“There is only one success—to be able to spend your life in your own way.”
—Christopher Morley (via kari-shma)
February 2012
1 post
January 2012
15 posts
“It is our light, not our darkness, that frightens us most.”
—Maryanne Williamson
“Above all, watch with glittering eyes the whole world around you because the greatest secrets are always hidden in the most unlikely places. Those who don’t believe in magic will never find it.”
—Roald Dahl (via kari-shma)
“We must always change, renew, rejuvenate ourselves; otherwise we harden.”
—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (via reluctantbuddha)
“The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.”
—- Gloria Leonard
“I don’t want to achieve immortality through my work. I want to achieve it by not dying.”
—- Woody Allen
“Men are like steel. when they lose their temper, they lose their worth.”
—- Chuck Norris
“Faith: not wanting to know what is true.”
—- Friedrich Nietzsche (1844-1900)
“Your mind is like a live camera that is constantly taking pictures of every single moment that comes onto you… So be a good photographer”
—David Acuna
“Nobody realizes that some people expend tremendous energy merely to be normal.”
—Albert Camus
“The aim of life is to live, and to live means to be aware, joyously, drunkenly, serenely, divinely aware”
—Henry Miller
“This pain, this dying, this is just normal. This is how life is. In fact, I realize, there never was an earthquake. Life is just this way, broken, and I am crazy for dreaming of something else”
—Miranda July (No One Belongs Here More Than You)
“If you would be a real seeker after truth, it is necessary that at least once in your life you doubt, as far as possible, all things.”
—Rene Descartes: If you would be… - The Quotations Page
“Our imagination flies — we are its shadow on the earth.”
—Vladimir Nabokov
“Desiring another person is perhaps the most risky endeavor of all. As soon as you want somebody—really want him—it is as though you have taken a surgical needle and sutured your happiness to the skin of that person, so that any separation will now cause a lacerating injury.”
—Elizabeth Gilbert (Committed: A Skeptic Makes Peace with Marriage)
“Love can come when you’re already who you are, when you’re filled with you. Not when you look to someone else to fill the empty space.”
—Deb Caletti
November 2011
1 post
“There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse is often closer to the truth.”
—Alan Moore (via imfantasyparade)
October 2011
1 post
“Get plenty of calcium. Be kind to your knees. You’ll miss them when they’re gone.”
—Mary Schmich, Sunscreen
August 2011
2 posts
“Art never comes from happiness.”
—Chuck Palahniuk, Choke (via ronniebruce)
“Life has been some combination of fairy-tale coincidence and joie de vivre and shocks of beauty together with some hurtful self-questioning.”
—Sylvia Plath (via kari-shma)
