December 2010
34 posts
“Nothing happens unless first we dream”
– Carl Sandburg
“To make a bad day worse, spend it wishing for the impossible.”
– Calvin & Hobbes (via quote-book)
“Don’t bend; don’t water it down; don’t try to make it logical; don’t edit your...”
– Franz Kafka
“The world would be a better place if we all just admitted we like seeing a naked...”
– Dita Von Teese (via madamered)
“You were made perfectly to be loved - and surely I have loved you, in the idea...”
– Elizabeth Barrett Browning (via quotewhore)
“Never love anybody who treats you like you’re ordinary.”
– Oscar Wilde (via quotewhore)
“You have killed my love. You used to stir my imagination. Now you don’t even...”
– Oscar Wilde (via maudlinsmile)
“Not all who wander are lost, not all who like sex are sluts.”
– charisma (aka me / aka @capribos)
“Why is it,” he said, one time, at the subway entrance, “I feel I’ve known you so...”
– (via raindropsonmyheart)
“It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous...”
– An Autobiography, Agatha Christie (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“I was born to use my eyes
Dream with the sun and the skies
To float away in a...”
– Nick Drake (via thecardioid)
“There is a comfort in loneliness, a dullness that is fluorescent, like that in...”
– (via animapersa)
“Just be yourself. It doesn’t matter if it’s good enough for someone else.”
– Jimmy Eats World (via raindropsonredroses)
“When I get lonely these days, I think: So BE lonely. Learn your way around...”
– Elizabeth Gilbert (via itookadeepbreath)
“The best kind of rain, of course, is a cozy rain. This is the kind the anonymous...”
– Susan Allen Toth (via mariwashere)
“Education is an admirable thing, but it is well to remember from time to time...”
– Oscar Wilde (via wittysayings)
“What people really value is acquiring crap. Oprah’s show purports to be a lot...”
– Bill Maher: A Christmas Message for Oprah
“Life isn’t about how many people call you and it’s not about who you’ve dated,...”
“If you do not tell the truth about yourself you cannot tell it about other...”
– Virginia Woolf (via quelowat)
“We’re trained to see only male or female and to plot people into those...”
– Minnie Bruce Pratt (via revolutionnow)
“You have to get hurt. That’s how you learn. The strongest people out there, the...”
– (via soul-surfer)
“All great deeds and all great thoughts have a ridiculous beginning.”
– Albert Camus (via smcleish)
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
– Howard Thurman (via fusionet24)
“I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not...”
– Henry Ward Beecher (via capribos)
“Any woman who’s ever had to endure boorish sexist abuse when going about their...”
– Cath Elliott (via gauntlet)
“I had resolved to be less offended by human nature, but I think I blew it...”
– Hobbes (via calvinnhobbes)
“Dreams are today’s answers to tomorrow’s questions.”
– Edgar Cayce (via kari-shma)
“I often think that the night is more alive and more richly colored than the day.”
– Vincent Van Gogh (via quelowat)
“Life is too short to spend your precious time trying to convince a person who...”
– Zig Ziglar (via oceanofmind)
My 17-year-old self wrote me a letter
maudlinsmile:
Nothing was in vain. Because we fought, we stood up, we believed. Because there were times when we had nothing, and nobody to hold onto, but we came out strong. I know you have tried. I know you feel like you’re being left in an island, and all the ships are sailing.
Have no doubt, you are alone. Never forget it, you can only count on yourself. But you are all you need. The worst...
“I refuse to accept the idea that man is mere flotsam and jetsam in the river of...”
– Martin Luther King, Jr., born January 15, 1929 (via fuckyeahcapricorns)
“And no group of people, is as important as a single person. There’s no them...”
– I Wrote This For You: The New Singularity (via kari-shma)
