August 2009
55 posts
The measure of who we are is what we do with what we have.
– Vince Lombardi (via kari-shma) (via myserendipities)
What’s worse, new wounds which are so horribly painful or old wounds that...
– Greys Anatomy (via littlemiss)
Sometimes the things you really want sneak in the back door. Notice.
– Mary Anne Radmacher (via myserendipities)
The moment you have in your heart this extraordinary thing called love and feel...
– J. Krishnamurti (via quotewhore) (via tryingtofindthewords)
As we grow older, it becomes difficult to just believe. It’s not that we don’t...
– Now and Then (via littlemiss)
Take risks! That is really what life is about. We must pursue our own happiness....
– Linda Olsson (via thresca)
The things that hurt us teach us.
– Unknown (via myserendipities)
You can kiss your family and friends good-bye and put miles between you, but at...
– Frederick Buechner (via explorers) (via aodouls) (via tryingtofindthewords)
The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write,...
– Alvin Toffler (via julie911) (via quote-book) (via tryingtofindthewords)
People become really quite remarkable when they start thinking that they can do...
– Norman Vincent Peale (via fuckyeahquotes) (via aodouls) (via tryingtofindthewords)
Know yourself fully before making promises to another. Make many mistakes so...
– Jeanette LeBlanc (via maluna) (via quote-book) (via tryingtofindthewords)
Those of us who did make it have an obligation to build again. To teach to...
– Platoon (via filmquotes)
If you want to grow, put yourself at risk every day. These risks do not have to...
– Edward W. Smith (via myserendipities)
Take a chance! All life is a chance. The man who goes furthest is generally the...
– Dale Carnegie (via thresca)
Happiness is not the absence of problems but the ability to deal with them.
– Unknown (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
When you find yourself stressed, ask yourself one question: Will this matter in...
– Catherine Pulsifer (via thresca)
Get rid of imagined guilt. You did the best you could at the time, all things...
– Amy Hillyard Jensen
This is the art of courage: to see things as they are and still believe that the...
– Victoria Lincoln (via myserendipities)
Today I know that I cannot control the ocean tides. I can only go with the flow…...
– Marie Stilkind (via myserendipities)
Your heart is free. Have the courage to follow it.
– Braveheart (via filmquotes) (via quote-book)
..contrary to what the cynics say, distance is not for the fearful, it is for...
– excerpt from Oprah magazine (via thoughtsdetained)
You have within you, right now, everything you need to deal with whatever the...
– Brian Tracy (via littlemiss)
I believe that in our constant search for security we can never gain any peace...
– Margaret Chase Smith (via myserendipities)
The number one reason why people give up so fast is because they tend to look at...
– Vaibhav Shah (via bitchville) (via nihilnoetia) (via myserendipities)
We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and...
– Maxwell Maltz
I’m scared as hell to want you, but here I am, wanting you anyway. And fear...
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
I’m living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there’s a...
– Audrey Niffenegger (The Time Traveler’s Wife) (via quotewhore) (via tryingtofindthewords)
Ninety percent of world’s woe comes from people not knowing themselves, their...
– Sydney J. Harris (via myserendipities)
The most authentic thing about us is our capacity to create, to overcome, to...
– Ben Okri (via thoughtsdetained)
Random sampling of six word memoirs on love:
Left him wrongly assuming...
– Courtesy of Smith Magazine
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thresca:
I try not to worry, I keep telling you that everything will be fine. This is my hope. But honestly, I’m scared too. I just don’t show it.
it makes me happy when you make the people who...
502. I wish we were happy together, in the same...
via: inwaves:merricat:everythingiwishfor
Yes. Horrible things DO happen. Happiness in the face of all of that?...
– grey’s anatomy
Bones break. Organs burst. Flesh tears. We can sew the flesh, repair the damage,...
– grey’s anatomy
I do believe that when we face challenges in life that are far beyond our own...
– Sasha Azevedo (via littlemiss)
letterboxlove:
52hearts:
In the middle of the night, I am drawn to your heartbeat, merely because it is louder than any other sound and it is the most comforting of them all.
but you’re not here and I am restless as ever.
It is not what you look at that matters, it’s what you see.
– Thoreau (via maluna) (via quote-book)
i am so glad and very
merely my fourth will cure
the laziest self of weary...
– (via eecummings)
Life is a process of becoming, a combination of states we have to go through....
– Anais Nin (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)