April 2011
“Happiness is not a destination. It is a mood, it is not permanent. It comes and...”
– One Tree Hill.
March 2011
why do we still want things even though we know we’ll never have them ?
“We enjoy warmth because we have been cold. We appreciate light because we have...”
– David Weatherford (via thresca)
acceptance.
I’ve learned a lot in the last few months. i can’t continue to over-analyze and focus on whats happened in my past. its done and over with. i can’t change anything I’ve done or fucked up on. i used to put myself down constantly for something that i could and can’t ever change, but then i realized that being depressed and angry at the world for something that is unchangeable is the biggest...
“Light is always more beautiful when it has to fight to be noticed, like light...”
“She believes in love and romance. She believes her life is going to be...”
– Can You Keep a Secret? | Sophie Kinsella
(via tuesbelle)
“Crowds can make one lonely, I always feel like an island in a sea of people.”
– Sidney Sheldon’s The Sands of Time (via quote-book)
“Sometimes we see what we want to, instead of what’s in front of us. And...”
– Change of Heart, Jodi Picoult
Submitted by: aisah andig
(via quote-book)
“I’m sure you got some things you’d like to change about yourself, but when it comes to me, I wouldn’t want to be anybody else.” -Who Says, Selena Gomez
“People are like stained-glass windows. They sparkle and shine when the sun is...”
– Elizabeth Kubler Ross (via quote-book)
“Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as secrets to reveal. A scar is...”
– Leonard Cohen
“Such is our way of thinking - we find beauty not in the in the thing itself but...”
– Junichiro Tanizaki, In Praise of Shadows (1933)
“We all want things to stay the same. Settle for living in misery because we’re...”
“You don’t need water to feel like you’re drowning, do you?”
– Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult | emptycupboard (via quote-book)
“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
– Leonardo DaVinci (via misswallflower)
“Norah: There’s this part of Judaism that I like. Tikun Olam. It said that the world is broken into pieces and everyone has to find them and put them back together.
Nick: Maybe we don’t have to find it. Maybe we are the pieces.”
— Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist
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“At the center of your being, you have the answer; you know who you are and what...”
– Lao Tzu (via crmerry)
“Knowing yourself is the beginning of all wisdom.”
– Aristotle (via kari-shma)
“We’re going nowhere, and we’re going there fast.”
– The Strokes: “I’ll Try Anything Once” (via quote-book)
“Anyone whose goal is “something higher” must expect some day to suffer vertigo....”
– Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being (1984)
“The man who said ‘I’d rather be lucky than good’ saw deeply into life. People are afraid to face how great a part of life is dependent on luck. It’s scary to think so much is out of one’s control. There are moments in a match when the ball hits the top of the net, and for a split second, it can either go forward or fall back. With a little luck,...
