September 2010
24 posts
“The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...”
– Barbara Kingsolver (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest...”
– Louis E. Boone (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
“You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life, no...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via kari-shma)
“Whenever you want to achieve something, keep your eyes open, concentrate and...”
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Step Back and Breathe
One thing I must always remember: even my bad days never last more than a few hours.
It’s hard when you’re blinded by sadness, anger, regret, guilt, frustration - any emotion that turns a regular day upside down - to see past what you feel. Whenever I’m in the moment of a large dose of any of those emotions, I immediately want to do something drastic. When things get bad, my legs...
“Every day the opportunity exists to change your life. But most days, the idea of...”
– Jill A Davis, Girls’ Poker Night (via quotewhore) (via itookadeepbreath)
“Let your hopes, not your hurts, shape your future.”
– (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma) (via itookadeepbreath)
“Sometimes it’s the fight that makes a thing worth having.”
– Richard Paul Evans (via kari-shma)
“In the space between yes and no, there’s a lifetime. It’s the difference between...”
– Jodi Picoult, Change of Heart (via quotewhore) (via itookadeepbreath)
“Inspiration gives no warnings.”
– Gabriel Garcia Marquez (via janettt)
“What is the point of being alive if you don’t at least try to do something...”
– John Green | Submitted by: bornonthe17th (via quote-book)
The Romeo and Juliet Syndrome
In a slightly cynical journal entry a few years ago, I ranted about fairytale love and how, although it may exist, only does in inevitable tragic endings or fiction. There is no couple who has been married for 50+ years still floating on the limerence high. The only true stories I’ve ever heard of that kind of feeling were those stories that fall into the One That Got Away category.
In the...
“The most beautiful people we have known are those who have known defeat, known...”
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via moronicbeauty)
“Be as you wish to seem.”
– Socrates (via girlwithoutwings)
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and...”
– Sylvia Plath
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There is no greater agony than bearing an untold story inside you.
-Maya Angelou
“I can never stand still. I must explore and experiment. I am never satisfied...”
– Walt Disney (via quote-book)
My Remedy for Endless Thoughts
My life, simply put, is organized chaos. I may seem scattered and erratic, but I’m very much like the eye of a hurricane. All this chaos and insanity is circling around me, but I’m somehow calm in the middle of it.
When I lived at home my mom used to clean my room for me (I know, I know, I’m the youngest - what can I say?) Although I appreciated this, I noticed that I would...
“If you do not express your own original ideas, if you do not listen to your own...”
– Rollo May | (via Star of the Sea) (via quote-book)
“What lies behind us and what lies ahead of us are tiny matters compared to what...”
– – Ralph Waldo Emerson (via redl3andit) (via itookadeepbreath)
“Too much sanity may be madness and the maddest of all - to live life like it is...”
– Miguel de Cervantes (via quote-book)
“The soul should always stand ajar, ready to welcome the ecstatic experience.”
– Emily Dickinson via lovelyasadream (via quote-book)
“Either write something worth reading or do something worth writing.”
– Benjamin Franklin
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