May 2012
17 posts
Knowing how to be solitary is central to the art of loving. When we can be...
– Bell Hooks, All About Love: New Visions (via thoughtsdetained)
And darling, you should know that I have fantasies about being alone. It’s like...
– Death Cab For Cutie (via berrynice)
Only hang around people that are positive and make you feel good. Anybody who...
– Amy Poehler (via lucifelle)
I love her.
The good times and the bad times both will pass. It will pass. It will get...
– John Green, for Anon (via epicjohngreenquotes)
Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not...
– Deb Caletti (via kari-shma)
Living the focused life is not about trying to feel happy all the time…rather,...
– Winifred Gallagher (via middlenameconfused)
It is not what they take away from you that counts. It’s what you do with what...
– Hubert Humphrey (via kari-shma)
Don’t try to make life a mathematics problem with yourself in the center and...
– Barbara Kingsolver (via julie911)
April 2012
15 posts
Sometimes I think the human heart is like a simple shelf. There’s only so much...
– Jodi Picoult (via beautifullyburning)
There comes a time in a man’s life when to get where he has to go—if there are...
– Bernard Malamud (via thoughtsdetained)
We often feel paralyzed by choice and make no choice. But the thing is, no...
– Chris Guillebeau (via yearslater)
Never pretend that the things you haven’t got are not worth having.
– Virginia Woolf (via kari-shma)
A past may chase you if you try to escape from it… but once you confront it,...
– Kazuya Minekura (via kari-shma)
You have the right to leave someone. But at least tell them why, ‘cause what’s...
– Unknown (via 36974)
We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become...
– Libba Bray (via kari-shma)
So you think you’re a failure, do you? Well, you probably are. What’s wrong with...
– Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (via thoughtsdetained)
To separate oneself from the burden, the angst, the anguish that we all...
– Garth Stein (via kari-shma)
Our goal should be to live life in radical amazement… get up in the morning and...
– Abraham Joshua Heschel (via monsieurmademoiselle)
The very least you can do in your life is figure out what you hope for. And the...
– Barbara Kingsolver, Animal Dreams (via girlwithoutwings)
How can I be reasonable? To me our love was everything and you were my whole...
– W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil (via helplesslyamazed)
But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something...
– Augusten Burroughs (via kari-shma)
The only one you need in your life is that person who shows you he needs you in...
– Oscar Wilde (via quote-book)
March 2012
4 posts
I think there is something, more important than believing: Action! The world is...
– W. Clement Stone (via kari-shma)
I learned the hard way that I cannot always count on others to respect my...
– Unknown (via kari-shma)
If we don’t change, we don’t grow. If we don’t grow, we are not really living....
– Gail Sheehy (via yearslater
)
February 2012
3 posts
Grammar is the difference between knowing your shit and knowing you’re shit.
– My flammable roommate’s fabulous writing professor (via commodore-sparklebutt)
Learn to be what you are, and learn to resign with a good grace all that you are...
– Henri Frederic Amiel (via kari-shma)
January 2012
7 posts
Don’t allow your wounds to transform you into someone you are not.
– Paulo Coelho (via danmariethekoala)
When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and...
– Paulo Coelho (via kari-shma)
Education is the silver bullet. Education is everything. We don’t need little...
– Rob Lowe, The West Wing (via thoughtsdetained)
Word.
Self-respect cannot be hunted. It cannot be purchased. It is never for sale. It...
– Whitney Griswold (via kari-shma)
July 2011
1 post
A person doesn’t have to change who he is to become better.
– Sidney Poitier (via incapacityinc)
June 2011
3 posts
I found that every single successful person I’ve ever spoken to had a turning...
– Brian Tracy (via inspiri)
I am lonely, yet not everybody will do. I don’t know why, some people fill the...
– Anaïs Nin (via kari-shma)