that people who wear headphones while they walk, are much happier, more confident, and more beautiful individuals than someone making the solitary drudge to work without acknowledging their own interests and power.”

Rumi

A strange passion is moving in my head.
My heart has become a bird
which searches in the sky.
Every part of me goes in different directions.
Is it really so
that the one I love is everywhere?

— Sara Quin

“I don’t think people understand how stressful it is to explain what’s going on in your head when you don’t even understand it yourself.”

— Mignon McLaughlin

“The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime”

Empty pockets never held anyone back.

Empty pockets never held anyone back. Only empty heads 

and empty hearts can do that. ~Norman Vincent Peale

— Thomas Cardinal Wolsey

“Be very, very careful what you put into that head, 

because you’ll never, ever get it out.”

— Edgar Allan Poe, Complete Writings

“I remained too much inside my head and ended up losing my mind.”

For matters

For matters of self, use your head. 

For matters of others, use your heart.

I misunderstood the meaning of the Nobel prize.

When I was a kid, I misunderstood the meaning of the Nobel prize. In my head I spelled it like “noble”, and I thought that the prize was reserved for people who were knights or people who were very royal. My world was split into this unattainable idea of people being royal and everyone else being, well, very normal and boring. So I thought I couldn’t really get a noble prize in anything. I also thought that the prize was a very exciting package. Like horses, or bubble machines that made massive bubbles, popping candy or maybe a plane ticket around the world. That would have been a very awesome noble prize. Again, because I was not a knight (and I also thought only boys could be knights) I really didn’t believe that I would live to see these glorious things. When I was a teenager, my English teacher showed me a poem written by a Nobel laureate. It was quite a revelation to my mind, that someone who writes could eventually rise into nobility. So I told myself that I’d win one of those noble prizes one day. And I started to write things down.

I was cleaning out my basement junk drawers and found old notes that I had written to myself. I’d made sketches of what I thought were noble things to write about. Among them were: world peace, homes for animals, food for all people, books and pencils and words for little children. These were noble prizes. T h e y   s t i l l   a r e.

Feeling pathetic

He will not disappear out of my head.

I go in to his facebook all the time to see if any girl has written to him or to look through his pictures for the fifth time that day.

I want to tell everybody I meet about him, but really there is nothing to say.

I know all about him and he does not even know my first name.

I can not help that he is the most good-looking guy I've ever seen and he manages to show up wherever I am.

this is a fact.

“Keep your head held high, you’re 

amazing and don’t let anyone tell 

you otherwise.”

loving someone too much, more than you want, engulfed

go away

in my head
there are voices
whispering
go away

Our eyes are placed in the front of our head because....

Our eyes are placed in the front of 

our head because it's better to look

 forward, then to look back.

One sh*t at a time.

When your head is full of shit - take a break and sort it out. One shit at a time. 

-Satchel Paige

Never let your head hang down. 

Never give up and sit down and grieve. 

Find another way.

People think I’m so innocent…

People think I’m so innocent… 

if only they knew 

what really goes 

through my head.

Einstein said,