January 2013
9 posts
“Memories warm you up from the inside. But they also tear you apart.”
—~ Haruki Murakami, Kafka on the Shore (via conflictingheart)
“It only takes one person to change your life: you.”
—Ruth Casey (via kari-shma)
“There are moments in our lives when we find ourselves at a crossroad, afraid, confused, without a roadmap. The choices we make in those moments can define the rest of our days. Of course when faced with the unknown, most of us prefer to turn around and go back.”
—Lucas Scott, One Tree Hill (via kari-shma)
“To be beautiful means to be yourself. You don’t need to be accepted by others. You need to accept yourself.”
—Thich Nhat Hanh (via kari-shma)
“The worst part of holding the memories is not the pain. It’s the loneliness of it.”
—The Giver by Lois Lowry (via quote-book)
March 2012
6 posts
“I’ll go out there and make my mistakes. I’ll fall down, get hurt, cry, laugh, love, and get back up. I’ll stand on the highest mountaintop and go into the deepest caverns. I’ll roam across the world, visit the moon and swim in outer space. I’ll let my imagination run wild and let my spirit soar. Why? Because when my life flashes before my eyes in those final moments, I want to have something worthwhile to watch, with plenty of love and laughter, good times and bad. I don’t want to regret a thing and I plan not to. Remember, it’s not usually the things you do that you regret, it’s the things you don’t do and leave unsaid. Laugh out loud. Cry in the rain. Love with all your heart and soul. Get hurt. Tell the truth. Go crazy. But never forget that you only get one shot. One shot at this day, one shot at this minute. One shot at this age. One shot at life. So make sure your life is one you will enjoy watching in your final moments.”
—Anna Floyd (via kari-shma)
“Don’t rely on someone else for your happiness and self worth. Only you can be responsible for that. If you can’t love and respect yourself - no one else will be able to make that happen. Accept who you are - completely; the good and the bad - and make changes as you see fit - not because you think someone else wants you to be different.”
—Stacey Charter (via kari-shma)
“All the art of living lies in a fine mingling of letting go and holding on.”
—Henry Ellis (via sartorialgirl)
“You may be deceived if you trust too much, but you will live in torment if you don’t trust enough.”
—Frank Crane (via sartorialgirl)
“We are exactly where we are meant to be. The universe has a way of letting things fall into place.”
—Anika Valentina Maric (via sartorialgirl)
“Through humor, you can soften some of the worst blows that life delivers. And once you find laughter, no matter how painful your situation might be, you can survive it.”
—Bill Cosby (via sartorialgirl)
December 2011
2 posts
“Things just don’t work out sometimes. That’s one of the simplest explanations in life. You can dwell on why something that didn’t or shouldn’t have happened, but it did. So just move on. Most people want reasons why things are the way they are, but you are simply holding on to the past when what you really need to do is moving forward. When things don’t work out, find something that will.”
—(via runawaytrain)
“Ask most people what they want out of life and the answer is simple - to be happy. Maybe it’s this expectation of wanting to be happy that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try to will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get - to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves. Instead we just keep smiling - trying to be the happy people we wish we were. Until it eventually hits us, it’s been there all along. Not in our dreams or our hopes but in the known, the comfortable, the familiar.”
—(via runawaytrain)
September 2011
1 post
“People think dreams aren’t real just because they aren’t made of matter, of particles. Dreams are real. But they are made of viewpoints, of images, of memories and puns and lost hopes.”
—Neil Gaiman (via julie911)
March 2011
1 post
“Ask most people what they want out of life, and the answer is simple: to be happy. Maybe it’s this expectation though, the wanting to be happy, that just keeps us from ever getting there. Maybe the more we try and will ourselves to states of bliss, the more confused we get, to the point where we don’t recognize ourselves. Instead, we just keep smiling, trying like hell to be the happy people we wish we were. Until eventually, it hits us: it’s been there all along. Not in our dreams or hopes, but in the known. The comfortable. The familiar.”
—Grey’s Anatomy (via doyouseekamy)
December 2010
3 posts
“Someday, somewhere - anywhere, unfailingly, you’ll find yourself, and that, and only that, can be the happiest or bitterest hour of your life”
— Pablo Neruda (via justbesplendid)
