January 2010
29 posts
“I just want to be wonderful.”
– Marilyn Monroe (via kari-shma)
“Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I’m not sure...”
– Albert Einstein (1879-1955) (via tapwaterjackson)
“That’s the whole problem with science. You’ve got a bunch of empiricists trying...”
– Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) (via tapwaterjackson)
“I’m just consistently inconsistent.”
– Middle of Nowhere, Hot Hot Heat (via kari-shma)
Should be my motto…
“There is only ever one answer to the question what did you do with your life,...”
– Marianne Wiggins, The Shadow Catcher (pp. 306-7)
Thanks to my dad, who emailed this to me. :)
(via juliaallison)
“The only courage that matters is the kind that gets you from one moment to the...”
– Mignon McLaughlin (via julie911)
“Wit is educated insolence.”
– Aristotle (384-322 B.C.) (via tapwaterjackson)
Yes. Yes. Yes.
“I’m lazy. But it’s the lazy people who invented the wheel and the bicycle...”
– Lech Walesa Polish labor leader, politician, & reformer (1943 - ) (via tapwaterjackson
My kind of leader.
“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it....”
“I dream. Sometimes I think that’s the only right thing to do.”
– Haruki Murakami (via kari-shma)
“Happiness is the ability to appreciate and be truly aware of all the good things...”
– Jay Towell (via julie911)
Striving to achieve this. I have so much in my life to be grateful for. Every once in a while I need to remember that.
“When love exists, nothing else matters, not life’s predicaments, not the fury of...”
– Isabel Allende (via kari-shma)
“You know what? Fuck beauty contests. Life is one fucking beauty contest after...”
– Dwayne - Little Miss Sunshine
Public vs Private
I haven’t written a post in quite some time for many reasons: laziness, an inability to articulate my thoughts, insecurity about my writing and so on. But there is another issue that causes me to hesitate before I press the publish button. How much should I say? My life currently revolves around public figures. And I have never trusted my judgment when it comes to being discrete. Web 2.0 has...
“You may not be her first, her last, or her only. She loved before she may love...”
– Bob Marley (via kari-shma)
“It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;— it is disposition...”
– Jane Austen (via kari-shma).
This feels particularly relevant to my life right now.
“Coffee is a lot more than just a drink. It’s something happening, an event, a...”
– Gertrude Stein (via julie911)
“I’m looking for love. Real love. Ridiculous, inconvenient, consuming,...”
– Sex and the City (via kari-shma)
“Maybe that’s what it all comes down to. Love, not as a surge of passion, but as...”
– Emily Giffin (via kari-shma)
“Who you want to be is not nearly as important as who you are right now.”
– via: I wrote it for you (via kari-shma)
“Writing is a form of therapy. Sometimes I wonder how all those who do not write,...”
– Graham Greene (via kari-shma)
“Tell the truth. It’s the easiest thing to remember.”
– David Mamet (via kari-shma)
“If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than...”
– Jacques Cousteau (via julie911)
“There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power....”
– Washington Irving (via kari-shma)
“The only reason I don’t let you go is because you said you would always be...”
– [via: Boy Meets Love] (via kari-shma)
“So never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be...”
– The Beach (via kari-shma)