December 2011
86 posts
“Every now and then you’ll meet someone new. Someone maybe your heart would have...”
– On Being Brave Enough To Start Again (via creatingaquietmind)
“It’s the little things she needs someone for, like someone to hold her hand at...”
– Marla Miniano (via middlenameconfused)
“When old age finds us
will all the cracks in your hands
match the cracks in...”
– Daily Haiku on Love by Tyler Knott Gregson (via tylerknott)
“It’s easy to look at people and make quick judgments about them, their present...”
– Sherrilyn Kenyon (via slekes)
“Let me guess. You want to know why I tried to kill myself. You want to know how...”
– For one more Day (via slekes)
“Statistically, the probability of any one of us being here is so small that the...”
– Lewis Thomas (via joshuakaufman)
“At first glance it may appear too difficult. Look again. Always look again.”
– Mary Anne Rodmacher via (via petitpoulailler)
“The most solid advice for a writer is this, I think: Try to learn to breathe...”
– William Saroyan (via nathanielswhite)
“Chances are, you’re not going to be alone forever.
Start spending more time...”
– The Greenness Of Your Grass (via creatingaquietmind)
“Mourning is not forgetting… It is an undoing. Every minute tie has to be untied...”
– Margery Allingham (via thoughtsdetained)
“It is a curious thing, the death of a loved one. We all know that our time in...”
– Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can’t Avoid (via thoughtsdetained)
“I still remember the day the world took you back & there was never time to...”
– Brian Andreas (via thoughtsdetained)
“Maybe that’s just growing up. When you’re young, you tell yourself things like...”
– Adam Duritz (via littlemiss) (via thoughtsdetained)
“You’ll be grateful that a long time ago this kind of person chose to be your...”
– Sloane Crosley, I Was Told There Would Be Cake (via thoughtsdetained)
“”The power to follow Your commands could never come from me. For if You had...”
– (via littlethingsaboutgod)
“Every day I discover more and more beautiful things. It’s enough to drive one...”
– Claude Monet (via lunch-poems)
“He used to say to me, ‘Have you ever noticed how grateful you are to see...”
– James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (via thoughtsdetained)
“There were different kinds of strength. I knew that now. It didn’t always...”
– Ann Aguirre (Enclave)
“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there’s nothing...”
– Edwin Morgan
“There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said...”
– Marcel Proust (via creatingaquietmind)
“If you don’t feel that
you are possibly on the edge
of humiliating yourself,...”
– John Irving (via creatingaquietmind)
“Choose Life over the other stuff. Get out of your head. Live. Dress up. Eat....”
– my friend, John Patrick Shanley (via emphasisadded)
MUST remember all of this.
(via momentswithmads)
“The heart is a muscle like any other and the best exercise you can do for it is...”
– I Wrote This For You (via l-amour-fou)
“So the greatest source of happiness is other people- and what does money do? It...”
– Eric Weiner, The Geography of Bliss: One Grump’s Search for the Happiest Places in the World (via thoughtsdetained)
“It hurts to let go. Sometimes it seems the harder you try to hold on to...”
– Henry Rollins (via black-wolves)
“There is always the temptation in life to diddle around making itsy-bitsy...”
– Annie Dillard (via thoughtsdetained)
“For two weeks, I lay awake at night and said Hail Marys over and over to stop my...”
– Rob Sheffield, Love Is a Mix Tape (via thoughtsdetained)
“Let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be happy; let...”
– A Tree Grows in Brookyln, Betty Smith (via creatingaquietmind)
“There will be no regrets in heaven for having lived “too much” for the kingdom...”
– - Paul Washer (via jarsofsunshine)
“How much of my time, energy, money, and attention can I possibly give to the...”
– Leslie Ludy (via littlethingsaboutgod)
“I had that feeling you get—there is no word for this feeling—when you are...”
– Dear Sugar, November 4, 2010 (via creatingaquietmind)
“You don’t die. You just… get really angry and then after you’re angry you hurt a...”
– Looking for Alibrandi by Melina Marchetta (via effyeahyoungadultlit)
“In your twenties you’re becoming who you’re going to be and so you might as well...”
– dear sugar, june 2010 (via creatingaquietmind)
“When obedience to God contradicts what I think will give me pleasure, let me ask...”
– little things about god: Elisabeth Elliot
“There comes a point when you either embrace who and what you are, or condemn...”
– Laurell K. Hamilton (via xenium)
““There were people who went to sleep last night,
poor and rich and white and...”
– Maya Angelou (via onherway)
““If you have time to chatter,
Read books.
If you have time to read,
Walk...”
– Nanao Sakaki (via onherway)
“When you go,
if you go,
And I should want to die,
there’s nothing...”
– Edwin Morgan, New Selected Poems
“When I examined my own life, I realized that I had been standing at the foot of...”
– Nathaniel J. Williams
“You will lose someone you can’t live without,and your heart will be badly...”
– Anne Lamott
“Help” is a prayer that is always answered. It doesn’t matter how you pray—with...”
– Anne Lamott (Plan B: Further Thoughts on Faith)
“When you’re a kid, they tell you it’s all “grow up. Get a job. Get married. Get...”
– Elton, Dr. Who, Love & Monsters (via creatingaquietmind)
“This was when I learned that you have to give up your life as you know it to get...”
– Kelly Cutrone (via fckyeahmemories)
“DEPTH OF FIELD
“The camera relieves us of the burden of memory …
records in...”
– Anne Michaels (via saneasalice)