July 2010
4 posts
Time has a wonderful way of showing us what really matters.
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The most basic and powerful way to connect to another person is to listen. Just...
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Be miserable. Or motivate yourself. Whatever has to be done, it’s always your...
April 2010
9 posts
There’s a difference between what is right, and what feels right.
– Deb Caletti (Submitted by todayithought) (via quote-book)
I refuse to settle for something less than great. And if it takes a lifetime,...
– Dolly Parton (via quote-book)
I refuse to settle for something less than great. And if it takes a lifetime,...
Never pretend to a love which you do not actually feel, for love is not ours to...
If a girl looks swell when she meets you, who gives a damn if she’s late?...
You begin saving the world by saving one person at a time; all else is grandiose...
March 2010
28 posts
The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on...
Make your mistakes work for you, by learning from them.
Look at life through the windshield, not the rear-view mirror.
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It’s so easy in the past tense.
I do not choose the right word. I get rid of the wrong one.
Scar tissue is stronger than regular tissue. Realize the strength. Move on.
Taken out of context I must seem so strange.
Humans have a knack for choosing precisely the things that are worst for them.
The moment I saw you I knew it would be the closest I would get to being close....
– Effy Stonem (via nostalgicdreams) (via suzywire) (via five5five)
When you love someone…you open yourself up to suffering, that’s the sad truth....
– Bones (via quote-book)
If there’s one thing family does, it is to believe, against all odds, in the...
My mission in life is not merely to survive, but to thrive; and to do so with...
– Maya Angelou (via kari-shma) (via quote-book)
February 2010
54 posts
When someone is in your heart, they’re never truly gone. They can come back to...
– Mitch Albom (For One More Day) (via justbesplendid) (via quote-book)
A good book should leave you… slightly exhausted at the end. You live several...
– William Styron, interview, Writers at Work, 1958 (via fatalistichues) (via quote-book)
When you’re alone, you can make any choice you want. But when someone loves you,...
– Iron Jawed Angels: Alice Paul
Develop an interest in life as you see it; the people, things, literature,...
“What does it feel like to be a woman? To be formed around a central core...