July 2012
50 posts
“We’re flawed because we want so much more. We’re ruined because we get these...”
– -Don Draper (via fromtinyislands)
“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you...”
– William Saroyan (via Little Reminders of Love)
“People disappeared, reappeared, made plans to go somewhere, and then lost each...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (via musingsinfemininity)
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“I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to...”
– Oprah Winfrey (via myquotelibrary)
Astair →
Painfully beautiful song.
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“I have learned a great truth of life. We do not succeed in spite of our...”
– Babbo. RPE.
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“If you can find a path with no obstacles, it probably doesn’t lead anywhere.”
– Frank A. Clark (via taylorbrody)
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“The less I needed, the better I felt.”
– Charles Bukowski
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“If you do not change direction, you may end up where you are heading.”
– Lao Tzu via @LoriMoreno
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“I want to write, but more than that, I want to bring out all kinds of things...”
– Anne Frank (via girlinlondon)
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“I have never found anybody who could stand to accept the daily demonstrative...”
– Sylvia Plath
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“And she wanted for a moment to hold and devour him, wanted his mouth, his ears,...”
– F. Scott Fitzgerald
“It takes a lot of courage to release the familiar and seemingly secure, to...”
– Alan Cohen
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Money can buy happiness
Studies have shown that money can buy happiness. The secret is how you spend it:
1) On experiences, not things
2) On others, not just yourself
“If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a...”
– Happy 195th birthday, Henry David Thoreau – the iconic transcendentalist on defining your own success.
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“We would be together and have our books and at night be warm in bed together...”
– Ernest Hemingway
I’ve posted this before, but I love it. And I can’t seem to find where I first posted it in my jumble of gems I’ve accumulated. I need to start tagging my posts.
“If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it...”
– Bernard Byer
You Are Not Special High School Commencement... →
via traviscorrigan:
You see, if everyone is special then no one is. If everyone gets a trophy, trophies become meaningless.
In our unspoken, but not-so-subtle darwinian competition with one another, which springs I think from our fear of our own insignificance - a subset of our dread of our own mortality; we have of…
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“We must have the courage to bet on our ideas, to take the calculated risk, and...”
– Maxwell Maltz
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“Not what you do, but how you do it, is the test of your capacity.”
