Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal.
“Sometimes the easiest way is the hard way.”
—John Finn
December 2010
“There are better things ahead than any that we leave behind.”
—C.S. Lewis
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh (via comeseeinsidemybones)
“Try not to be a man of success, but a man of value.”
—Albert Einstein
“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
—Bob Dylan (via littlemiss)
“Quality is never an accident. It is always the result of intelligent effort.”
—John Ruskin
“It’s how you deal with failure that determines how you achieve success.”
—David Feherty
“I would rather five people knew my work and thought it was good work, than five million knew me and were indifferent.”
—Colin Firth
“The best things in life are nearest: Breath in your nostrils, light in your eyes, flowers at your feet, duties at your hand, the path of right just before you. Then do not grasp at the stars, but do life’s plain, common work as it comes, certain that daily duties and daily bread are the sweetest things in life.”
—Robert Louis Stevenson (via justbesplendid)
“You can’t go through life thinking everyone you meet will one day let you down.”
—Angels in the Outfield (via girlmeets-world)
“I know what it’s like to want to die. How it hurts to smile. How you try to fit in but you can’t. How you hurt yourself on the outside to try to kill the thing on the inside.”
—Girl, Interrupted (via mountainsmakeyoucrazy)
“Class is much more than Marx’s definition of relationship to the means of production. Class involves your behavior, your basic assumptions, how you are taught to behave, what you expect from yourself and from others, your concept of a future, how you understand problems and solve them, how you think, feel, act.”
—The Last Straw, Rita Mae Brown
“The biggest scars are unseen and unremembered, always from a smile you forgot long ago. We would never get anything done otherwise.”
—I Wrote This For You: The Covering Of The Ground (via kari-shma)
“In this lake of shit we’ve made, I refuse to sink. We cant live our lives this way; Not today, If this sea of metaphoric bullshit stays, I won’t sink.”
—The Wonder Years
“Perfection is not just about control; it’s also about letting go.”
—Black Swan
“A year. A thousand kisses. And now a thousand one, a thousand two. There are so many other places we could have ended up, but I have to believe none of them would have felt this right. “All I want is you” is not entirely true. I want so much more, and with you I think I can get it.”
—David Levithan
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
—Woody Allen (via nothingmuchtotell)
“I feel my heart ache, but I’ve forgotten what that feeling means.”
—Choke, Chuck Palahniuk (via nothingmuchtotell)
“Just because you cynically deconstruct everyone’s world view doesn’t make you smarter than anyone else. Cynicism is not a marker of intelligence. You can list down all the reasons why the World sucks balls and it still won’t make you any closer to understanding it.”
—Joey Abuyuan
“Things break all the time. Glass, and dishes, and fingernails. Cars and contracts and potato chips. You can break a record, a hose, a dollar. You can break the ice. There are coffee breaks and lunch breaks and prison breaks. Day breaks, waves break, voices break. Chains can be broken. So can silence, and fever.”
—Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care (via daniellekiemel)
“We do not grow absolutely, chronologically. We grow sometimes in one dimension, and not in another; unevenly. We grow partially. We are relative. We are mature in one realm, childish in another. The past, present, and future mingle and pull us backward, forward, or fix us in the present. We are made up of layers, cells, constellations.”
—Anaïs Nin (via nothingmuchtotell)
“You’re waiting for a train, a train that will take you far away. You know where you hope this train will take you, but you can’t be sure. But it doesn’t matter - because we’ll be together.”
—Inception (via mountainsmakeyoucrazy)
“- I’m just afraid if I do trust someone, I’ll get my heart broken.
- I understand. I had a nice pair of Rollerblades. I was afraid to wreck them, so I kept them in a box. Do you know what happened? I outgrew them. I never wore them outside. Only in my room a few times.
- A person’s heart and feelings are very different than skates.
- They’re kind of the same thing. If you won’t use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it’ll be like my Rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won’t be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.” —Home Alone 2 (via misswallflower)
- I understand. I had a nice pair of Rollerblades. I was afraid to wreck them, so I kept them in a box. Do you know what happened? I outgrew them. I never wore them outside. Only in my room a few times.
- A person’s heart and feelings are very different than skates.
- They’re kind of the same thing. If you won’t use your heart, who cares if it gets broken? If you just keep it to yourself, maybe it’ll be like my Rollerblades. When you do decide to try it, it won’t be any good. You should take a chance. Got nothing to lose.” —Home Alone 2 (via misswallflower)
“I like intelligent women. When you go out, it shouldn’t be a staring contest.”
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Frank Sinatra
“And when at last you find someone to whom you feel you can pour out your soul, you stop in shock at the words you utter— they are so rusty, so ugly, so meaningless and feeble from being kept in the small cramped dark inside you so long.”
—Sylvia Plath (via misswallflower)
“Will they know our hearts
when they tell our story?
Can they paint our love?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
when they tell our story?
Can they paint our love?” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“It’s just as painful not to love as it is to love, so you should at least be with him and get fucked and be loving. You’re going to be in pain either way – at least be in pain and have some romance.”
—Kelly Cutrone (via motels)
“Hear no evil or speak no evil, and you won’t be invited to cocktail parties.”
—Oscar Wilde
“Nothing is more damaging to you than to do something that you believe is wrong.”
—Unknown
“Vitality shows in not only the ability to persist, but the ability to start over.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald
“Champions are propelled by desire, not compelled by fear.”
—Denis Waitley
“Success is achieved by development of our strengths, not by elimination of our weakness.”
—Marilyn Vos Savant
“The sea is nothing but a library of all the tears in history.”
—Lemony Snicket, The End. (via spiracles)
“Sometimes when I look at you, I feel I’m gazing at a distant star.
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” —South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
It’s dazzling, but the light is from tens of thousands of years ago.
Maybe the star doesn’t even exist any more. Yet sometimes that light seems more real to me than anything.” —South of the Border, West of the Sun, Haruki Murakami
“Beauty is but the conscious sum of all our perversions.”
—Salvador Dalí (via wine-loving-vagabond)
“I want so badly to believe that there is truth, that love is real and I want life in every word to the extent that its absurd.”
—Clark Gable, The Postal Service
“Did you ever look at a picture of yourself and see a stranger in the background? It makes you wonder how many people have pictures of you.”
—One Tree Hill (via daniellekiemel)
