October 2011
September 2011
“Date a girl who loves cake because she believes in the beauty of happy endings. She can go through platters of appetizers and breeze through the main course, yet no matter how amazing they all are, she remains expectantly hopeful that dessert is on its way. That it is going to be great. That the best is just around the bend, always yet to come.”
—Everyday Isa (via denisecua)
“You don’t get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It’s supposed to be. It’s not something to regret. It’s something to aspire to.”
—Mitch Albom (via thechocolatebrigade)
“But I’d rather look back and regret something I did when I was young and crazy, than look back and regret something I never had the courage to do, and realize it’s too late.”
—― Cherrie Lynn, Rock Me (via justbesplendid)
“You never have to change anything you got up in the middle of the night to write.”
—Saul Bellow (via wordpainting)
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You don’t have to get a job that makes others feel comfortable about what they perceive as your success. You don’t have to explain what you plan to do with your life. You don’t have to justify your education by demonstrating its financial rewards. You don’t have to maintain an impeccable credit score. Anyone who expects you to do any of those things has no sense of history or economics or science or the arts.
You have to pay your own electric bill. You have to be kind. You have to give it all you got. You have to find people who love you truly and love them back with the same truth.
But that’s all.
” —Dear Sugar, The Rumpus (via brklyn)
“Not being assaulted is not a privilege to be earned through the judicious application of personal safety strategies. A woman should be able to walk down the street at 4 in the morning in nothing but her socks, blind drunk, without being assaulted, and I, for one, am not going to do anything to imply that she is in any way responsible for her own assault if she fails to Adequately Protect Herself. Men aren’t helpless dick-driven maniacs who can’t help raping a vulnerable woman. It disrespects EVERYONE.”
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Emily Nagoski. no idea who she is, but i thank her. there is no excuse for rape and anyone who excuses it is insulting both the victim and the rapist. (via rapeisnotajoke)
“The thing I love most about going to a book store is the self-help section is the biggest section because Americans know we’re screwed up. We know it. But we want to get better.”
—Sheikh Hamza Yusuf (via)
“..if you don’t demand what you’re worth and if you don’t communicate it well, you won’t be treated fairly, and the relationship will ultimately die. And if you don’t ask for what you deserve, you won’t ever find out what you’re made of, and what you truly can do. You undermine yourself by not developing your tools and learning what to do with them and what not to do with them; how to use your voice, your brain, your words, your style, your approach, your finesse, everything in your power to get your value. It’s okay to say what you want and what you need. Because if you want a relationship to work, you’ve got to get what you want and what you need. If you don’t, you’re giving, giving, giving, and you end up with nothing. Absolutely nothing.”
—Knowing Your Value - Mika Brzezinski (via getyourrunningshoeson)
“I always felt like I had to be so much better, and in a way that did me a favor. Instead of saying, “Oh they’re not going to give me a good spot in the clubs because I’m a female.” I was going to be so good they couldn’t deny me.”
—Susie Essman (via getyourrunningshoeson)
That's life, you know. Someone breaks your heart. You move on. You live your life. That's what you do.
“Medication isn’t a crutch, it’s a bridge between feeling awful and feeling better. You still have to move your legs to get across the bridge, and that’s the work of therapy.”
—Dr. Ronald Pies, professor of psychiatry at SUNY Upstate Medical University and Tufts University School of Medicine, on how he responds to those who view antidepressants as merely “covering up the real problem” or as “a crutch”. (via psychotherapy)
“Sometimes you are aware when your great moments are happening, and sometimes they rise from the past. Perhaps it’s the same with people.”
—James Salter (via tothepersoninthebelljar)
fish
if i recall—
this is love.
but perhaps
the smoke
fogged my capacity to think through
what it truly means to
care for a person so thorough.you don’t believe my words;
you drink them down like saltwater,
store the unraveled speak of others
in your sore stomach.they lie
where they were meant to die.i don’t lie;
i float.
i’ll steal those ghosts
right out of your throat.
I just tried using Liam Neeson's speech from the movie 'Taken' to get free overnight shipping on a package from Amazon.
- Amazon Customer Service Rep: Sir, we're very sorry but your package won't ship until the 16th of September unless you upgrade your shipping.
- Me: I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for overnight charges, I can tell you I don't have money. But what I do have are a very particular set of skills; skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skill...s that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my package go now, that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you. But if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you, and I will kill you.
- Amazon Customer Service Rep: I'm sorry sir, but you're going to have to talk to my sales manager.
“It’s possible to go on, no matter how impossible it seems, and that in time, the grief lessens. It may not go away completely, but after a while it’s not so overwhelming.”
—Nicholas Sparks, Dear John (via anditslove)
“One writes in order to communicate something to those who are absent.”
—Jacques Derrida, “Signature, Event, Context” (via senseofchampagnechic)
