“As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t want to, but too much has happened that we just can’t.”
June 2009
"We forfeit three-fourths of ourselves in order to be like other people."
Arthur Schopenhauer
"Loving someone is a loss of freedom - but one doesn't think of it as loss because one gains so much else."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
"Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
"Jealousy is all the fun you think they had."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
"I'm a born performer and I play the smiling celebrity while anxiety pumps away in my gut... Inevitably, I drank too much, talked too much, smiled too hard, and swallowed back too much bile."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
"Whenever my life seems most unmanageable, I take a bath."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
"Why is it harder to leave a loveless marriage than a loving one? Because a loveless marriage is born of desperation, while a loving one is born of choice."
How to Save Your Own Life by Erica Jong
“Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.”
—Lao Tzu (via thresca)
“‘I’m not allowed to fall in love,’ she said. ‘I’m not allowed to care this much.’ But when you’re staying up late, hoping to God he’s tossing and turning, thinking of you, it’s too late already.”
—(via eletheowl) (via fizzzzy) (via iheartlove) (via everythinglovely)
“Crossing the street, I was hit head-on by a brutal loneliness. I felt dark and hollow. Abandoned, unnoticed, forgotten, I stood on the sidewalk, a nothing, a gatherer of dusk. People hurried past me. And everyone who walked by was happier than I. I felt the old envy. I would have given anything to be one of them.”
—The History of Love (via rightmistakes) (via pretty-bird)
“The truth was I’d given up waiting long ago. The moment had passed, the door between the lives we could have led and the lives we led had shut in our faces.”
—The History of Love (via rightmistakes) (via pretty-bird)
“Most people have a hard time dealing with death, but I’m not most people. It’s the grief that makes me uncomfortable. Not because I’m a killer. Really, I just don’t understand all that emotion, which makes it tough to fake. In those cases, shades come in handy.”
—Dexter Morgan (via sliceoflife) (via quote-book) (via pretty-bird)
“Becoming the new feminine ideal requires just the right combination of insecurity, exercise, bulimia and surgery.”
—G. B. Trudeau (via she-alone) (via thechosenwords)
“It’s pathetic how we can’t live with the things we can’t understand. How we need everything labeled and explained and deconstructed.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via unexcitable) (via enamour) (via thechosenwords)
“People don’t bring out cameras on sad days.”
—Snow Angels (via filmquotes)
“That’s just the trouble with me. I give myself very good advice, but I very seldom follow it.”
—Alice in Wonderland (via littlemiss) (via rightmistakes)
“Myth: Three Americans every year die from rabies. Fact: Four Americans every year die from rabies.”
—Michael Scott (via theofficequotes)
“Each day I choose the truth by which I try to live. I try to be practical, efficient, professional. But I would like to be able always to choose desire as my companion. Not out of obligation but because it is good.”
—Eleven Minutes (Paulo Coelho) (via rightmistakes)
You’re the voice I hear inside my head, the reason that I’m singing. I need to find you, I gotta find you. You’re the missing piece I need, the song inside of me.
(via thisisaheart)
“If you expect nothing from somebody you are never disappointed.”
—The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath) (via rightmistakes)
Lessons from Life
Written By Regina Brett, 90 years old, of The Plain Dealer, Cleveland , Ohio [via: Amazing Posts]
- Life isn’t fair, but it’s still good.
- When in doubt, just take the next small step.
- Life is too short to waste time hating anyone.
- Your job won’t take care of you when you are sick. Your friends and parents will. Stay in touch!
- Pay off your credit cards every month.
- You don’t have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.
- Cry with someone. It’s more healing than crying alone.
- It’s OK to get angry with God. He can take it.
- Save for retirement starting with your first paycheck.
- When it comes to chocolate, resistance is futile.
- Make peace with your past so it won’t screw up the present.
- It’s OK to let your children see you cry.
- Don’t compare your life to others. You have no idea what their journey is all about.
- If a relationship has to be a secret, you shouldn’t be in it.
- Everything can change in the blink of an eye. But don’t worry; God never blinks.
- Take a deep breath. It calms the mind.
- Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.
- Whatever doesn’t kill you really does make you stronger.
- It’s never too late to have a happy childhood. But the second one is up to you and no one else.
- When it comes to going after what you love in life, don’t take no for an answer.
- Burn the candles, use the nice sheets, wear the fancy lingerie. Don’t save it for a special occasion. Today is special..
- Over prepare, then go with the flow.
- Be eccentric now. Don’t wait for old age to wear purple.
- The most important sex organ is the brain.
- No one is in charge of your happiness but you.
- Frame every so-called disaster with these words ‘In five years, will this matter?’
- Always choose life.
- Forgive everyone everything.
- What other people think of you is none of your business.
- Time heals almost everything. Give time time.
- However good or bad a situation is, it will change.
- Don’t take yourself so seriously. No one else does.
- Believe in miracles.
- God loves you because of who God is, not because of anything you did or didn’t do.
- Don’t audit life. Show up and make the most of it now.
