July 2010
“I used to think I was the strangest person in the world but then I thought,...”
– Frida Kahlo (via afghanipoppy) (via somerset) (via loveyourchaos)
“one of the most tragic things I know about human nature is that all of us tend to put off living. we are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon-instead of enjoying the roses blooming outside our windows today.” — dale carnegie
in the end, we’re all alive.
“being vulnerable doesn’t have to be threatening. just have the courage to be sincere, open and honest. this opens the door to deeper communication all around. it creates self-empowerment and the kind of connections with others we all want in life. speaking from the heart frees us from the secrets that burden us. these secrets are what make us sick or fearful. speaking truth helps you...
“i’m selfish, impatient, and a little insecure. i’m out of control and at times i’m hard to handle but if you can’t handle me at my worst then you sure as hell don’t deserve me at my best.” — marilyn monroe
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“nothing is permanent in this wicked world, not even our troubles.” — charlie chaplin
“most people are other people. their thoughts are someone else’s opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.” — oscar wilde
“I can never read all the books I want; I can never be all the people I want and live all the lives I want. I can never train myself in all the skills I want. and why do I want? I want to live and feel all the shades, tones, and variations of mental and physical experience possible in life. and I am horribly limited.” — sylvia plath
“When you come to the edge of all that you know, you must believe one of two...”
– The Summer King, O.R. Melling (via fuckyeahliteraryquotes)
“the pain was so severe I felt nothing. blessed be shock. blessed be that part of us that protects us from too much pain and sorrow.” — life of pi
“the tragedy of it is that nobody sees the look of desperation on my face. thousands and thousands of us, and we’re passing one another without a look of recognition.” — henry miller
“I am but too conscious of the fact that we are born in an age when only the dull are treated seriously, and I live in terror of not being misunderstood.” — oscar wilde
“don’t ever say this to me: ‘are you okay?’ it’s like yeah, motherfucker, i’m fine.” — lindsay lohan
“there is no use trying, said alice; one can’t believe impossible things. I dare say you haven’t much practice, said the queen. when I was your age, I always did it for half an hour a day. why, sometimes I believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.” — Lewis Carroll
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“in retrospect, all revolutions seem inevitable. beforehand, all revolutions seem impossible.” — michael mcfaul (@tiffho)
“my courage always rises with every attempt to intimidate.” — pride and prejudice
“my justification is that most people my age spend a lot of time thinking about what they’re going to do for the next five or ten years. the time they spend thinking about their life, I just spend drinking.” — amy winehouse
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