“Success is how high you bounce when you hit the bottom.”
—George S. Patton
May 2010
“How we need that security! How we need another soul to cling to, another body to keep us warm. To rest and trust; to give your soul in confidence: I need this, I need someone to pour myself into.”
—Slyvia Plath
“Friendship is born at that moment when one person says to another: “What! You too? I thought I was the only one.”
—CS Lewis
“Don’t let the fear of the time it will take to accomplish something stand in the way of your doing it. The time will pass anyway; we might just as well put that passing time to the best possible use.”
—Earl Nightingale
“Music takes us out of the actual and whispers to us dim secrets that startle our wonder as to who we are, and for what, whence, and whereto.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
“Tell them to look up. Tell them to remember the stars. The stars are always there, but we miss them in the dirt and clouds. We miss them in the storms. Tell them to remember hope. We have hope.”
—Renee Yohe
“The harder you try to forget something, the more you think about it subconsciously,”
—Sigmund Freud
“I don’t want to survive; I want to live.”
—Wall-E
“If you must play, decide on three things at the start: the rules of the game, the stakes, and the quitting time.”
—Chinese proverb
“Nobody dies a virgin; life fucks us all.”
—Kurt Cobain
“The world breaks everyone, and afterwards, some are strong at the broken places…”
—Ernest Hemingway
“Think left and think right and think low and think high. Oh, the thinks you can think up if only you try!”
—Dr. Seuss, Oh, the Thinks You Can Think! (via justbesplendid)
“I’m less interested in why we’re here. I’m wholly devoted to while we’re here.”
—Erika Harris (via justbesplendid)
“Try on? You try on a sweater at the mall. You try on your best friend’s bra and you smile on the inside because yours are bigger and better. You don’t try on a person!”
—Olive Snook, Pushing Daisies (via quote-book)
April 2010
“In movies, the good guy gets the girl. In real life, it’s usually the prick.”
—Nick, Youth in Revolt (via followandreblog)
It's About....
It’s about love, compassion, kindness, and faith. It has nothing to do with luck. You get what you give, so give good.
“He was my cream, and I was his coffee -
And when you poured us together, it was something.” —Josephine Baker (via justbesplendid)
And when you poured us together, it was something.” —Josephine Baker (via justbesplendid)
“There’s one sad truth in life I’ve found
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox (via justbesplendid)
While journeying east and west -
The only folks we really wound
Are those we love the best.
We flatter those we scarcely know,
We please the fleeting guest,
And deal full many a thoughtless blow
To those who love us best.” —Ella Wheeler Wilcox (via justbesplendid)
“The longer I live the more beautiful life becomes.”
—Frank Lloyd Wright
“The heart is the thousand strinqed instrument that can only be tuned with love.”
—Unknown
“Always remember that the future comes one day at a time.”
—Dean Acheson
“We would worry less about what others think of us if we realized how seldom they do.”
—Ethel Barrett
“Through joy and through sorrow, I wrote. Through hunger and through thirst, I wrote. Through good report and through ill report, I wrote. Through sunshine and through moonshine, I wrote. What I wrote is unnecessary to say.”
—Edgar Allan Poe (via livingforcinta) (via daniellekiemel)
“Life: in all its pain, misery, grandiosity and glory. I sing for myself, yet if others truly find inspiration through my words, then I have accidentally done something brilliant in my life”
—John O’Callaghan (The Maine) (via quote-book)
“The dance is a poem of which each movement is a word.”
—Mata Hari (via misswallflower)
“Truth is like a blanket that always leaves your feet cold. You push it, stretch it, it’ll never be enough. You kick at it, beat it, it’ll never cover any of us. From the moment we enter crying to the moment we leave dying, it will just cover your face as you wail and cry and scream.”
—Dead Poets Society
“You’re always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
—Diane von Furstenberg
“You gotta have style. It helps you get up in the morning. It’s a way of life. Without it you’re nobody. I’m not talking about a lot of clothes.”
—Diana Vreeland
“I don’t know. And I don’t know what I don’t know. I’m just… here…and I’m breathing. And my heart is beating, so I guess I’m still alive.”
—(via thisbruisedheart)
“I will be the air,
the sweet breath filling your lungs.
Hold me, please, longer.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
the sweet breath filling your lungs.
Hold me, please, longer.” —Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“Nothing external can have any power over you unless you permit it. Your time is too precious to be sacrificed in wasted days combating the menial forces of hate, jealously, and envy. Guard your fragile life carefully. Only God can shape a flower, but any foolish child can pull it to pieces.”
—Og Mandino
“I remember more the time we spent driving nowhere than the fancy dinner. I remember more the time we spent laughing and drawing than when we stepped on stage. I remember more the silence in each others arms than the conversations about how we felt. I remember more of what I didn’t expect to remember with you.”
—I Wrote This For You
“God asks no man whether he will accept life. That is not the choice. You must take it. The only question is how.”
—Henry Ward Beecher
“Stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone ought to be.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert
“If you run, make sure you’re running towards something. Never away.”
—I Wrote This For You
“If you judge people, you have no time to love them.”
—Mother Teresa
“For where no law is, there is no transgression.”
—Romans 4:15
“The vision is people putting down guns and blades and bottles. The vision is better endings. The vision is the restoration of broken families and broken relationships. The vision is people finding life, finding freedom, finding love. The vision is people breaking cycles, making change. The vision is hope, and hope is real. You are not alone, and this is not the end of your story.”
—To Write Love On Her Arms
“We all know what’s happening here because it’s happened before. Like an avalanche, there’s nothing we can do about it so we don’t even need to speak. But this time, if we’re covered by the ice and snow, I will hold you tight. I will keep you warm.”
—I Wrote This For You
“You give but little when you give of your possessions. It is when you give of yourself that you truly give.”
—Kahlil Gibran
“The feeling of completely giving into your demons is hopeless, but when you can’t climb your way out of such a hole you tend to crouch down and call it home.”
—Nikki Sixx, The Heroin Diaries
“Love is the magician that pulls man out of his own hat.”
—Ben Hecht (via justbesplendid)
But I don't want somebody who's loving everybody. I need a shy guy - he's the kinda guy who'll only be mine.
Shy Guy, Diana King
“I wish it could just be simple, like a retro pop song, “I want you to want me.” Boom. End of story. We all live happily ever after. But it is never really like that, is it?”
—John Tucker Must Die
“It takes a thousand compliments to forget an insult.”
—Unknown (via heytherex) (via quote-book)
Fear
You’re not scared of the dark, you’re scared of what’s in it. You’re not scared of heights, you’re scared of falling. You’re not scared of the people surrounding you, but you’re scared of rejection. You’re not scared to love, you’re scared of not being loved. You’re not scared to try again, you’re just scared of getting hurt for the same reason.
“I have no regrets. I wouldn’t have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”
—Ingrid Bergman (via reluctantbuddha)
“God offers to every mind its choice between truth and repose. Take which you please - you can never have both.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (via justbesplendid)
