“
A book is a portable universe.
- Caesar Barona
” —May 2013
3 posts
“Start every day with a smile and get it over with.”
— W.C. Fields
“You feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that’s okay that’s alright because we’re all meant to be like that at twenty-four.” ― David Nicholls, One Day”
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February 2013
15 posts
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.”
—Mahatma Gandhi
“it’s too late to run when you’re caught in the snare/
i’m tangled in the barb wire you hung around your bed/
honey, I’ll never learn/ it takes me so long/
when I finally fall, ya know they’re always gone” —Chris Pureka
i’m tangled in the barb wire you hung around your bed/
honey, I’ll never learn/ it takes me so long/
when I finally fall, ya know they’re always gone” —Chris Pureka
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.”
—Marilyn Monroe
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.”
—Andrea Gibson
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.”
—“Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist
“The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.”
—Leo Babauta
“I believe in pink. I believe that laughing is the best calorie burner. I believe in kissing, kissing a lot. I believe in being strong when everything seems to be going wrong. I believe that happy girls are the prettiest girls. I believe that tomorrow is another day and I believe in miracles.”
—Audrey Hepburn
“Even when I detach, I care. You can be separate from a thing and still care about it. If I wanted to detach completely, I would move my body away. I would stop the conversation midsentence. I would leave the bed. Instead, I hover over it for a second. I glance off in another direction. But I always glance back at you.”
—The Lover’s Dictionary, David Levithan
“The unexamined life is not worth living.”
—Socrates
“If you are to be saved by your own works, you must be absolutely perfect, in thought, and word, and deed, from the moment of your birth to the hour of your death.”
— Charles Spurgeon
“Do not let the behavior of others destroy your inner peace.”
— Dalai Lama” —
— Dalai Lama” —
“Strength doesn’t come from winning.Your struggles develop your strength. When you go through hardship and decide not to surrender, that is strength.”
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
“Do you not see how necessary a world of pains and troubles is to school an intelligence and make it a soul?
John Keats, Letters of John Keats” —
John Keats, Letters of John Keats” —
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.
Ernest Hemingway” —
Ernest Hemingway” —
January 2013
31 posts
“Picture yourself when you were five. In fact, dig out a photo of little you at that time and tape it to your mirror. How would you treat her, love her, feed her? How would you nurture her if you were the mother of little you? I bet you would protect her fiercely while giving her space to spread her itty-bitty wings. She’d get naps, healthy food, imagination time, and adventures into the wild. If playground bullies hurt her feelings, you’d hug her tears away and give her perspective. When tantrums or meltdowns turned her into a poltergeist, you’d demand a loving time-out in the naughty chair. From this day forward I want you to extend that same compassion to your adult self.”
- Kris Carr” —
- Kris Carr” —
“Don’t hang out with people who don’t love you. Don’t try to impress people who aren’t worth it. Don’t try to win people over who aren’t worth it. Focus on yourself, and focus on the people who are really awesome and who love you. Don’t hang out with people who make you feel like shit. Don’t spend your energy on them.”
Beth Ditto” —
Beth Ditto” —
“If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Henry David Thoreau” —
Henry David Thoreau” —
“Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky” —
Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky” —
“Satisfaction lies in the effort, not in the attainment. Full effort is full victory.
Mahatma Gandhi” —
Mahatma Gandhi” —
“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.
Henry David Thoreau” —
Henry David Thoreau” —
“it’s too late to run when you’re caught in the snare/
i’m tangled in the barb wire you hung around your bed/
honey, I’ll never learn/ it takes me so long/
when I finally fall, ya know they’re always gone
Chris Pureka” —
i’m tangled in the barb wire you hung around your bed/
honey, I’ll never learn/ it takes me so long/
when I finally fall, ya know they’re always gone
Chris Pureka” —
“We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Marilyn Monroe” —
Marilyn Monroe” —
“You are not weak just because your heart feels so heavy.
Andrea Gibson” —
Andrea Gibson” —
“It’s not hard to decide what you want your life to be about. What’s hard, she said, is figuring out what you’re willing to give up in order to do the things you really care about.
“Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist” —
“Bittersweet” by Shauna Niequist” —
“The way I define happiness is being the creator of your experience, choosing to take pleasure in what you have, right now, regardless of the circumstances, while being the best you that you can be.
Leo Babauta” —
Leo Babauta” —
“You are a fortunate person, indeed, if you can begin each day accepting the fact that during that day there will be ups and downs, good breaks and bad ones, disappointments, surprises, unexpected turns of events.”
— Roy Benjamin” —
— Roy Benjamin” —
“We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.
Aristotle” —
Aristotle” —
“When I touch her, my fingers don’t question what she is. My body knows who she is.
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods” —
Jeanette Winterson, The Stone Gods” —
“People will kill you over time, and how they’ll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like “be realistic.
Dylan Moran, What it is” —
Dylan Moran, What it is” —
“That’s why I like you… You are so busy being you that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.
John Green” —
John Green” —
“I wanna know if you bleed sometimes through other people’s wounds.
Andrea Gibson” —
Andrea Gibson” —
“Let me tell you this: if you meet a loner, no matter what they tell you, it’s not because they enjoy solitude. It’s because they have tried to blend into the world before, and people continue to disappoint them.
Jodi Picoult” —
Jodi Picoult” —
“Grown don’t mean nothing to a mother. A child is a child. They get bigger, older, but grown? What’s that suppose to mean? In my heart it don’t mean a thing.”
— Toni Morrison, Beloved” —
— Toni Morrison, Beloved” —
“A bore is someone who deprives you of solitude without providing you with company.”
— Oscar Wilde” —
— Oscar Wilde” —
“There are certain people who no longer belong in your life no matter how much you want them to. You know who they are. Let them go.”
- Robert Tew” —
- Robert Tew” —
“Life is short and unpredictable, don’t waste another minute on the people, places, and things that don’t make you happy.”
- Robert Tew” —
- Robert Tew” —
“Never miss an opportunity to put a smile on someone’s face. It might be the only one they get today.”
- Susan Gale” —
- Susan Gale” —
“Wisdom is the ability to keep your mouth closed at the right time so the wrong word doesn’t slip out.”
- Susan Gale” —
- Susan Gale” —
“Sometimes the big picture won’t come into focus until you’ve destroyed all the negative images.”
- Susan Gale” —
- Susan Gale” —
“When someone treats you like an option, help them narrow their choices by removing yourself from the equation. It’s that simple.”
- Robert Tew” —
- Robert Tew” —
“If you admire somebody, you should go ahead and tell them. People never get the flowers while they can still smell them.”
- Kanye West” —
- Kanye West” —
“Don’t ask why people keep hurting you. Ask yourself why you’re allowing it to happen.”
- Robert Tew” —
- Robert Tew” —
“That’s always seemed so ridiculous to me, that people want to be around someone because they’re pretty. It’s like picking your breakfast cereals based on color instead of taste.”
- John Green, Paper Towns” —
- John Green, Paper Towns” —
“People who know and love the same books you do, have the road map of your soul. I believe that.”
- Cassandra Clare” —
- Cassandra Clare” —
“When anybody, no matter how old they are, loses a parent, I think it hurts the same as if you were only five years old, you know? I think all of us are always five years old in the presence and absence of our parents.”
- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” —
- Sherman Alexie, The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” —
December 2012
35 posts
“Do your little bit of good where you are; its those little bits of good put together that overwhelm the world.”
- Desmond Tutu” —
- Desmond Tutu” —
“You don’t love someone for their looks, or their clothes, or for their fancy car, but because they sing a song only you can hear.”
- Oscar Wilde” —
- Oscar Wilde” —
