February 2009
147 posts
“It takes courage to recognize the real as opposed to the convenient.”
– Notes on a Scandal
“It’s so much easier to believe what you need than what is the truth.”
– Georgia Rule
“If you don’t run your own life, somebody else will.”
– John Atkinson (via littlemiss)
“If you can do what you do best and be happy, you’re further along in life than...”
– Leonardo DiCaprio (via kari-shma)
Some more raw honesty.
havent-got-a-prayer:
This world is not now, and will never be, a fair place. Things happen and people like to try to figure out why. They use religion or philosophy to attempt to explain what they cannot understand, but there is no explanation. There are only events and the lessons we take from them.
I have tried so hard to take a lesson from certain things in my past. I may have found...
“Never refuse an invitation, never resist the unfamiliar, never fail to be polite...”
– The Beach
“Living with integrity means: Not settling for less than what you know you...”
– Barbara DeAngelis (via shambles)
“Just because you didn’t speak the facts out loud didn’t erase their existence....”
– Jodi Picoult (via littlemiss) (via hit-or-miss) (via earthquakesandheartache)
… it’s unfortunate that you’re so good at being silent.
(via 52hearts)
“Three things cannot be long hidden: the sun, the moon, and the truth.”
– Buddha (via kari-shma)
Today.
havent-got-a-prayer:
Each day is a series of choices which carry us to the sunset. Nothing is predetermined, and everything is subject to change. If you don’t like the way that your story is going, then switch up the plot. Do something spontaneous and unexpected. Take a few chances or talk to a stranger. Go somewhere you’ve never been before, even if it’s just outside your doorstep. Try...
“To let go isn’t to forget, not to think about, or ignore. It doesn’t leave...”
– Unknown (via littlemiss)
There are certain people who are not meant to fit...
lilyfirefly:
(via overflowing)
Losing a friend...
yourwrite:
is quite difficult, to say the least. You lose the bond, the secrets, the stories, and the togetherness. One thing you’ll never forget is the memories or the times shared together.
Losing a friend is one thing, but losing a friend who was detrimental to your well being is another. You still lose all of the qualities of a friend, but you gain a few more things. Peace of mind, for one,...
“Whatever it is you want, however you want to have it, no matter why you want to...”
– An email i received from The universe the other day… (via justlia)
“The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset...”
– Lost in Translation (via littlemiss)
“You set yourself up for happiness or you set yourself up for sadness. Either...”
– Jill Davis (via littlemiss)
“Positive and negative exist at the same time. You choose what you are going to...”
– Lynnette Cruz (via littlemiss)
“No matter where you run, you just end up running into yourself.”
– Breakfast at Tiffany’s
“It’s like the riddle of the Sphinx… why are there so many great...”
– Carrie Bradshaw (from Sex and the City)
“Everyone has three lives: a public life, a private life, and a secret life.”
– Gabriel García Márquez (via tloenuqbar) (via present) (via hit-or-miss)
Very true … My friends and family know about my private life. But I definitely have a “secret life” and aspects about myself that only a spouse or someone living with me would ever get to know. Even he would never know...
“Without trust, there can be no love.”
– Argentinean (Moulin Rouge 2000) (via thresca)
“When you tell a lie, you steal someone’s right to the truth.”
– The Kite Runner (via filmquotes)
Ugh, I hate liars. I hate when people lie to me or feed me partial truths. Everyone always has a right to the whole, complete truth. Lying and not being completely forthcoming is one of the most disrespectful things one person could do to another. I think it’s a...
“Character cannot be developed in ease and quiet. Only through experiences of...”
– Helen Keller (via reluctantbuddha) (via kari-shma)
“Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want their...”
– Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche (via skysignal) (via myserendipities)
“Life doesn’t turn out as we expect it to. When we come out into the world, our...”
– Elizabeth Aston (via littlemiss)
“Our lives improve only when we take chances - and the first and most difficult...”
– Walter Anderson (via littlemiss)
“You have enemies? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in...”
– Churchill (via beverlyhasablog) (via taters)
“When we were children, we used to think that when we were grown-up we would no...”
– Madeleine L’Engle (via littlemiss) (via breathsoftruth) (via dreameveryday) (via marjchun)
“The truth is rarely pure and never simple.”
– Oscar Wilde (via littlemiss)
“Maybe that’s just growing up. When you’re young, you tell yourself things like...”
– Adam Duritz (via littlemiss)
“When you come to the edge of all the light you know, and are about to step off...”
– ~barbara j winter (via gatekeeper)