Leonard Cohen
Find your ‘thing.’ Once you discover this, treasure it. Pursue it. Become it. Spend every waking moment of your life chasing after it with a burning desire to succeed.
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Ring the bells that still can ring
Forget your perfect offering
There is a crack in everything
That’s how the light gets in.
Leonard Cohen (via ofquotesandpoetry)
“I don’t consider myself a pessimist. I think of a pessimist as someone who is waiting for it to rain. And I feel soaked to the skin.” - Leonard Cohen RIP
You’d sing too
if you found yourself
in a place like this
You wouldn’t worry about
whether you were as good
as Ray Charles or Edith Piaf
You’d sing
You’d sing
not for yourself
but to make a self
out of the old food
rotting in the astral bowel
and the loveless thud
of your own breathing
You’d become a singer
faster than it takes
to hate a rival’s charm
and you’d sing, darling
you’d sing too
Leonard Cohen, Book of Longing, 2006. (via odedavna)
All soaked in sex and pressed against
The limits of the sea
I saw there were no oceans left
For scavengers like me.
We made it to the forward deck
I blessed our remnant fleet-
And then consented to be wrecked
A thousand kisses deep.
Leonard Cohen (via noquaaalms)
the odds are there to beat
you win a while and then it’s done
your little winning streak
and summoned now to seal with your invincible defeat
you live your life as if it’s real
a thousand kisses deep
leonard cohen (via and-lachrymose)
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