February 2012
28 posts
“The simple fact is that people who achieve excellence in their fields didn’t...”
– Don’t Follow Your Dream by Harrison Solow (via crimsun)
“It is good to love many things, for therein lies the true strength, and...”
– Vincent van Gogh (via oxane)
“The idea is to write it so that people hear it and it slides through the brain...”
– Maya Angelou (via libraryland)
“Nothing is more satisfying than to write a good sentence. It is no fun to write...”
– BARBARA W. TUCHMAN (via ilovereadingandwriting)
Why We Hide Emotional Pain (Leon F. Seltzer,... →
psychotherapy:
Excerpt (via Psychology Today):
“Not to show vulnerability is typically viewed as a strength, a “demonstration” of character. But in reality the major motives in hiding our emotions are (as I’ve already indicated) fear-based. We’re just afraid to look weak or susceptible to others. Paradoxically, though, unashamedly disclosing our vulnerability can actually be a deliberate...
“Make the most of yourself, for that is all there is of you.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via kari-shma)
“You know what I think hurts the most? The feeling of being replaced. It’s like...”
– JoAnne Golden (via eletheowl)
“I’ve never minded it,” he went on. “Being lost, that is. I had always thought...”
– Cassandra Clare (via quotewhore)
“I begin to realise how important it was to be an enthusiast in life. He taught...”
– My Uncle Oswald by Roald Dahl (via creatingaquietmind)
daydreamsandtouristtraps:
A person is not a prize. You can’t earn or win them by being good enough, fast enough, smart enough or special enough. You can’t keep them on the mantle to remind you of how good, fast, smart or special you were. They do not prove your worth.
Things a Person is Not | Thought Catalog
“I’d rather be around a passionate nerd than a non-passionate cool person....”
– (via wrists)
“Ninety five percent of the time, everything is actually okay in the moment. What...”
– Emma Stone (via anditslove)
“Wisdom comes from experience. Experience is often a result of lack of wisdom.”
– Terry Pratchett (via kari-shma)
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply...”
– Lao Tzu (via girlwithoutwings)
“‘When you love someone… truly love them, friend or lover, you lay your heart...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (via black-wolves)
“Love brings you face to face with your self. It’s impossible to love another if...”
– John Pierrakos (via nunquam-singularis)
“Love is not what the mind thinks, but what the heart feels.”
– Greg Evans (via quote-book)
“I’m in love with you, and I’m not in the business of denying myself the simple...”
– John Green (via loveyourchaos)
“Life and the world is made up of statistics. People say that it’s entirely...”
– Three Things I Love About The World, Everyday Isa
(via themorninglight)
“it takes courage to grow up and become who we really are.”
– e.e. cummings (via loveandmixtapes)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via eletheowl)
“Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of...”
– Carl Jung (via eletheowl)
“Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via kari-shma)
January 2012
57 posts
“Life is either a daring adventure or nothing. To keep our faces toward change...”
– Helen Keller (via soul-surfer)
“What can I do with my happiness? How can I keep it, conceal it, bury it where I...”
– Anaïs Nin (via light-essence)
“I’ve learned that no matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does...”
– Maya Angelou (via julie911)
“To stay with that shakiness - to stay with a broken heart, with a rumbling...”
– Thoughtful words by Pema Chodron (via onherway)
“The reason death sticks so closely to life isn’t biological necessity, —it’s...”
– Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
“But I think it’s very healthy to spend time alone. You need to know how to be...”
– Olivia Wilde (via eletheowl)
“Nothing builds self-esteem and self-confidence like accomplishment.”
– Thomas Carlyle (via kari-shma)
“Why are you sad?”
“Because you speak to me in words, and I look at you with...”
– Anna Karina, Pierrot Le Fou (via baby-goth)
“I’ve never forgotten him. Dare I say I miss him? I do. I miss him. I still see...”
– Piscine Molitor Patel, Life of Pi, Yann Martel (via nubivagantmusings)
“Perhaps the feelings that we experience when we are in love represent a normal...”
– Anton Checkhov (via eletheowl)
“Generally, by the time you are real, most of your hair has been loved off, and...”
– “The Velveteen Rabbit” by Margery Williams (via julie911)
“Most people are about as happy as they make up their minds to be.”
– Abraham Lincoln (via kari-shma)
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul,...”
– Sylvia Plath (via blua)
“Couples are jigsaw puzzles that hang together by touching in just enough points....”
– Diane Ackerman (via eletheowl)
“Don’t be reckless with other people’s hearts, and don’t put up with people that...”
– Kurt Vonnegut (via 24ribs)
“The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our...”
– Sophocles (megha1027)
“To live a creative life, we must lose our fear of being wrong.”
– Joseph Chilton Pearce (via saddest-summer)
“They wouldn’t call it falling in love if you didn’t get hurt sometimes, but you...”
– Gregory Thomas Garcia (via eletheowl)