February 2011
Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going to get. But if you...
– Conan O’Brien (via 36974)
A person does not have to be behind bars to be a prisoner. People can be...
– Neem Korali Baba (via forevernotenough)
January 2011
You’re only as tall as your heart will let you be, and you’re only as small as...
– Nevershoutnever! - “On The Brightside” (via quote-book)
Words! Mere words! How terrible they were! How clear, and vivid, and cruel! One...
– Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray (1890)
Don’t get it right, just get it written.
– James Thurber (via writingadvice)
Joy and sorrow in this world pass into each other, mingling their forms and...
– Joseph Conrad, from “A Familiar Preface” to A Personal Record (via liquidnight)
I would rather be poor in a cottage full of books than a king without the desire...
– Thomas Babington Macaulay (via bookoasis)
When things are going well, I can’t write fast enough to keep up with my mind....
– Dylan Moran (via letmeeatpears)
This may sound too simple, but is great in consequence. Until one is committed,...
– W.H. Murray
Music melts all the separate parts of our bodies together.
– Anais Nin (via kari-shma)
The pure and simple truth is rarely pure and never simple.
– Oscar Wilde (via kari-shma)
Genius is more often found in a cracked pot than in a whole one.
– E.B. White (via libraryland)
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog...
– Elisabeth Elliot, Keep a Quiet Heart (via kevinkong)
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and...
– James Truslow (via kari-shma) (via quote-book) (via thresca) (via happythings, kari-shma)
What worries you masters you.
– Haddon W. Robinson (via letscrosstheuniverse)
If someone betrays you once, it’s their fault; if they betray you twice, it’s...
– Eleanor Roosevelt (via kari-shma)
Use what talents you possess: The woods would be very silent if no birds sang...
– Henry Van Dyke (via bellethestargazer)
You build on failure. You use it as a stepping stone. Close the door on the...
– Johnny Cash (via thoughtsdetained)
Remember as you go about your day that we who create are part of the solution...
– Judy Wise
If the guy you’re dating doesn’t seem to be completely into you, or you feel the...
– He’s Just Not That Into You (via kari-shma)
”Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think....
– A.A. Milne (via quote-book)
The faster we live, the less emotion is left in the world. The slower we live,...
– Stanko Abadžic (via hit-or-miss)
Who knows what women can be when they are finally free to become themselves.
– Betty Friedan
The wound is the place where the Light enters you.
– Rumi