April 2009
60 posts
Once I knew only darkness and stillness…my life was without past or future…but a...
– Helen Keller (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
Later that day I got to thinking about relationships. There are those that open...
– Sex and the City (via quote-book)
Everyone has talent. What’s rare is the courage to follow it to the dark places...
– Erica Jong (via thresca) (via kari-shma)
Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you...
– E. Y. Harburg (via brokenmachine) (via kari-shma)
It’s nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in...
– Rodney Dangerfield (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma)
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on...
– Mary Manin Morrissey (via littlemiss) (via kari-shma) (via hit-or-miss)
I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended...
– Abraham Lincoln (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
If you can’t fly then run, if you can’t run the walk, if you can’t walk then...
– Martin Luther King Jr. (via justbesplendid) (via hit-or-miss)
All your parts are lovely.
playnice:
Pep talk: Knock out arms are getting a lot of attention these days. It’s a nice break for the old t&a. Every part of your body is worthy and valuable (and could probably pull down some serious jack if sold separately on the black market). Accentuate whatever feature you like. Invent your own eyebrow/ ear lobe/ middle finger showcasing style. As long as you back up your goodies with...
We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life...
– Joseph Campbell (via ktkatherine) (via kari-shma)
Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize...
– Lao Tzu (via need-nobody) (via soulgarden) (via ashadeofgrey) (via breathsoftruth) (via borgomani) (via kari-shma)
Laughter is the language of the soul.
– Pablo Neruda (via bonjouralexander) (via quote-book)
The secret of health for both mind and body is not to mourn for the past, worry...
– Buddha (via cwags) (via edatrix) (via borgomani) (via kari-shma)
Faced with crisis, the man of character falls back on himself. He imposes his...
– Charles de Gaulle (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
To err is dysfunctional, to forgive co-dependent.
– Berton Averre (via affremblequotes)
Learn to get in touch with the silence within yourself and know that everything...
– Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (via littlemiss)
It takes a great deal of courage to stand up to your enemies, but even more to...
– J.K. Rowling (via littlemiss)
Creativity makes a leap, then looks to see where it is.
– Mason Cooley (via affremblequotes) (via present) (via quote-book)
Although I feel like the center of the universe, I’m not. People aren’t...
– Gretchen Rubin - simply stated. (via jaim) (via present) (via quote-book)
The first step towards getting somewhere is to decide that you are not going to...
– John Pierpont (via littlemiss) (via thresca) (via quote-book)
Finish each day before you begin the next, and interpose a solid wall of sleep...
– Ralph Waldo Emerson (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is...
– Aldous Huxley (via brokenmachine) (via quote-book)
I am Me. In all the world, there is no one else exactly like me. Everything that...
– Virginia Satir (via littlemiss)
Even though you may want to move forward in your life, you may have one foot on...
– Mary Manin Morrissey (via littlemiss)
Far away there in the sunshine are my highest aspirations. I may not reach them,...
– Louisa May Alcott (via littlemiss)
Good relationships balance over time. This means that at any particular point in...
– Gregory Godek (via littlemiss)
If there is no struggle, there is no progress.
– Frederick Douglass (via littlemiss)
To succeed, you need to take that gut feeling in what you believe and act on it...
– Christy Borgeld (via littlemiss)
It’s nice to be the best, but not when being the best brings out the worst in...
– Rodney Dangerfield (via littlemiss)
If your success is not on your own terms, if it looks good to the world but does...
– Anna Quindlen (via littlemiss)
You are never given a wish without also being given the power to make it true....
– Richard Bach (via littlemiss)
The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.
– Stephen Covey (via littlemiss)
Never live in the past but always learn from it.
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
Don’t let us forget that the causes of human actions are usually immeasurably...
– Fyodor Dostoevsky, The Idiot (via psychotherapy) (via quote-book)
No cause is lost if there is but one fool left to fight for it.
– Pirates of the Carribbean: At World’s End (via filmquotes)
Rarely do we find men who willingly engage in hard, solid thinking. There is an...
– Martin Luther King, Jr. (via reluctantbuddha) (via quote-book)
Motivation alone is not enough. If you have an idiot and you motivate him, now...
– Jim Rohn (via affremblequotes)
If the world seems unfair or beyond our understanding, sublime places suggest...
– Alain De Botton(via tmblg)(via titlepage) (via hit-or-miss) (via quote-book)
The only man who can change his mind is a man that’s got one
– Edward Noyes Westcott (via kari-shma)
I’d rather lose myself in passion than lose my passion.
– Jacques Mayol (via kari-shma)
The thing is you make me happy. You walked in when it seemed like the rest of...
– (via megamazing) (via poignant) (via quote-book)