February 2011
45 posts
January 2011
47 posts
“When we honestly ask ourselves which person in our lives mean the most to us, we...”
– Henri J.M. Nouwen
“There is nothing I would not do for those who are really my friends. I have no...”
– Jane Austen (Northanger Abbey)
“If you’re gonna be two-faced at least make one of them pretty.”
– Marilyn monroe
“Don’t waste your time with fear.. Fear won’t keep you safe from being hurt.”
– Tiffanie DeBartolo
“I can be changed by what happens to me. But I refuse to be reduced by it.”
– Maya Angelou
“What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how...”
– Gabriel García Márquez
“Things change. Stuff happens. Life goes on.”
– Elizabeth Scott
“We can’t be as good as we’d want to, so the question then becomes, how do we...”
– Nick Hornby
“We are so out of time. Why was it I could never find your rhythm?”
– Chris (via themusician)
“Finish every day and be done with it. You have done what you could; some...”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson
“The greatest mistake you can make in life is to be continually fearing you will...”
– Elbert Hubbard
“You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer...”
– Dr. Seuss (Oh, the Places You’ll Go!)
“We read to know that we are not alone.”
– C.S. Lewis
“There is never a time or place for true love. It happens accidentally, in a...”
– Sarah Dessen (The Truth about Forever)
“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”
– Albert Einstein (via kari-shma)
“It’s time to be blunt.
I’m forty-three years old, true, and I’m a writer now,...”
– via likepolishingfirewood)
Fantastic encapsulation of the power/need/truth of stories.
“It’s not a lie; it’s a story. Lies are untrue. Stories are unreal, but they’re...”
– paraphrased from The Cinderella Deal. Reminiscent of The Things They Carried. All these years later, I still love that idea. (via likepolishingfirewood)
These two lines encapsulate what my entire English thesis was about!
“I am enough of an artist to draw freely upon my imagination. Imagination is more...”
– Albert Einstein
“If you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember anything.”
– Mark Twain
“Someday, we’ll run into each other again, I know it. Maybe I’ll be older and...”
– Brielle Zevin (via thediarists)
“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and it may be necessary from time to time...”
– Jim Henson
“We spend January 1st. walking through our lives, room by room, drawing up a list...”
– Ellen Goodman (via julie911)