August 2011
“Age is a terrible thief. Just when you’re getting the hang of life, it knocks your legs out from under you and stoops your back”
—‘Water for Elephants’ - Sara Gruen (via quote-book)
July 2011
“The core of literature is the idea of tragedy … You don’t really learn much from the good things that happen to you.”
—Cormac McCarthy on “Connecting Science and Art” (via fictionz)
“Anyone can become angry—that is easy. But to be angry with the right person, to the right degree, at the right time, for the right purpose, and in the right way—this is not easy.”
—Aristotle (via kari-shma)
“In my experience, you will truly serve only what you love, because, as the prophet says, service is love made visible. If you love friends, you will serve your friends. If you love community, you will serve your community. If you love money, you will serve your money. And if you love only yourself, you will serve only yourself. And you will have only yourself.”
— Stephen Colbert (via theangrytherapist)
“You have to stop worrying about finding love again. It will come when it comes. Get comfortable with being alone. It will empower you.”
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Jonathan Tropper, This Is Where I Leave You
and old quote I will always love. i got comfortable, fairly quickly. then someone better than any of the others walked into my life. life.. you is funny. we will play this all by ear.
(via getyourrunningshoeson)
"The 3 C's of life: Choice, Chance, Change. You must make the Choice to take the Chance if you want anything to Change."
“I’m not sentimental—I’m as romantic as you are. The idea, you know, is that the sentimental person thinks things will last—the romantic person has a desperate confidence that they won’t.”
—F. Scott Fitzgerald (via monsieurmademoiselle)
“I have dreamed in my life, dreams that have stayed with me ever after, and changed my ideas; they have gone through and through me, like wine through water, and altered the color of my mind.”
—Emily Brontë (via girlwithoutwings)
I am twenty three.
“Have your adventures, make your mistakes, and choose your friends poorly — all these make for great stories.”
—Chuck Palahniuk (via kari-shma)
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Of all the knowledge that was crammed into my head in college, one of the most important lessons I got was from a young professor in my major who really impressed upon us that when you start out, you are on the bottom of the totem pole and it’s going to be hard. You have to be willing to work harder and longer than everyone around you. Nobody’s going to hand you anything. Having a diploma doesn’t mean you earned anything in the real world yet. Don’t pass up any opportunities and don’t be afraid to share your ideas.
Well, you seem to have already figured that out. Don’t forget it, and I’m sure you’ll go far.
” —(via getyourrunningshoeson)
“I think the mistake is that people commit to who that person is right then and not the person they’re going to become. That’s the art of staying together, is changing together.”
—Justin Timberlake (on marriage), Vanity Fair (via 52hearts)
“There is so much to do and I do so little. Life would be almost perfect here if only when I was pretending to work I always was working. But that is surely not too hard? Look at the stories that wait and wait just at the threshold. Why don’t I let them in? And their place would be taken by others who are lurking just beyond out there - waiting for the chance.”
—Katherine Mansfield, from her Notebooks (via katherine-mansfield)
Oh man there's 2 types of ugly ducklings.
sade:
The ones who become attractive naturally, over time and are dope in the sack because they’re generous with the giving of head and haven’t yet realized that they’re not fat, ugly, bacne freaks anymore.
And the ones who go out of their way to make themselves hot and work hard at it and then once they finally achieve an acceptable level of hotness they turn into giant cunts and develop a Gene Simmons’ sized ego.
I still can’t decide which one the newly sexy Neville Longbottom is.
“I’ll make you smile for the simple fact that I’m good at it. I’ll make you smile so I can just so I can sit and look at it.”
—Slug (via mediocrehappiness)
“Waiting is the most important thing that we can do for the one we love. But it proved one thing to me. As it goes, it can also change our minds.”
—(via iwasborntired)
“If someone wants to lead a double life, they will find a way to do it. And they can promise you things until your nerves unfold and you can finally put up your feet. But it can all be a lie. There are no guarantees, even when people mean what they say at the time. People change their minds. People die. And the hurt is as real as a baseball bat.”
—Stephanie Klein (via kari-shma)
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world, but then I thought there are so many people in the world, there must be someone just like me who feels bizarre and flawed in the same ways I do. I would imagine her, and imagine that she must be out there thinking of me too. Well, I hope that if you are out there and read this and know that, yes, it’s true I’m here, and I’m just as strange as you.”
—Frida Kahlo (via julie911)
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done.”
—Mitch Albom (via shubacca)
I am hours from turning twenty three.
“Love: when everything is just right being in the person’s arms, feeling so comfortable with them. It’s after you’ve had a bad day, that person is the first person you want to talk to and when you have good news or are excited about something, they’re the first person you want to tell. It’s waking up and having them be the first thing on your mind. And when you to go bed at night, they’re the last thing and your mind. The “bad” things about them at most would find annoying, you find cute. When you’re together, the time goes by too fast and you never want to go. No one else can hurt you more, but no one else can make you happier at the same time.”
—(via eletheowl)
“This above all, to refuse to be a victim.”
—Margaret Atwood (via getyourrunningshoeson)
And so it goes.: A good rule: →
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[taught to me by my sister years ago]
If you feel like a guy isn’t treating you right, but you’re still sticking around, and you’re not sure why… imagine your best friend is telling you about a guy that treats her the way this guy is treating you. Would you tell her to stay? No. You would tell…
“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all “Grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get a house. Have a kid, and that’s it.” But the truth is, the world is so much stranger than that. It’s so much darker. And so much madder. And so much better.”
—Doctor Who (via dalekfighter1190)
“Here’s what I think is silly, the idea that jealousy or fidelity is reserved for romance.”
—Boston Legal (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
Under a Read More for length, dialogue from David Foster Wallace’s Infinite Jest.
Descriptions of character movement - to indicate either the speaker or their attitude - when and where deemed necessary.
[Trigger warning: references to depression, disassociation, alcohol and domestic abuse, death.]
“I’m right here for you anytime of day or night, Mario, as you are for me, as I am for Hal and we all are for each other. Right here.”
“Moms?”
“I am right here with my attention completely focused on you.”
“How can you tell if someone’s sad?”
Pursuivre le bonheur.: “I feel like you always tell me the truth. You tell me when it’s right... →
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“I feel like you always tell me the truth. You tell me when it’s right to.”
“Marvelous.”
“I feel like you’re the only one who knows when it’s right to tell. I can’t know for you, so why should I be hurt.”
“Be a fucking human being for once, Boo. I room with you and I hid it from you and let…
“The point of a relationship is to see each other, know each other. The warts, the work in progress. For you to be who you are, what you are, all you are. Trusting that none of it will be rejected.”
—Boston Legal (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
“Depression is the most unpleasant thing I have ever experienced. It is that absence of being able to envisage that you will ever be cheerful again. The absence of hope. That very deadened feeling, which is so very different from feeling sad. Sad hurts but it’s a healthy feeling. It’s a necessary thing to feel. Depression is very different.”
—J. K. Rowling. (via worth-your-time)
“And life is a good thing for a writer. It’s where we get our raw material, for a start. We quite like to stop and watch it.”
—Neil Gaiman (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
“Sometimes it happens like that. You don’t choose what will work. You simply do the best you can each time. And you try to do what you can to increase the likelihood that good art will be created.”
—Neil Gaiman (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
“One short, fairly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don’t you think there’s a time and place for everything?”
—J.D Salinger The Catcher In The Rye (via swearthatiamuptonogood)
“Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.”
—Albert Einstein (via light-essence)