- Growing old beats the alternative — dying young.
- Your children get only one childhood.
- All that truly matters in the end is that you loved.
- Get outside every day. Miracles are waiting everywhere.
- If we all threw our problems in a pile and saw everyone else’s,we’d grab ours back.
- Envy is a waste of time. You already have all you need.
- The best is yet to come.
- No matter how you feel, get up, dress up and show up.
- Yield.
- Life isn’t tied with a bow, but it’s still a gift
“Unless commitment is made, there are only promises and hopes… but no plans.”
—Peter Drucker (via littlemiss)
“There’s nothing like the deep breaths after laughing that hard. Nothing in the world like a sore stomach for the right reasons.”
—The Perks of Being a Wallflower (via victoryblues) (via thechosenwords)
“She had to protect herself from herself, from that little girl inside still looking for a happy ending.”
—Marilyn Griffith, Pink (via quotewhore) (via thechosenwords)
“So yes, we could kiss. I could kiss you and you could kiss me. There’s no science, plane ticket or clock stopping us. But if we kiss, it will end the world. And I’ve ended the world before. No one survived. Least of all me.”
—
A hard lesson to learn, but important none the less.
(via sleepanddream)
(via lovebot)
Words of Wisdom by Ginger
I want to be exactly like my mom when I grow up. Not that I have a choice. Here are a few gems of wisdom that she has bestowed upon me over the years.
- When I asked if pregnancy is really as bad as it looks: “It’s worse. Those people who say they feel great after the first trimester are liars. And it’s not a glow. It’s sweat.”
- When she saw me throwing a game of HORSE with a kid I was babysitting: “I never let you guys win at anything growing up. It’s good for kids to get their asses kicked early on. Helps them mentally prepare for the real world.”
- When I was little and would come into my parents’ room in the middle of the night because I had a bad dream: “I’ll give you $1 if you go back to bed.”
- When I told her that it was a REALLY bad dream and I was too scared to go back: “Okay, fine. $2.”
- When I called to get her chile recipe in college: “No, no, no. Don’t ever cook a good meal for your boyfriend. That’s a dangerous precedent to set. J ust let him think you can’t even make a peanut butter and jelly.”
- When I asked at age 6 if she thought my singing voice was getting any better after practicing: “No sweetpea. And it never will.”
- When I gasped in shock at Brooke Shields post-partum depression segment on Oprah: “Yeah, I mean, that sounds about right.”
- When I asked her why I played on a boy’s soccer team in elementary school: “The girls’ fields were twenty minutes further away.”
- When I asked her how she and my dad are still so happy after 30 years: “He travels a lot.”
- When I asked why they took me to Disneyworld for the first time when I was 16: “We were waiting for [my little sister] to be old enough to remember it and then we forgot about it until y’all were in high school. And we had leftover Marriot points.”
- When I asked for a new car when I was sixteen: “Yeah, go out there in the driveway and take a look at that 1984 Volvo. It’s new to you.”
Can I be friends w/your mom? Please.
“At age 20, we worry about what others think of us.
At 40, we don’t care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” —Jock Falkson (via littlemiss)
At 40, we don’t care what they think of us.
At 60, we discover they haven’t been thinking about us at all.” —Jock Falkson (via littlemiss)
“Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned.”
—Buddha (via littlemiss)
Originality is the one thing which unoriginal minds cannot feel the use of.
John Stuart Mill
“I did everything right for someone that does everything wrong.”
—Elliott Smith (via jessicachu) (via witchindarkroom)
Listen
John Mayer - Slow Dancing in a Burning Room
“Do I need to be liked? Absolutely not. I like to be liked. I enjoy being liked. I have to be liked. But it’s not like this, compulsive, need, to be liked. Like my need to be praised.”
—Michael Scott (via theofficequotes)
“Strange how people who suffer together have stronger connections than people who are most content.”
—Bob Dylan (via julie911) (via quote-book) (via everythinglovely)
“I felt a girls heart break through a hug last night. I pray she will never meet another man like him in all of her life. She deserves better then what she was given. I now feel a need to help her pick up the pieces or her broken heart.”
—Myself (via themusician) (via thresca) (via quote-book)
“life, i really believe, is about falling in love. with ideas, with stories, with experiences, mistakes, adventures, poetry, imaginations, old books, new books, movies, music, and, of course, people. everything that is worthwhile in this world is worth falling in love with, and i can’t imagine a better way to live one’s life than to be always head over heels.”
—(via reveriie) (via suzywire) (via inwaves) (via onherway) (via crazybeautiful) (via embracetheclearsky)
“It’s crazy, right?” Trixie interrupted. “To love someone who’s hurt you?”
“It’s crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you,” Janice replied.” —“The Tenth Circle,” Jodi Picoult (via thetasteof) (via mylocusamoenus) (via pacificocean)
“It’s crazier to think that someone who hurts you loves you,” Janice replied.” —“The Tenth Circle,” Jodi Picoult (via thetasteof) (via mylocusamoenus) (via pacificocean)
